Do you play with autonomy on or off?

I generally play with it on all the time unless I am trying to take family pictures. I like having sims walking around that I don't control. Lately though, I just started playing again a few days ago and I notice my sims keep canceling their queue (even when they are in the reds for something I told them to take care of or waking themselves up to go do something like play with a card table or watch tv when they don't need fun only to pass out or pee themselves. I just turned it off yesterday since that got to annoying.