Re: daughter functions better with lack of sleep

[Guest guest]

Yes my daughter has a sleep issue and yes she is calmer when she is sleep

deprived.

Not that I do lol

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Berry wrote:

> Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has noticed if there children

> with autism seem to function better with less sleep. For instance my

> daughter woke up at 3:00 in the morning and although I was encouraging

> her to go back to sleep she kept getting up. So when getting ready for

> school and on our drive to school she just seemed so calm and happy.

> This is not the first time for this. It's almost funny to me even

> though I am extremly tired. I wonder what is going on with her. I just

> want to know everything she is thinking. I wonder if this slows her

> mind down some where she can concentrate better.

>

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my daughter wanders the house even on meds she seems to function ok usually. I

put her to bed early. 9pm is early for her. she would be up at the crack of dawn

Subject: daughter functions better with lack of sleep

To: Autism_in_Girls

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 2:51 PM

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has noticed if there children

with autism seem to function better with less sleep. For instance my

daughter woke up at 3:00 in the morning and although I was encouraging

her to go back to sleep she kept getting up. So when getting ready for

school and on our drive to school she just seemed so calm and happy.

This is not the first time for this. It's almost funny to me even

though I am extremly tired. I wonder what is going on with her. I just

want to know everything she is thinking. I wonder if this slows her

mind down some where she can concentrate better.

[Guest guest]

my daughter has never slept very much....I have just gotten used to it. She is

6 years old. She sleeps in 3 hour shifts during the night. When she wakes up

she reads a book or talks to her animals for awhile before going back to sleep.

Good luck

Becky

Berry wrote:

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has noticed if there

children

with autism seem to function better with less sleep. For instance my

daughter woke up at 3:00 in the morning and although I was encouraging

her to go back to sleep she kept getting up. So when getting ready for

school and on our drive to school she just seemed so calm and happy.

This is not the first time for this. It's almost funny to me even

though I am extremly tired. I wonder what is going on with her. I just

want to know everything she is thinking. I wonder if this slows her

mind down some where she can concentrate better.

[Guest guest]

Yes my daughter is the same way. I have learned to live without sleep.

> my daughter has never slept very much....I have just gotten used to it.

> She is 6 years old. She sleeps in 3 hour shifts during the night. When she

> wakes up she reads a book or talks to her animals for awhile before going

> back to sleep.

>

> Good luck

>

> Becky

>

>

> Berry <marcus_maryberry@... <marcus_maryberry%40hotmail.com>>

> wrote:

> Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has noticed if there children

> with autism seem to function better with less sleep. For instance my

> daughter woke up at 3:00 in the morning and although I was encouraging

> her to go back to sleep she kept getting up. So when getting ready for

> school and on our drive to school she just seemed so calm and happy.

> This is not the first time for this. It's almost funny to me even

> though I am extremly tired. I wonder what is going on with her. I just

> want to know everything she is thinking. I wonder if this slows her

> mind down some where she can concentrate better.

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

mary there are of times I to find the same and the reason for it is my

brain never really could find long hours of sleep. so on those rare

times my brain would go to deep rem sleep fast and then in a four hour

time my brain had of a good restful sleep and so after the 4 hours my

brain was awake and alert and functioning. the other is of the world is

less chaotic at 3 am and so less interference with thinking and so one

is more clear at that time frame. there is of less over all noise, less

over all house movements, no busyiness of the world outside with

traffic noise and things of this. so it brings a functional calm .

But if my sleep is of broken up in the night and not able to find the

deep rem sleep my body will wake up very out of sync and disfunctional

and with strong agitated moods of tears, frustrations over everything,

SIB and more OCD and anxeity over everythings too.

but if I ot get of that good rem sleep and i to wake up after a good 4

hour sleep or so what then happens is mid day or so my brain begins of

the opposite and causes of me to have of agitiations due to being of

want of to sleep or rest and cant. this can cause all sorts of

behavioral responses to others and my environment.

sondra

[Guest guest]

I have a lower " set point " for required sleep than many people too...or else

need 12 hours to NOT be a zombie. I don't know why, just if I try to sleep a

normal amount my brain feels all weird. It's like too much or not enough and I'm

cranky and zonked.

Sorry to not be more help!

Kassiane

>

> Subject: daughter functions better with lack of sleep

> To: Autism_in_Girls

> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 1:51 PM

> Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has noticed if

> there children

> with autism seem to function better with less sleep. For

> instance my

> daughter woke up at 3:00 in the morning and although I was

> encouraging

> her to go back to sleep she kept getting up. So when

> getting ready for

> school and on our drive to school she just seemed so calm

> and happy.

> This is not the first time for this. It's almost funny

> to me even

> though I am extremly tired. I wonder what is going on with

> her. I just

> want to know everything she is thinking. I wonder if this

> slows her

> mind down some where she can concentrate better.

