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Arright, I'm going to try and stick with spectrum specific stuff here and just say that it's probably worth looking into ASD regardless but generally speaking, the cerebellum is underdeveloped in ASD folks, leading to characteristic clumsiness/physical awkwardness/gawkiness. Hope the book gives you some good stuff on getting better sleep and I'd be interested to hear what you've learned from it. WRT sleep and autism specifically, basically my understanding is that the autistic brain has a smaller reservoir for emotional stimulation while also processing emotions more slowly, and one of the ways that this manifests is in an active resting network and generally more frequent and vivid dreams compared to neurotypicals.
Interesting regarding the smaller reservoir for emotional stimulation, and more active resting network. I haven't seen it put in those words, "active resting network" before. That seems to be similar to what I experience, in that my thoughts just don't shut down even when I want to rest. Feels like I'm calculating (to what end I don't know) the previous mundane events of the day sometimes, not even in a stressed way but in a doing-arithmetic mechanical sort of way, but I can't shut it off. Unless sometimes like I said, if I do everything else right while also managing to not overthink sleep hygiene. Not sure if that's really emotional processing going on though, more just an instinctive reluctance to let go of active thinking, but perhaps processed by the cerebellum too, idk?
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