Hi all, I'm looking for thoughtful advice in terms of academic discussion on the current literature and unpublished theories in it's application to a reasonable intervention that's able to be accomplished and routinely persist in our lifestyle. lol

This post is about sleep cycles, cosleeping, and other sleep strategies as it relates to neurodivergent people.

I won't cite this part, but I will start with the assumption that sleep cycles are largely hereditary. If you disagree about this point, understand that I simply use this assumption to explain my family's experience:

My husband, myself, and of course my toddler and I all sleep and wake later than is reasonable/convenient for the 9am-6pm workday. It's always been a struggle for the adults to wake up and get up on time, so it's gonna be a struggle for the kid to wake up and get up on time. I'm highly dependent on the sun cycles and struggle much more in winter right before DST. If we moved our work/school day to a more accommodating time schedule (11-8), we wouldn't have a different experience than everyone else. (But, our society is abilist and also somehow although most people work a 9-5 day, we all get our big-deal errands done during the 9-5 day every once in a while too LOL)

My big question is on whether cosleeping and other coping accommodations can be helpful or potentially hurt neurodivergent kids. I found a lot of studies that drew causation where there is none - or where I would theorize it is reversely causative... Is there a higher prevalence of cosleeping in kids with anxiety ? Seems like cosleeping might be GOOD for their behavioral health. 🤔

Here's all the stuff I found:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263075623_ADHD_Sleep_Problems_and_Bed_Sharing_Future_Considerations

https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2020.1732431

https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054718762513

What else is out there? Any good studies or irl programs testing these theories?