"most striking to me wasn't the health implications of messing with your clock. It was the stigma late sleepers feel in a society ruled by early risers. Simply put: These late sleepers are tired of being judged for a behavior they cannot easily control. If they can't change their sleep patterns, maybe society should become more accepting of them...
Solokis says that even the first doctor she saw about the condition didn't believe her. "He told me to stop drinking coffee and I'd be fine," she says. "And when it didn't work, he assumed I was lying." So she sought the care of another specialist.
If doctors don't believe in the condition, peers are even less likely to empathize. "It's really frustrating; when you try to explain it to another person, they don't get it," she says...
The late sleepers I spoke to also lamented how struggling to fit in hurt their performance in daily life.
"There's a lot of emotional baggage tied up into going to work," Amy, a 26-year-old Seattle resident with delayed sleep phase, told me. "You're arriving later, you feel like you're not actually present, when people ask you questions you give stupid answers."
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11306124/chronotype-night-owl-discrimination?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Vox%20Sentences%203/28/16&utm_term=Vox%20Newsletter%20All
^my life. And it's surprising how often people literally don't believe you, or say something patronizing like "I used to stay up late too, when I was in college, but I knew I had to reset when I graduated"
Related: Why not to be a morning person.
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