Sleep Stats: Autism
- Nearly 80% of Autistic children age 2 to 5 have sleep problems (Reynolds et al., 2019).
- Autistic people tend to get less REM sleep. On average, we spend about 15% of our sleep in REM sleep (Allistics, on average, spend 25% in REM sleep). This means we need MORE sleep to get the same amount of REM as the average person (Buckley et al., 2010; Neumeyer et al., 2019).
- Autistic people are more likely to experience insomnia, which includes everything from difficulty falling asleep to night waking and early morning rising (Furfaro, 2020).
- Autistic people are more likely to have gene mutations that impact melatonin regulation & circadian rhythms (Furfaro, 2020).
Every now and then this post goes up in reblogs, mostly with the tag of #FUCK
Which is very funny and sad to me.
Source: neurodivergentinsights.com