Insomniamaniac
I recently took an informal survey of folks in a Facebook autism group that I'm a member of. The responses were unsurprising. What was the question? Did the people in the group struggle with insomnia. The answer was, all of them. I've dealt with insomnia for a long, long time. I can remember well a night when I was maybe 10 and I just couldn't fall asleep. I tried and tried and tired, but it wasn't happening. That left me with many hours to fill flipping through the pages of Boys' Life magazine and whatever books I had on hand. I don't recall it happening as often throughout high school, perhaps a night here and there and almost certainly every night prior to returning to school following summer vacation. It's hard! It's 3:29 a.m. as I type this. I really do want to go to sleep, but my brain is too active. Prior to starting this blog entry, I was in bed, but my mind was just going full speed, playing out conversations or just flinging around random ...