Dr. Micaela

So I'm going to dive a little bit into why this can sometimes happen.

And then I'm probably going to go on a low key aggressive rant about why sleep is so important and why, even though we hate it and have such a hard time with it, we want to prioritize working on that whenever we can.

Okay.

So why might a slightly attenuated night of sleep, right?

So five, six hours actually lead to improved experiences or improved performance.

And that might be for a neurodivergent person, but it also might be for a totally neurotypical person.

person, right?

Sleep functions to give our brains and bodies the amount of energy we need to be able to go through our day and conquer any of the things that come up.

Okay.

And so if we get enough sleep, that means our body is adequately charged, right?

To be able to do all the things that come our way.

If we don't get enough sleep, then our brain is like, well, shoot,

I don't know if I'm allowed to swear here, actually.

A shoot.

Thank you.

I'm allowed to say shit.

Okay.

So.

Our body is like, OMG, like I don't have enough energy, which means I'm going to put all of my systems on hyper threat alert mode.

Right now, if I have typically decent sleep and then I have a just mediocre night of sleep, so five, six hours like this poster mentions sleep.