SLEEP SABOTAGE: 10 things only neurodivergent people do after midnight
LATE BLOOMERS
Rich & Rox Pink
5.0 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From doomscrolling and anxious overthinking to sofa naps, Netflix loops, gaming, temperature drama, rumination spirals, and that dreaded “big day tomorrow” insomnia, they break down why bedtime always feels like a boss level we can’t beat.
It’s funny, honest, and deeply familiar to anyone whose brain refuses to shut up at night. A comfort episode for every neurodivergent night owl who is trying their best — and still ends up wide awake at 2:47am wondering how the hell this keeps happening.
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| 0:00.0 | We all know that sleep is incredibly important for everything, but neurodivergent brains like to come and mess with our sleep. |
| 0:08.6 | Today we're talking about the 10 ways in which our brains get in the way of us getting a good night's sleep. |
| 0:15.3 | And it's brutal, isn't it? |
| 0:16.7 | Like not getting enough sleep is a big one. |
| 0:20.0 | Sleep affects mental health physical health how you |
| 0:23.4 | feel is so important and we're all struggling with it welcome to late bloomers where we are getting |
| 0:28.8 | our lives together do do do do do do do eventually so you are right I love you you're really |
| 0:36.0 | amazing and energetic and just a joy to be around. |
| 0:40.0 | Something bad is coming. But when you have not had enough sleep, you are a diva, isn't it? |
| 0:47.4 | I have to be real. Yes. Like I'm like an eight hours girl. And if I don't get my eight hours |
| 0:56.4 | I'm low, I'm brain fog, I'm miserable |
| 0:59.2 | Like our first six months of having rocket |
| 1:01.7 | When I was doing the wee-wee wake-ups |
| 1:04.5 | It ruined my life |
| 1:06.6 | I love him to pieces |
| 1:07.6 | But it ruined my life for six months |
| 1:10.2 | And what I don't understand, right, |
| 1:12.0 | when we're just about to go through this list of everything that gets in the way, |
| 1:15.0 | I don't even know how you do achieve getting enough sleep. |
| 1:18.4 | I mean, look, we're going to talk about 10 things that affect us and loads of neurodivergent people, |
| 1:25.9 | but go back 10 years, I didn't used to be able to sleep without being blackout drunk. |
| 1:33.9 | I would wake up in the middle of the night and take gulps of wine. |
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