One of the best things you can do for your autistic friends is to give them a safe space...🏆 #shorts

[ScienceMom]

I was diagnosed with depression and tried every medication known to man and nothing worked because I am autistic, not depressed. What a nightmare my life has been.

[alim.]

This is when you play everyone's favorite game: is it the burnout or the depression 😂

[janayawilliams]

Thank you for these videos. Didn't know there's people who understand.

[EngineMusic]

Seeing stuff like this as an ill-educated early diagnosis, is just so vindicating.
For years now, I thought there was just something wrong with me, or that people felt the same for most of these things, until I learnt that I was just set free into the wild without knowing anything about anything. Thank you to you, and everyone else in the neurodivergent community for making these videos to guide people like me, as well as later diagnosed people!

[cessieabe]

This REALLY describes how i feel on a daily and my struggles. I thought I just was depressed, but never diagnosed. This is giving me the motivation to go get checked out!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting this out there!!!

[single_daddin_it]

My ND partner struggles and I am doing just this - providing her with a safe space and her comfort zone as long as she needs. I will continue to be her mountain.

[Gryphon_]

While having autism myself, I didn't think this was a thing. I knew I was feeling burnt out for a while now, but this makes a lot of sense. Thanks❤

[shawnholbrook]

yep, thanks. can't get a diagnosis as an old(er) lady, but yep, I'm just like my kids but I burnt myself up with years of hyperactivity, hard work, and insomnia. I have started to knit again, and cook again, but I don't have enough energy. (im ok tho) I've started taking naps again like I did when i was working all the time, it helps, even if I don't sleep and just listen to podcasts. Prayer helps, counseling helps, and talking to humans is helpful sometimes. (if you need a friend, start being a friend to someone) I know it's hard when you are weird, but some people appreciate a little oddity. Life's too short to try to be normal all the time. They may never understand you, but they could still love you the way you are.

[gebo]

I'm there right now and needed to see this little booster. Thankyou!

[eveadame]

Autistic Burnout Looks Normal To Autistic Folks.🌹🌿 Thank you for confirming our normal!

[TwDots]

I just get called lazy with no help lol

[shelbyharper]

I’m dealing with this rn. how do you get out of Life seems hard right now like I honestly can’t even manage or function anymore… it’s so embarrassing..

[Murraysmom]

This is me every weekend right now. It seems so stupid when you think about it logically, but it's been hard to get up and do something. I was able to cook a full dinner, clean the dishes, and prep lunch for work today, so it was a win for me. It seems minimal, but it's. I just wish I didn't need to recover after dealing with strangers for a couple of hours. Does anyone's else feel broken when you get this way?

[PoetHim]

I need to talk to my doctor because maybe I'm not bipolar. These are all of my symptoms. No medicine works for me and I can't sleep and I just self-isolate every weekend because the week has been too hard for me

[dissipatedfog]

I was diagnosed with depression and ADHD at the same time and was put on medication for both. The ADHD meds didn’t seem to do what everybody said they would and I ended up not taking them. 15 years after my diagnoses I ended up going off the depression meds and started taking only the Adderall. Now it works like I was told it would and things are starting to get better.

[clairepurcell]

This happens to me when i'm emotionally burnt out, mainly around certain types of people (unfullfilling or unstable, dramatic or superfical relationships) these take the life out of me in like 1 day. I think my biggest trigger is negative or draining relationships where I feel invalidated, unsupported and used and its always leads to this recovery grief period that looks like burnout.

[Vic-mjts]

Been burnt out for years now, those rare days where you actually have energy are so nice and impossible to keep going.

[peachyserenade]

been trying to get out of burnout for about a year now, when i realized i had reached peak burnout. there are days and days, some good and some horrible. i've been doing better now, still struggling but way better than i was a year ago. you just gotta respect your own time, do tasks you're able to do one day at a time and not push yourself too hard. you can do it, i believe in you!!! 💜
also, a reminder that it's ok to ask for help. dont struggle alone.

[jesswisdom]

And I always thought this was depression. What an eye opener! I am struggling with this exact thing right now and thought I was depressed again. I'm so thankful for your work 🌟

[VintageBalderdash]

Nothing like that half hour of staring into open space to get ready for the thing you’re already late for.