The one thing about my neurotype that bothers me sometimes is my night owlness.
If I have no mandated early morning thing I will not go to sleep. Despite my best intentions to do that. Just today I had a free day, but had a morning appointment and by noon I was amazed at *all the day I have left *because I got up sooner.
I love nights. I love the darkness and the solitude, I love how silent it is and how safe and like myself I feel when everyone else is sleeping. And I’ve always been like this. As a kid I read books in bed until morning, as I grew up I watched whatever was on on tv until the wee hours. There were the gaming years as well and now I browse the internet.
There is no real point to this rant. I suppose it would just be nice to have more time in my freedays, but I also don’t want to give up my nights of solitude or patholozise what I have always been like.
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome and sleep apnea are often co-morbid with ADHD: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/mental-health/adhd-and-sleep
I’m aware, but personally have some issues with the co-morbidity framing and generally the way diagnostic criteria labels human traits as pathologies.
It is very much a flavour of my neurospicyness for sure.
You’re right, it doesn’t have to be pathologized. Guess I’m used to that kind of medical language.