Autism and 3 Sleep Disturbances, the Common and Uncommon Expressions (including one I just learned about today)

It is 3:17 in the dark of a southern night. Outside the window, the trees, the bushes, the grasses all drowse and dream in the still, heavy air. Fire ants, spiders, moles, birds of every stripe and hue, even the roly-polys have closed their little pillbuggy eyes and dream.

The plates and bowls sleep tucked away in their cabinets. Your towels, your extra sheets, your carpet dreams. Even the water in your toilet tank rests.

Your car sleeps in the driveway.

Your ice cream in the freezer dreams contentedly.

Your neighbors, all up and down your street, in your subdivision, in your town…all eyes are peacefully closed

resting

recuperating

recharging for the day to come

and you

you leaf aimlessly through a 2025 Indiana vacation planner (Come to the David Owsley Museum of Art in beautiful Muncie! Come see the Black-Naped Fruit Dove only at the Fort Wayne Zoo!)

Conveniently located on Sherman Boulevard! (photo from fwzoo.com)

Sleep — one of the most beautiful and most fundamental aspects of being — eludes me, often, and it eludes a greater percentage of those of us in the Autistic community than it does…