>

>

[Guest guest]

kassi interesint you shared of this right amount of sleep and I to

think that for me this plays a huge part in my functionability in the

day too. if I to get of too much I to wake feelingheavily sedated and

so out of sync and if I to get of little sleep that is of broken up it

causes me to be of aggressive and frustrated and agitated all day. my

brain seems to really never get to a rem sleep most nights and just

seems to get to that point and then it seems that it rapidly goes

backward waking me back up. But on ocassions when I to get to that rem

sleep and have sleeped hard for 4 hours I to wake most functional and

alert.

today is of an off day and have been to take of two naps and cant seem

to feel rested yet. my brain just wants to sleep/ I to be having a non

functional day.

sondra

[Guest guest]

Thanks Sondra and Kassie, This is very interesting. She was great in

the morning, but her teacher said she was very tempermental today at

school. He said it went on for about an hour. She had half day and

has been great at home so far.

Do one of you know why my daughter may almost never have a great day

all together? She either has a good day at school and not when she

gets home or it will be the opposite, a bad day at school and a good

day at home. Is it because it's just too much overstimmulation or

sesory?

Thank you so much

>

> kassi interesint you shared of this right amount of sleep and I to

> think that for me this plays a huge part in my functionability in

the

> day too. if I to get of too much I to wake feelingheavily sedated

and

> so out of sync and if I to get of little sleep that is of broken up

it

> causes me to be of aggressive and frustrated and agitated all day.

my

> brain seems to really never get to a rem sleep most nights and just

> seems to get to that point and then it seems that it rapidly goes

> backward waking me back up. But on ocassions when I to get to that

rem

> sleep and have sleeped hard for 4 hours I to wake most functional

and

> alert.

>

> today is of an off day and have been to take of two naps and cant

seem

> to feel rested yet. my brain just wants to sleep/ I to be having a

non

> functional day.

> sondra

>

[Guest guest]

mary cant know for sure but one things that is of for me is of the

one issues I to just shared the sleep or lack of it, the hunger if

having a low blood sugar sort of day, the demands or expectations set

on me, the overlaod of changes or sensory inputs that might be of not

tolerated that moment for me.ususally when I to be out of sync I to

need of breaks to recover for self. a power nap, a chance to focus to

something outside of the demands to me such as TV or computer time.

are they doing of a base line and doing an anecedent even from home

such as her sleep and eating habit that morning. as those can be of

cues to her over all day too. such as one little girl i to use to be

of support she would have bad days if she ate of pancakes and like of

me we discovered this food caused blood sugar sorts of drops and

caused of her aggresions in the day until she ate of lunch and got of

her blood sugar back in sync but then it usually crahsed about 2

hours later because of the dumping of food that her brain absorbed

quickly from the low blood sugar drop that within an few hours it

would crash again. so those days she had of bad days. if this was not

discovered from the home base line it would be of hard for the school

to ever had coorelated this. so now she is of not allowed to eat of

pancakes in the school week.

sondra

[Guest guest]

Sondra I thank you so much for your time and sharring your

experiences. Reading some of your post has opened my mind up to so

many things my daughter maybe feeling. You are a huge blessing for

our family.

Thank you

>

> mary cant know for sure but one things that is of for me is of the

> one issues I to just shared the sleep or lack of it, the hunger if

> having a low blood sugar sort of day, the demands or expectations

set

> on me, the overlaod of changes or sensory inputs that might be of

not

> tolerated that moment for me.ususally when I to be out of sync I

to

> need of breaks to recover for self. a power nap, a chance to focus

to

> something outside of the demands to me such as TV or computer time.

>

> are they doing of a base line and doing an anecedent even from home

> such as her sleep and eating habit that morning. as those can be of

> cues to her over all day too. such as one little girl i to use to

be

> of support she would have bad days if she ate of pancakes and like

of

> me we discovered this food caused blood sugar sorts of drops and

> caused of her aggresions in the day until she ate of lunch and got

of

> her blood sugar back in sync but then it usually crahsed about 2

> hours later because of the dumping of food that her brain absorbed

> quickly from the low blood sugar drop that within an few hours it

> would crash again. so those days she had of bad days. if this was

not

> discovered from the home base line it would be of hard for the

school

> to ever had coorelated this. so now she is of not allowed to eat of

> pancakes in the school week.

> sondra

>

[Guest guest]

Allie almost always has a wonderful day at school after a night

waking. Sometimes I would keep her home, I've found though that she

gets a perfect behavior grade almost every time.

Debi

[Guest guest]

If I over sleep i wake up cranky when I eventually wake up. 4 to 6 hours is what

I like, with a nap during the day. I am a late bird early to rise. Been that way

my whole life!

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Subject: daughter functions better with lack of sleep

To: Autism_in_Girls

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 11:51 AM

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has noticed if there children

with autism seem to function better with less sleep. For instance my

daughter woke up at 3:00 in the morning and although I was encouraging

her to go back to sleep she kept getting up. So when getting ready for

school and on our drive to school she just seemed so calm and happy.

This is not the first time for this. It's almost funny to me even

though I am extremly tired. I wonder what is going on with her. I just

want to know everything she is thinking. I wonder if this slows her

mind down some where she can concentrate better.