I can’t stand how little sleep is emphasized in modern American culture.
I am a 16 year old type 1 Narcoleptic in high school.
Where I live, school starts at 7:15 AM, but due to timing with my parent’s jobs, I have to wake up before 6 AM to get to school on time.
I have recently learned that teenagers have proven to get tired at 11 PM consistently in research. which only gives me around 7 hours of sleep.
Not to mention the insomnia I get as a symptom of my Narcolepsy and it gets almost impossible to function at school without sleeping through MULTIPLE classes.
I see so many people around me who don’t have sleep disorders and are still too tired to function, sleep is so unbelievably important and people ignore it way too goddamn much.
If you google any symptoms, the first recommendation you see online is to get more sleep.
But I’m just stuck living through what feels like literal torture because for some reason sleep has been made out to be a sign of weakness or laziness in our culture.
I don’t know how much longer I can take it…
Thoughts??