Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome

[livingwith]

I am 17 years old and I have always been a “night owl”. I usually go to sleep around 5-7am and wake up at 3 or 4pm its horrible. I left my public high school and enrolled in a homeschool because it was so hard for me to wake up. I was doing poorly in public high school, but in homeschool im doing great. I would say this started around the age of 14 i honestly cannot remember.
But it has effected me greatly my mother thinks im lazy and not disiplined and i was starting to believe tha...Read the full article

[Nightweaver]

You are so fortunate to have found this out now! Now you know, if you go onto College, to take classes in the afternoons and evenings...avoid any classes before noon if possible. Find a college that has a full range of evening classes and even online classes.

If you don't go to school, look for a career that you can do nights or evenings. You might even consider moving to a place in the country that has 24 hour days...parts of New York City, Las Vegas, Alantic City, Orlando and I'm sure there's more.

And look for a mate who also has DSPD...it will make life easer on both of you!

I'm 53 and married 25 years to a Lark. It's a wonder we stayed married so long. We had a number fights about this for years. Id' go to bed with him, lay awake till I knew he was asleep enough for me to get up and then go to the other room and read because I didn't want to wake him up and get into an arguement because I was still up! I learned to read well this way, and to this day enjoy a good book, but It wasn't a good time overall.

Now I boldly stay up till 5 AM and sleep till 1:00 PM, thanks to the internet allowing me to start my own business which brings me in a decent part time income.

Knowing what I now know about DSPD I'd probably do life over if I could! You get that chance from the beginning! Good Luck!

Nightweaver