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Sleep Tips for Adults

Skybird

I have AS and have always had trouble sleeping but just recently it has got much worse. it's really beginning to annoy me and people have commented about how tired I'm looking these days.

I have two issues. One is falling asleep and the other is frequent waking during the night.

I've seen loads of tips aimed at helping kids on the spectrum to sleep but I can't find that much for adults. I have a routine of what time I go to bed and get up and as you can imagine, I stick to that religiously but I'm not sure what else I can do.

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  • Hi,

    I have always struggled with sleep. A few years ago, I decided sod the age appropriateness the sleeping place I wanted was enclosed. I wanted to feel safe, (and my partner and then career also wanted to know I was safe).

    So we went to a local carpenter and I commissioned a custom made bed. It's basically a giant cot with a drop side To fit a single mattress. It's made of 11cm square pine and is incredibly strong.

    I have never slept better, I still don't sleep well (the irony of writing this at 12:14am) but I sleep so much better.

    So it sounds obvious but, do you feel safe I'm bed? I didn't, now I do :)

    Also a quick note on sleeping positions. did you know you are allowed to sleep in any position? I thought for a while that the only permissable sleeping positions where either exactly on my front arms down my side, or on my back with my arms down my side. It truns out that I can sleep however I like and no one cares. If some one told me that 15 years ago that would have been a great improvement.

    cheers,

    Jamie + Lion

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  • Hi,

    I have always struggled with sleep. A few years ago, I decided sod the age appropriateness the sleeping place I wanted was enclosed. I wanted to feel safe, (and my partner and then career also wanted to know I was safe).

    So we went to a local carpenter and I commissioned a custom made bed. It's basically a giant cot with a drop side To fit a single mattress. It's made of 11cm square pine and is incredibly strong.

    I have never slept better, I still don't sleep well (the irony of writing this at 12:14am) but I sleep so much better.

    So it sounds obvious but, do you feel safe I'm bed? I didn't, now I do :)

    Also a quick note on sleeping positions. did you know you are allowed to sleep in any position? I thought for a while that the only permissable sleeping positions where either exactly on my front arms down my side, or on my back with my arms down my side. It truns out that I can sleep however I like and no one cares. If some one told me that 15 years ago that would have been a great improvement.

    cheers,

    Jamie + Lion

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