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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I wasn't going to go into the details, but since some of you called me crazy, I'll give you some background.  My DS has major mental illness.  He is bipolar, on the spectrum, has terrible OCD and anxiety, and has been hospitalized several times in his short life.  So while most of you can get your kids to listen to you, depending on my son's mood, I often cannot.  I have put his internet on a schedule through the router so it turns off by a certain time every night, but if my DS is really pissed off or angry or depressed, he does not care about the consequences I give him.

I'm a high school teacher and talking to my students, my DS's bedtime is not that uncommon, according to my students.  So I was really just asking other parents of teens to see how common/uncommon his bedtime is.  I'm trying to figure out if his sleepiness is depression or a side effect of his medication.

Oh, and my DS doesn't get up until 8:00 on school days, so he is still getting 9 hours of sleep.  According to a sleep specialist we just saw, the magic number for teens is 9 hours and 15 minutes.  I think my DS would still be falling asleep during school even if he had those extra 15 minutes.[/quote]

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