My symptoms started to develop around the age of 14 and gradually became stronger and fully manifested. Self diagnosed through an online sleep quiz A year or two after the symptoms started I began to search the internet for sleep disorders because somehow I knew something was not right. At the same time, I did not know how to talk about or explain what I was experiencing and feeling. I stumbled upon a sleep quiz that had few and simple questions, but it addressed sleep and cataplexy. The results said “Narcolepsy – very rare”, and I felt it was right. But the “very rare” part made me think there was…
