Although temporary sleep difficulties are an expected phase of child development, ongoing and persistent sleep disturbances can have an adverse effect on the child, parents and other family members. Indeed, a childs sleeping problems can quickly become a daily parenting challenge. Consequently, we should also expect that sleep problems in children and adolescents with ASD will represent an additional burden on both children and their families, as they attempt to deal with the challenges associated with the symptoms of ASD. Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that insomnia in itself can aggravate autistic symptoms and further impair adaptability. Children with ASD appear to experience sleep disturbances more frequently and intensely than typically developing children.
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What Makes Someone A Light Sleeper?
“Without treatment, it tends to get worse over time,” she told Everyday Health. However, there are medications a person can take to help people relax their muscles when they sleep so that they don’t have any muscle activity when they are in REM sleep, Everyday Health reported. REM Sleep Behavior Disorder has also been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease and multisystem atrophy, and seems to occur several years before these diseases, WebMD reported. Sleep Walking And Talking Similarly to sleep paralysis, sleep-walking and sleep-talking occur when part of the brain is awake but the rest of it is asleep, Gehrman said. “With sleep-walking, people are mostly asleep but you’re engaging in what are usually kind of basic routine behaviors,” Gehrman said. “So typically, people sleep walk and go to the bathroom, or go down to the kitchen and get something to eat, but it’s all usually very routine.” Because sleep-walking and sleep-talking occur in non-REM sleep, since non-REM sleep only produces bland, boring dreams, whatever the person is saying or acting out is not related to what they may actually be dreaming about, he said.
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