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Struggle to sleep after busy day around others

Autismman

When I’m around others for long periods of time, not close family as such but colleagues etc I often feel too wired to properly shut off at bed time. I get what I consider to be a delayed reaction to all the stimuli, as if I walk around in a protective bubble all day then all of a sudden when night approaches the thoughts start knocking at the door of my mind. I run over conversations, try to guess what someone may have thought of my greetings, did I appear weird at all in some way? Are others judging me or am I just over-thinking?; Mr over-thinking is my life long friend. Usually the next day when I have slept these thoughts and concerns lessen.

Parents

  • That’s pretty much me, although being retired, the running over conversations doesn’t happen so much now as I tend to talk mostly to people I know and trust. I could never understand why all the rush of everything that needed my mental attention suddenly manifested itself at bedtime. I tried setting an hour for thinking about such things earlier in the evening, but it only very occasionally worked.

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  • That’s pretty much me, although being retired, the running over conversations doesn’t happen so much now as I tend to talk mostly to people I know and trust. I could never understand why all the rush of everything that needed my mental attention suddenly manifested itself at bedtime. I tried setting an hour for thinking about such things earlier in the evening, but it only very occasionally worked.

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