To much sleep

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So I go to sleep at around 12:00 and I get up at 6:00 PM today, its not like I'm sick but I was just so sleepy. Sometimes I sleep like this and I will stay up for a few hours then go to bed at around nine or ten and get up like normal at 6:00 AM like normal. What could cause this abnormal sleeping pattern???

couple of things can cause this...sleep apnoea, when you do sleep you stop breathing and your body gets startled and you "wake up" in your sleep and quickly return to sleep and the rest derived from a sleep interrupted with this pattern is minimal making affected individuals tired and proned to lethargy. causing them to sleep for longer or during the day.

Sleep apnea is common amongst those with AS.

the other cause can be depression.

thirdly.
people with AS tend to not have the filters that non-AS people have in their brains so that everything we see, hear, feel smell, touch taste etc. is absorbed and registers, it is why we get overwhelemed a lot. those who learn to adapt also have tiredness and lack of sleep issues, the mental cognition required to take in all of our environment, unfiltered causes tiredness, mental fatigue, it is the bodies way of saying...stop, slow down, rest, im overloaded.

What do yo mean by the last one??? I don't quite understand.

ok people with As have slightly different neurology to non As people and a lot of us do not have the filters that filter out sensory input. we take it all in and this is very tiring for us, for our brains, it places us on constant sensory overload and the body switches off, shutts down and wants to sleep.

to use an example when a bear is chasing you through a forest , most people run for their lives. most AS people will run as well. But a non-AS person will just run and will focus on getting away from bear really quickly. an AS person will run but will be distracted and confused by the trees the grass, the hills, the sun, everything, we will count the trees turn around and estimate the weight of the bear, smell the pinecones, everything upto the point that we will notice how bright our own blood is when the bear kills us and our last word will be, it was venous blood as it was dull and the oxyhaemaglobin wasnt reflecting the light as bright as oxygenated blood.

while this is a demonstration to show how an AS mindset works it illustrates the enourmous mental effort we have burdened ourselves with just to perform a day to day task, without these filters we get very tired we get overloaded, we need sleep.

I think I fall under that category except if a bear is chasing me I would run for dear life screw the pine cones.

yes it was an analogy.
if a bear was chasing me i would run into a disgruntled ex-wives of AS men conference.
it could distract the bear but i suspect the wives would give me a worse fate.

LoL

Any clue why my brain would need over 14 hours of sleep?? Some days I have slept almost a full day not sick mind you its not normal then I get chewed out by my social worker person thingy wingy I don't know what her correct title is you need to sleep my everyone else but I can't. Some nights I don't sleep then when I go to sleep I wake up like normal then sometimes I go to sleep like normal and sleep almost 18 hours and every grrr.

Another explanation is that those of us with AS don't realize how much stuff we actually do. You could be tired because not only is your mind that tired, but also your body.

Also, if you are depressed, stressed, or still under the age of 25.

Well I'm only 19 but its still abnormal to sleep over 14 hours a day or stay up over 18 hours without getting tired.