Mornings

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Interesting topic! I have always (even as a baby) been terrible at mornings. I usually feel drunk when I wake up (but I must say that I am not!) and sleep in frequently, often turning off alarms in my sleep, even sleepwalking to turn off alarms strategically placed on the other side of the room, and having open-eyed totally coherent conversations with people sent to wake me. I also have difficulty even going to bed, let alone falling asleep, before midnight. I have a job that involves starting off every day with a 5.30am meeting - not good. While I can get ready quickly (except breakfast - I always leave that until later in the morning) I really don't switch on properly for at least two hours after waking up. I can remember once waking up feeling refreshed and rested, and spent the entire day creeped out by how bizarre it was.

Is this common for Aspies to have sleep and in particular waking problems?

i only get up when i am tired of being in bed.
that is usually 11am precisely if i am not compelled to get up earlier.

i usually decide i can not be bothered with much at 3am, and then i go to bed.

i do not like to go to bed at first because the transition from having all the lights on to almost darkness is a large change to my sensorium. i switch the tv on in the bedroom and choose an old black and white boring movie.
i then roll away from the TV, and the drone of their 1940's voices, and the gentle grey flicker on the walls lulls me to sleep.

then i wake at about 9am and i hear the news on my tv and i take not much interest and then i go back to sleep within 5 mins.
at 10:45 am, i rewake and lay in bed for 15 minutes until i feel done with being in bed.

then i switch off the TV and the air conditioner and wander out into the lounge room and open the blinds and stare blankly outside while leaning on my podium for about 10-15 minutes.

i watch the little butterflies fluttering around the clover in the yard with no thought at all in my head.

slowly i conceive of the need for breakfast, and then i spend 30 mins or so in refining what i feel like to eat (intermittently with blankness).

after i have eaten my breakfast, all the memories of what i was so interested in the day before come back, and i get slowly excited back to full charge, and continue with my matters of interest.

that is a day when i have no work on. i work from home, and i have only monthly deadlines, aso i can do my paid work whenever i wish.

My sleep pattern is so messed up thanks to the guys I have as roomates... Even when I get to sleep, my sleep is not refreshing enough... I still get up early every morning, roughly 7am... If I were at home, my sleep pattern would be in bed by 11, up by 6/7