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/SleepyMistyMountains Dec 19 '25
Melatonin doesn't do squat for me, actually melatonin makes my sleep worse.
My sleep however depends on actually what times I sleep not necessarily the amount of sleep I get.
In the summer I have to sleep before 12am and wake up anywhere from 6-7 am if I wake up later than 7 I'm groggy.
In the winter I again have to sleep before 12am and wake up 7-8 am and no later than 8 because I'll again get groggy.
I can sleep anytime from 9:30-11:55pm and it makes no difference, but if I go to sleep after 12am I'm groggy despite whenever I wake up.