I can't sleep without pills. When I was younger (around 7 or so) I never fell asleep before 11 at night. When my parents told me about my AS (as I had been diagnosed when I was 7, but wasn't told until I was 10), I think that's when the pills came out and by the Liesmith, they WORKED. Every night at dinner (around 6), i would take a pill and 3 hours later (9:30), I took myself off to bed and slept until 7 in the morning. This kept up until I was 20, when the maker of the pills stopped making them for no good reason. Luckily, my mother had bought a bottle of the double strength pills and I spent an hour learnining how to cut pills in half with a knife. Those lasted for about 200 days and now I'm on other, weaker pills because no company had the lobes to take up the recipe and make generics of it. My newer sleeping pills don't work as well, since I can resist them without trying.
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"What I'd thought I'd do was, I'd pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes"