Fellow neurodivergents, what do you wear to bed?

[ofwarren]

I generally wear what I had on in the day and actually pick clothes that are suitable for sleeping in too.
I mainly wear leggings and a long top of some kind.

I can't wear pyjamas as the trousers twist and annoy me, and nighties just ride up and make me cold.

I have to have bare feet as socks feel awful in bed and even in summer I wear the same clothes. I could never ever sleep naked.

I can nap in clothes during the day, but at night I can't wear anything on my legs because I need to be able to feel the bed or I can't sleep. If it's cold and I need to wear more than a crop top bra on my top half, then it has to be something oversized so that it doesn't cling and ride up. My ideal is knickers and a crop top bra.

Nothing. Any clothes in bed drives me crazy

I do the ear thing! My mum has got photos of me doing it when I was very young too.

I wear home clothes. IE those I wear at home. So shorts and t shirt in summer and thermal base layers/woolly cardies.

I wear normal clothes for going out in. (Still with thermal base layer if not June, July or August. )

Soft pajamas. Not that weird towling cloth stuff or anything sheer, that makes me shudder. No buttons.

I don't know if it's the feeling of air for me, more a general feeling of wrongness, but I'm also the one in long sleeves 365 days per year.

At night it has always been long sleeves but now there's a vest so I don't have to be cold getting changed and a fleece on top. I think the extra layers have been added for 'security' because my life has been a complete mess since the pandemic started and routine got so disrupted.

Soft, loose cotton jersey pyjama bottoms and a vest top, no bra. Need to be full length legs on the pyjamas as I can’t bear my legs touching each other and getting hot and sticky. Also have to put on a fresh pair of pants before bed, specific small low rise cotton pants, no tight elastic, not just any old things.

I can go with or without socks, depending how loose and comfortable the ones are that I have on at bedtime or what the temperature is. I will often push them off my feet in the night though. I also can’t stand when the duvet is too heavy hanging off the bottom of the bed and sort of pulls on my feet, I have to drag it all up onto the bed and bunch it up on top of them because that feels much lighter. I would literally die before agreeing to sleep in any kind of polyester/poly cotton pyjamas or bed linen. It’s like I can literally sense the plastic content of it and I start to feel sweaty and grubby in anticipation.

I can’t wear my pyjamas more than two nights in a row. My DP jokes that the majority of our laundry is just my pyjamas. I have two full drawers of them, so committed to bed time comfort.

I have ADHD, but sensory things relating to clothes have been an issue for me since I was very small. My dad once took me to the Wrangler factory shop to buy me several pairs of new jeans to knock about in, the button on them was very uncomfortable on my tummy and the new Denim felt excruciating to me so I wouldn’t shut up moaning about it and asking for my jeans to be unbuttoned all day. In the end he got so exasperated he threw them all in the bin, the day after he bought them.

My conundrum about having to wear long pyjama bottoms to stop my legs touching is that they also then ride up and get all twisted and I absolutely hate this too. My DP will sometimes put his legs over me in bed when we’re watching Tv and it fucks with all my smoothing out of my pyjamas and bed line and then I’ll whinge at him for “‘making me twisty” and have to re-do all of my straightening and smoothing. Or he’ll be woken in the night by me straightening out all my “twisty-ness”.

Well I really didn’t think I was all that bad until I typed those two comments out and now I realise I am probably an absolute nightmare to share a bed (or life) with 🙃

Nothing. The thought of the fabric of pyjamas rubbing against the fabric of the duvet makes me feel a bit sick. Plus the riding up, twisting etc. And I can’t wear socks or long sleeves any time let alone in bed.

@ZealAndArdour

My conundrum about having to wear long pyjama bottoms to stop my legs touching is that they also then ride up and get all twisted and I absolutely hate this too. My DP will sometimes put his legs over me in bed when we’re watching Tv and it fucks with all my smoothing out of my pyjamas and bed line and then I’ll whinge at him for “‘making me twisty” and have to re-do all of my straightening and smoothing. Or he’ll be woken in the night by me straightening out all my “twisty-ness”.

Well I really didn’t think I was all that bad until I typed those two comments out and now I realise I am probably an absolute nightmare to share a bed (or life) with 🙃

I hate my legs touching too so I wear leggings rather than pyjama bottoms. Even the tighter fit ones feel twisty to me when in bed.

Knickers and a vest or t shirt. Like others I struggle with socks, trousers, nighties riding up etc. I did sleep in just knickers til I got my nipples pierced a few years back - catching them in my sleep meant I had to add a top to the mix! 😀knickers are essential as air on the flange is uncomfortable too 😂