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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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  • Sleep has always been a bugger for me, from a young age (i'm 21 these days). laying back in the dark and waiting for sleep to happen never sat well with me and i often just thought, endlessly about anything at all, in the end i've found that audiobooks give me something to focus on without being enough of a distraction to keep me awake (unless its a new one, but i simply don't use those for sleep).

    21 and i still need audiobooks to get me to sleep. Aspergers is, if nothing else, disparaging of ones supposed maturity.

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  • Sleep has always been a bugger for me, from a young age (i'm 21 these days). laying back in the dark and waiting for sleep to happen never sat well with me and i often just thought, endlessly about anything at all, in the end i've found that audiobooks give me something to focus on without being enough of a distraction to keep me awake (unless its a new one, but i simply don't use those for sleep).

    21 and i still need audiobooks to get me to sleep. Aspergers is, if nothing else, disparaging of ones supposed maturity.

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