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Just because you're going to bed earlier doesn't mean you're going to sleep earlier.

When I was a teen, I didn't get tired until nearly midnight.

Even when I was getting up for school at 6 AM. My parents would send me to bed some time between 9 and 10, and I'd toss and turn wide awake for 2 hours. Even with sleep deprivation stacking up over the week as I was only getting 6 hours of sleep, I still couldn't get to sleep as I was simply not tired.

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But is that the norm? Is that how it is for most people?

Sample size of 1 (well I guess 2 with the parent post) but yes it was the same here.

Same for me

A lot of studies have shown it's common. Maybe not quite to the level I had, but teens in general have circadian rhythms that are shifted later.

The problem of course is that they make high school start earlier than middle school despite the tendency to want to rise and sleep later so that high school kids can arrive home before their possible younger elementary school siblings and watch them.

There is no teen-gene that sets your sleep schedule in stone tho afaik. Maybe some psychological problems?

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