It's a question I asked a long time ago, but who knows how many new members have joined since then. I'm up all kinds of hourse due to sleep difficulties, so wondering who else might be around during the witching hours.
It's a question I asked a long time ago, but who knows how many new members have joined since then. I'm up all kinds of hourse due to sleep difficulties, so wondering who else might be around during the witching hours.
My sleep pattern is generally okay, I get periods where I can't shut my mind down if that makes sense
I am recently retired after 32 years of teaching. I have reverted to my old summer schedule (when I had summers off) and will sleep from 10 AM to about 4 PM. I do some of best work with graphic novels and writing from about 6 PM to 6 AM.
I still have insomnia although it's not as bad as when I was teaching. In recent days, I've started napping from 6 PM to 8 PM.
Sometimes I can be up at the witching hour
I am the O.N. Which stands for original night owl.
I'm pretty much always up at night, cause I'm an obsessive-compulsive thinker, so my brain won't switch off unless I'm physically tired. Thinking at night is easier because of the lack of noises and other distractions. I first found this forum two years ago and then I apparently forgot about it until yesterday.
ok that's fine and I never have any plans so far we are good and I always will be here too so I have chores first then I talk now
Yeah I'm pretty comfortable with it. Does mean for any employment plans I should probably stick to things with flexible hours, though.
so that's ok and its does not matter how late we stay up I'm a night owl too sometimes I stay up even later at night too
There's a lot of things we realise, I think, that we always thought were normal, but are actually symptoms of our ND conditions. I never knew sleep came that easily to most people. Never realised how bad my memory is until people started referring to conversations that I don't remember happening.
That is what I've heard too, and it might be worth checking into.
I always struggled to switch off at night and go to sleep, I almost fight to stay awake, but...
I've found coffee before bed knocks me out. Seems counterintuitive, but might be something to do with the "suspected" ADHD that was mentioned when I got my Autism diagnosis. I just put it down to PDA, obsessive focus and other stuff causing me to show similar symptoms to ADHD, like forgetting things, half finished tasks etc
Having realised it seems to calm me I've played around with tea and coffee at different times. Tea seems to help focus but acts more like a stimulant, assumedly from the theanine and a low dose of caffeine together, sleeping isn't as easy if I have tea in the evening. where as coffee calms my racing brain and makes me slightly "dopey" , I assume that's the caffeine.
Makes me wonder if I might have ADHD too, given they say stimulants are a treatment for it and I find they do help me focus a while heap more.
I think it can be related. Stomach issues - if you get bloating/churning that keeps you awake look into reducing FODMAPs (you can do an elimination diet which finds out which of the FODMAPs you are sensitive to. This university is the best site to look at: monashfodmap dot com. It changed my life. They also have an app, so you can look up foods. All real science too.
It doesn't help with rumination though, obviously, which also keeps me awake.
I struggle to sleep my whole life. I often hear “what is the problem just close your eyes and sleep!” For me if I sleep good one night without waking up, it’s a really good night and it happens rarely. Intestinal problems also accompany me since ever. Interesting if it has anything to do with autism or nothing at all.
Yes unfortunetly quite a bit since the past couple of years. When I am medicated at night it lead me to wandering about my flat in my kitchen which can be dangerous and make feel vulnerable when i start doing in the night I don't want to like preparing food. I have had to put a lock on my kitchen door.
Loud electric kettle noises? Or does your family have a super strong sense of smell? Being up all night I get hungry at irregular hours, and have found out just how strong my family's sense of smell is from two floors away (my parents sleep in the loft).
Yeah shopping first thing in the morning definitely feels best. You also get the staff right as they're starting their shift, so the energy is often more relaxed. I could browse around, pick up a book, stop at a Greggs for what I guess would be dinner, and throw some pastry to the birds.
That certainly is another stone on the pile, I can see that. Were you able to meet with that person you were looking to reconnect with?
