Sleeping Teens
I wasn't sure were to post this, so hopefully I peged it right...
I have a 15 year old son with Aspergers. And with all Atusim there are sleep issues.. I do not want to go the Sleeping pills route if I don't have to, but I would love to find something Natural... He hates pills so I don't want to get into taking a million pills... He wont go to bed before 2:00am and will not wake up until after Noon. School is starting for us in a few weeks and there is no way he will make Classes that start @ 7:15 am... Help, I am pulling my hair out with him...
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I do not have an answer, but you may want to post in the autism board. I wish you luck.
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This sounds to me like a bad habit. Since he is sleeping 8 hours and seems to be waking up on his own, the problem could simply be the time he is going to bed. The only thing that works around here is to gradually get them back to an earlier go to bed and get up time.
You might want to say that you want him in bed at 1:30 for the next week and get up at 11:30, then decrease the bedtime weekly so that it's not a shock. You might want to sit him down and let him know that school is not going to be an option. Right now, he can control getting himself back on schedule. Once school starts, that control is over and that is going to be hard for him.
Good luck... I am right there with you with my 14 year old. She likes to either sleep or argue
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The way my mom handled it for me when I was in highschool.. (and i know with autism it can be totally different) was to not only tell me that I am going to have to go to bed earlier but to wake me up earlier too.. wake him up and make him go out and do something.. go outside.. not just sit and watch tv... this way he is tired earlier also.
The first week of classes in high school was always rough but by the end of the first week I normally had decided I was ready to go to bed by 11.
Don't know if this will help you at all but it is worth a shot.
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If I wasn't so smart I would have never gone to high school. Middle school in Florida starts at close to 10am so my parents were never home when I had to get up and I think I slept in half of those 3 years. I just could never wake up and I went to bed at 8pm each night and I still didn't wake up until 10-10am. My parents woke me up and made me take a shower before they left work but I would always fall back asleep and not wake up until 10-11am. So I just barely passed middle school and once I started high school I needed to catch the bus at 4:45am (yes I know that is crazy early) and for some reason I went through all four years of high school with a total of 11 days missed and 8 of those days I was in the hospital so that is a great record. After high school I never had problems waking up on time but honestly I'm still not sure why I had that much of a problem getting up.
Maybe this doesn't help you but I felt I should say it anyway as sometimes these problems happen for no real reason or at least not a reason we are aware about.
I have a 15 year old son with Aspergers. And with all Atusim there are sleep issues.. I do not want to go the Sleeping pills route if I don't have to, but I would love to find something Natural... He hates pills so I don't want to get into taking a million pills... He wont go to bed before 2:00am and will not wake up until after Noon. School is starting for us in a few weeks and there is no way he will make Classes that start @ 7:15 am... Help, I am pulling my hair out with him...
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I do not have an answer, but you may want to post in the autism board. I wish you luck.
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This sounds to me like a bad habit. Since he is sleeping 8 hours and seems to be waking up on his own, the problem could simply be the time he is going to bed. The only thing that works around here is to gradually get them back to an earlier go to bed and get up time.
You might want to say that you want him in bed at 1:30 for the next week and get up at 11:30, then decrease the bedtime weekly so that it's not a shock. You might want to sit him down and let him know that school is not going to be an option. Right now, he can control getting himself back on schedule. Once school starts, that control is over and that is going to be hard for him.
Good luck... I am right there with you with my 14 year old. She likes to either sleep or argue
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The way my mom handled it for me when I was in highschool.. (and i know with autism it can be totally different) was to not only tell me that I am going to have to go to bed earlier but to wake me up earlier too.. wake him up and make him go out and do something.. go outside.. not just sit and watch tv... this way he is tired earlier also.
The first week of classes in high school was always rough but by the end of the first week I normally had decided I was ready to go to bed by 11.
Don't know if this will help you at all but it is worth a shot.
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If I wasn't so smart I would have never gone to high school. Middle school in Florida starts at close to 10am so my parents were never home when I had to get up and I think I slept in half of those 3 years. I just could never wake up and I went to bed at 8pm each night and I still didn't wake up until 10-10am. My parents woke me up and made me take a shower before they left work but I would always fall back asleep and not wake up until 10-11am. So I just barely passed middle school and once I started high school I needed to catch the bus at 4:45am (yes I know that is crazy early) and for some reason I went through all four years of high school with a total of 11 days missed and 8 of those days I was in the hospital so that is a great record. After high school I never had problems waking up on time but honestly I'm still not sure why I had that much of a problem getting up.
Maybe this doesn't help you but I felt I should say it anyway as sometimes these problems happen for no real reason or at least not a reason we are aware about.