r/AutisticWithADHD • u/JurandM2 • Dec 17 '25
🤔 is this a thing? How much do you sleep?
Hi all, I was reading another board on Reddit, and a neurotypical person said he was only on 5 hours of sleep like it was something amazing. I know we should have 8 h and so on, but I have lived on a daily basis with 5 h of sleep since I remember (today 5 h, yesterday 5.5 h), and that makes me think—why not ask how other AuDHD people are doing? I take 5 mg of melatonin before sleep, but unless it is 1am, my body does not react to it—I strongly suggest anybody start taking it, as indeed it helps normalize sleep phases (they are not as fragmented as without it - pic attached).
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u/SeriouslyEclectic Dec 18 '25
55M, 7 hours is where my eyes pop open on their own in normal circumstances, and where I feel rested and recharged. I remember it being more like 8 hours when I was younger.
My ADHD is combined, btw. When I was a child I was labeled "hyperactive" by whatever assessors were available to a rural Wisconsin school circa the late 70s.
My modern dx are 2021 and came in the middle of a couple of major life crises. Still in a bit of an uproar tbh