Inherited a sleeping disorder from my mom that forces me to sleep 12 hours a night or I'll wake up tired/drowsy

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It's frustrating to deal with because it messes up my schedule all the time, I can never consistently wake up or sleep at a certain time frame. I also feel that I have less free time than others and that it's unfair. Society demands you to sleep a certain amount of hours and be awake a certain amount of hours, but due to my illness I don't fit in the structure. Like clockwork, I sleep 12~ hours, and after 12~ hours of being awake, I feel sleepy again. This is why try to cheat the system by staying awake longer than usual in an effort to "gain agency" over myself, but it always comes at the cost of wrecking my schedule. It's really unfair.

Now that I've written this, I just realized I could probably ask my nurse for pills that can treat me. I'll ask him on our next online meeting I guess.