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Wondering if I'm the only one...

Sgt Romeo

Morning,

I am currently on the night shift with the emergency services.  This could be contributing to my problems, but I doubt it.  I am hoping to be diagnosed soon with Aspergers after a trip to my GP who agreed AS could be the root of all my problems.

For years (probably about 10) I have had problems with sleep.  Every day I wake up so tired, like I could go straight back to sleep immediately.  On occasions I have fallen asleep at work.  I only occasionally have problems falling asleep, and sleep from anywhere between 5 and 12 hours a night.  No matter how much sleep I get, I still wish I could stay in bed until I'm feeling fully refreshed.  I can sleep no matter what time it is (ie I have sometimes gone back to bed after breakfast & slept for another few hours).

Am I the only one, or is this common for AS people?

Thanks,

Jess

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  • I suffered right through my working life from fade outs or falling asleep or visibly failing to concentrate when listening to someone. I didn't have the benefit of a diagnosis until late, and no other medical explanations were forthcoming.

    I had difficulty keeping alert when someone was talking to me. Curiously my efforts to correct this seems to have given many people the impression I was a good listener. I'd keep drifting out of consciousness and have to struggle to pick up the thread. A lot of this was after a lot of interactive engagement, so with hindsight it was clearly a sensory overload response.

    A feeling of my eyes dragging seems to signal the problem

    Also if not sufficiently stimulated, and especially in hot stuffy working environments, I was nodding off, and passing time semi asleep. That probably happens to a lot of people anyway, but I think there was an AS element. I often had to read and synthesise or re-work texts and this activity just couldn't keep my attention. I felt very guilty at the time, often doing hardly anything in a day, and had to try all sorts of things to increase the interest.

    The strange thing is I don't think it was loss of sleep. It was just a tendancy to switch out, but this took another form.  I'm inclined to fade out altogether, but was several times checked out for epilepsy and it is not due to that. It can happen when walking about, the sound around switches out, and then suddenly switches back in again. I think it is again a sensory overload reaction - I cannot filter out background, but instead switch off entirely.

    I have found that getting regular short break to move around, go on an errand or make an excuse to get outside and moving around helps.

    Don't know if this is in any way similar to what you experience, just offering a perspective.

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  • I suffered right through my working life from fade outs or falling asleep or visibly failing to concentrate when listening to someone. I didn't have the benefit of a diagnosis until late, and no other medical explanations were forthcoming.

    I had difficulty keeping alert when someone was talking to me. Curiously my efforts to correct this seems to have given many people the impression I was a good listener. I'd keep drifting out of consciousness and have to struggle to pick up the thread. A lot of this was after a lot of interactive engagement, so with hindsight it was clearly a sensory overload response.

    A feeling of my eyes dragging seems to signal the problem

    Also if not sufficiently stimulated, and especially in hot stuffy working environments, I was nodding off, and passing time semi asleep. That probably happens to a lot of people anyway, but I think there was an AS element. I often had to read and synthesise or re-work texts and this activity just couldn't keep my attention. I felt very guilty at the time, often doing hardly anything in a day, and had to try all sorts of things to increase the interest.

    The strange thing is I don't think it was loss of sleep. It was just a tendancy to switch out, but this took another form.  I'm inclined to fade out altogether, but was several times checked out for epilepsy and it is not due to that. It can happen when walking about, the sound around switches out, and then suddenly switches back in again. I think it is again a sensory overload reaction - I cannot filter out background, but instead switch off entirely.

    I have found that getting regular short break to move around, go on an errand or make an excuse to get outside and moving around helps.

    Don't know if this is in any way similar to what you experience, just offering a perspective.

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