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#actuallyautistic #sleep

I have a question about sleep medicine, and tech companies.

I'm finally trying to get help with my sleeping, and I was asked to fill out a sleep diary and wear an ActiGraph "watch" for two weeks. I looked into the ActiGraph and could find that it has an accelerometer in it. That's a two dollar part, and the doctor charges $1000 to replace it if I lose mine.

I asked the ActiGraph company, but they refused to communicate with me. They only talk to doctors.

I asked my doctor and he said it just tells whether I'm asleep or awake. This all sounds very suspicious to me. My guess is that this thing is a dataminer that throws off thousands of data points, one of which they give my doctor to use. That fits with the general exploitative, extractive, abusive nature of the tech world. But I don't actually know, and when I don't know and get the runaround trying to find out, I balk. I'm not wearing the thing.

Does anyone actually know anything about these devices?