A student who can sometimes sleep for 22 hours a day has hit back at people who accuse her of being lazy.
Rhoda Rodriguez-Diaz, 21,suffers with the rare sleeping beauty syndrome which, at it’s worst, has left her sleeping for up to three weeks, waking up only to eat junk food, drink and go to the toilet.
She said: ‘Life goes on whilst I’m sleeping. Reality hits me when I wake up and realise I’ve missed like a week of my life.Advertisement‘It’s hard to explain to people where I have been. Because it’s so rare a lot of people struggle to understand. Rhoda was dismissed from De Montfort University in Leicester last year after missing a number of coursework deadlines and half of her exams because she was asleep.Brushing off claims of ‘laziness’ Rhoda is determined not to let her condition define her
As a child, Rhoda was diagnosed with hyper insomnia – characterised by tiredness – and struggled to cope with life at school.
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