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Sorry if this has been asked before but does having aspergers/austism affect or change sleeping patterns? I have just read an article that states children with aspergers don't produce enough melatonin. Does anyone know if that continues on into adulthood?. I take hours to get to sleep every night and on average I wake up 5 to 6 times a night.

I can't say I have trouble getting to sleep, Confused. It takes me 10-20 minutes to fall asleep after I go to bed. I usually wake up in the morning, about 7.

The racing thoughts problem keeps me up.

I sometimes have trouble getting comfortable to go to sleep, but once I am comfortable I fall asleep pretty quickly, less than 20 minutes

A racing mind along with promises i haven't kept.

TheSunAlsoRises

This is quite a common discussion point. A lot of aspies report trouble getting to sleep.

I dont drop off very easily at all, and can wake up at the slightest disturbance. I normally go to bed somewhere between 11pm and 3am and then wake up around 6:29 If I get to sleep early (ie. 11) than I'm quite likely to wake up at around 1:40 for a while. If I go to sleep later (1:30) then I might wake up at 4:20. I have been very precise with times, but it's surprising how often this is the case.

I do tend to fall asleep easier on a Friday evening and sleep in saturday, so my average sleep a week tends to even out s little.

Jason

I have recently been having sleep problems which is an unusal thing for me unless I am suffering extreme stress [which I don't think I am].
I am of the belief that Jupiter and Venus are the culprits in the whole matter.

I go through cycles. I get a lot of early morning waking, up at 4:30 or 5:00 then tired for the rest of the day. Other times I go to bed straight from work and can't seem to get enough sleep. If I am absorbed in making music or studying I can stay up all night. Sleep is pretty messed up most of the time. It's exhausting

I can't maintain a sleep cycle. I can't force myself to sleep at a certain time, and I can't get up at a preset time if I'm not finished sleeping, otherwise I feel sick/dizzy all day afterwards.

If I need to be awake at a certain time, I need to know several days in advance, so I can try to stay up later and later each day before the deadline, going to sleep later usually means waking up later, so I do that in increments until I've cycled through to being up at the right time.

I can't maintain that at all though. After a couple of days I'll be awake at some different set of hours again.

I sleep like a baby; I wake up every half-hour and cry.

The amount of time it takes for me to get to sleep seems to depend on how long a day it's been. Past few years my schedule has for the most part been going to bed around 4 am and waking up around 2 pm, though on mondays I get up at 9 or 10 am to take out the garbage. On those days I can definitely feel a difference in having been up longer.

I slept 12 hours last night. XD

Um, I don't have trouble falling asleep most of the time. But I have trouble waking up. Always have. It kind of traumatized me for life.