What’s that you say, you just can’t wake up in the morning? All six of your alarm clocks go off at 5-10 minute intervals and you don’t even hit snooze, you just don’t hear them? If forced to get up, you have morning sickness? The only way to be absolutely certain you don’t oversleep, is to stay up all night?
When I was a kid, this was mostly my fault: laziness, sloth. It was also my parents’ fault: lousy parenting. It was assumed that any normal person can train her/himself to wake by 8, and no abnormality in this regard was recognized. Last week’s A Little Bit Special diary had the undertitle Growing up undiagnosed; I could as well have used that undertitle here, too!
Fortunately Circadian Rhythm Disorders are now recognized, though a majority of doctors still don’t know anything about them and the treatments offered often don’t work well.
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