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Many of us have a fraught relationship with sleep. We delay bedtime for precious alone time, we scroll on our phones in bed, we sacrifice weeknight sleep only to catch marathon Zs on the weekend.

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If you’re a person with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and you feel like you’re in a nightly battle against your own brain’s ability to power down, you’re actually…not wrong, science ...