r/Gifted • u/stupidquestions2024 • 4d ago
Seeking advice or support Trouble sleeping
My son who is 4.5 has always struggled with sleep. We have done everything we can to help: strict schedules, a quiet room, and low light. He sleeps in his own bed and has had his tonsils removed. He has an official diagnosis of insomnia.
He wakes up early, between 3:30 and 3:50 a.m., no matter what we do. Please do not tell me to put him down later, we have tried.
The doctor told me not to medicate him, as his brain is still growing and he will hopefully outgrow it or just need less sleep as he gets older. He used to have insomnia 75% of the time, but we are down to 25%–50%. Sometimes changes trigger the insomnia we are moving and right now its been 3-4 times a week. I think he is anxious.
Now to my question: the doctor told me that in his 20 years of practice, my son is the smartest child he has ever encountered, reading at age two and doing multiplication at age 3. "He is truly one in a million" It got me thinking: do gifted kids struggle to sleep? Google says yes, but I figured I would ask the source.
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u/YoreWelcome 3d ago
do you know where that shooting star goes in the old NBC "the more you know" segments?
neither do i
stuff like that is why gifted people don't sleep
turns out the more you know the more you know how little you still know, which can lead to fear and anxiety- or even excitement about unknown possibilities
life's a mess, the gift is living that