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Tools For Waking Up?

NAS73163

I have been terribly struggling waking up in the morning without help. I have an alarm that wakes me up at my lightest point of sleep, getting plenty of sleep, have tried setting many multiple alarms, even when I wake up I can fall back to sleep after I eat or shower. It is very debilitating relying on others for this but I feel really stuck. I NEED to get up early for my job (hour and 20 mins drive) so I need time to drive there, get ready, and some time to walk in ect. Like most autistics I struggle prioritizing, deadlines, and sensing what is important. When I am half conscious in the morning this is 10x worse, sometimes I just want to go back into my dream (I have vivid dreams) and don't think about the fact I have stuff to do. I have been told I just need more motivation, to just DO IT, or that I must not care. But I do!! But executing just getting up is just so... HARD?? It feels so simple and my friends do it, I need to too. Any help would be amazing

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  • I am replying for this as an autistic mother of an autistic adult who I have struggled to wake up since he was about 11. He is now twenty and struggles to go to bed and then sleeps like he is in a coma so is very hard to wake up and it is soooo stressful for me. I am the opposite and find it hard to stay asleep! It is nice to know that this is an autistic thing 

  • in reply to NAS73335

    My mum often remarked that it was like trying to wake me from a coma and kept wondering if I was ill when trying to wake me up for school. She did get very worried.

    Now I am in my 30s and I am still the same. I seem to just need more sleep. I don't know if it's to recover from burnout, or due to neurological differences in the brain (e.g. autistic people have more grey matter and more cerebrospinal fluid, which is what cleans the brain during sleep).

    I am notoriously difficult to wake up. One time I was camping in a tent with someone and there was an enormous thunderstorm with lightning outside, and because she was afraid she tried to wake me, but she couldn't. Shaking me, shouting my name, even lifting my eyelids up. She said it was like I was dead and it scared her, but that's just what I am like when asleep.

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  • in reply to NAS73335

    My mum often remarked that it was like trying to wake me from a coma and kept wondering if I was ill when trying to wake me up for school. She did get very worried.

    Now I am in my 30s and I am still the same. I seem to just need more sleep. I don't know if it's to recover from burnout, or due to neurological differences in the brain (e.g. autistic people have more grey matter and more cerebrospinal fluid, which is what cleans the brain during sleep).

    I am notoriously difficult to wake up. One time I was camping in a tent with someone and there was an enormous thunderstorm with lightning outside, and because she was afraid she tried to wake me, but she couldn't. Shaking me, shouting my name, even lifting my eyelids up. She said it was like I was dead and it scared her, but that's just what I am like when asleep.

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