Autistic Burnout Explained

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[Rotation]

We live in a neurotypical world, therefore we can’t just ourselves or else we end up isolating ourselves or falling behind. So how can people tell us to be ourselves when it doesn’t benefit us in this world?

[Adelaide]

As an autistic person, I can never explain to allistic people that no matter how hard I try, if I am in an autistic burn out I will not do any work you give me and I will not want to engage in conversation. This happens in school and lately it’s been so tiring. Like I have multiple big projects but I’m way too mentally, physically, and emotionally tired to care. I want to have a job and I don’t want to fail school, but it’s so hard with the world we live in.

[ljsong]

I'm at that point. No support. I've been at that point, no support. I'm going to be stuck at that point for the foreseeable future. No support.

[holly]

Well, I went 73 years before discovering the Autism Spectrum and my little place on it.
Burned out several times but I managed to survive.
I took long walks all by myself.
I bought a workbook about cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and depression, and drove miles away to find a picnic table or I went to a big library or just sat in the car. Had to be alone.
Wrote all kinds of things brought up by the workbook.
I have never gone back to read what I wrote.
The only people I saw were in gas stations and I made it a point to smile at the clerks and wish them a happy day.
It all helped.
I feel so much better now that I know why I think and react so differently. What a relief to know the why and wherefore of my
I can also recommend taking a small picture frame out on walks, and stopping to look at pieces of the world thru the frame and thinking how moving the frame a little one way or another can make a weed, or tree stump, or crack in the pavement look like a satisfying piece of art.
Also, try smiling at yourself in the shower or lying in bed and turn your brain off and just feel your face smile! It is sort of amazing how calming that is.

[ComedicJERFfanjerseycollection]

I hate how there’s a few people like you in the world who understands us, people either misunderstand people like us or don’t care to understand people like us

[pardalote]

Thanks for educating the neurotypical world about this important matter.

[TowerCardReader]

After working four and a half years on my local crisis team as a peer worker I quit, within a month of learning about masking. Once I started to truly acknowledge my masking everything fell apart really quickly. This was a couple years ago now thankfully. These videos always speak on an experience no one around me speaks on. Thank you.

[ursadabear]

Thank you for describing how I’ve feel feeling for the last year. Constant state of burnout that i can’t ever get a full handle on. This is important stuff 💜

[lindakrumenauer]

Right there! Right now! Also, have no idea how to explain my way out of these difficulties with dealing with people. Now, i just cannot function. Thank you for addressing this: what can we

[Yourgrandma-rj]

this happened to me. i stopped caring for myself: not eating, not showering or brushing my teeth (for months on end), even stopped going outside, and stopped having social interactions with people my age. school overwhelmed me so much along with other things from life that i completely shut down. i’m still like this and it’s been years now but i am getting better this year (not fully healed, but getting there)

[samuelartist]

I have that kind of burnout during school confusing anxiety and very much don't know what to do

[Rotation]

If I “be myself”, then that means staying in my comfort zone, which then means isolating myself and staying in bed all day. But when I try to push myself, this burnout happens. What is there to do?

[officially_lunigh]

My family doesn't really take me seriously when im saying that I'm burned out because I'm in an 'easy' year of school thats actually very overwhelming. There's basically no predictability this year

[zenmama]

Very well explained! It's so hard trying to explain to others what I'm going through. This video sums it up so nicely. Thank you for all your videos and advocating for the autistic community! :)

[RenayEmond]

🙏Thank YOU ❣❣❣
Just hearing you say this gives me comfort
In a world where comfort is almost impossible to come by
Thank you❣

[bryanmccaffrey]

Anyone reading the polyvagal and autism text? Nervous system implications. Never feeling safe due to it. I'd say this is why therapy is hard. It's the underlying wiring. It can change with training. I feel that happened when I was in the army now decades later, not so much.

[Canaday]

I feel that I’m on the spectrum. I stress so so much about fulfilling the expectations and responsibilities required of me in this world .
Going through the motions.
Others, especially family members that don’t have any understanding or compassion get offended and mad if I say no to invites, or don’t plan the expected activities or get together so I force myself to go along to appear as fulfilling my duties.
Yet I’m stressed, ruminating, feeling guilty over and over . I feel like I’m constantly masking to fit in to the roles that life has handed me and I don’t enjoy just to fly under radar of scrutiny.

[allisonhennessy]

I have had a huge multi-year burnout after my first first full time job. Now I work part-time for myself and it is much better, but I still experience mini versions of burnout that can last from a couple days to a couple months after social events, the busy holiday season, travel, or the end of larger life projects.

[leaflet]

I wonder if I have that... I am in evaluation for autism right now, even though it's slow, and I am barely alive in battery power.

[critters]

Thanks for the validation, I really needed to hear this right.