Four Signs of Autistic Burnout #shorts

[deborahlee]

1. decrease in self care
2. losing skills
3. emotional dysregulation
4. What's #4?

[rattenfreundin]

This video is super helpful! I really struggle to notice myself burning out, so I'll start looking out for these signs. Thank you for your videos ^^

[sj_the_invisible_audhd]

This is really helpful and relatable; thank you for posting 🙏🏼😊. However, it seems to cut out towards the end of sign number 3…number 4 doesn’t play. Has anyone else found this?

[salliexx]

I’ve literally suffered so much autistic burnout in my life and not even realised that it is autistic burnout 😢😢😢 literally there is a lot of things I’ve learnt from your videos about myself that I didn’t know I even experienced in my life 😢😢😢 xx

[El-ksff]

Thank you, last time it happened to me, I didn’t have a clue. And I went straight into meltdown at work. But they are quite supportive now in helping to avoid overwhelm for me before it gets too much.

[salliexx]

I’m watching this video at 3:30am as I’m struggling to get to sleep 😢😢😢 I’ve been watching and commenting on a lot of your videos all night

[dawnhughes]

As an adult mom, how can you ever be out of burnout?! I am a wreck! Thanks for spreading awareness!

[bonkersbunnymum]

As someone with a diagnosis of ME/CFS too, I relate to all of those signs as things that happen to me with an ME flare up… but now as I’m new to understanding that I’m autistic, I’m wondering how much is due to ME and how much is actually an autistic burnout.

[LWeOAreVOneE]

Me for the past like... 5 years. I live on sandwiches and cheap microwave meals and rarely clean anything in my house. Fountain pens were one of my favorite things, but I haven't had the energy to keep up with the maintenance for the past 2ish years, so I just use rollerballs and Pilot's erasable pens. I always struggle to force myself to get into the shower, but if I don't shower every other day, I feel gross and can't relax, so I just force myself to shower on alternating days. Ever since I moved out on my own and entered the workforce and adult life, I've been barely able to keep up with the bare minimum to take care of my pets and survive. It's like I'm working two full-time jobs: the one I work to pay the bills, and the one I work to keep myself alive.

[NorthLoftier]

I'm autistic and I'm currently burnt out! I'm isolated and feel so lazy. You're on point. I like to read, learn, and analyze my interests and obsessions, and that is physics, psychology, and engineering! I'm now unable to continue learning. I've always noticed this in myself, either I do with joy or need, or I can't do!

[sharity]

This is crazy! My mom and I have all of these and just chalked it up to mental illness.

[richardhardwick]

I'm always in a state of burn out accordto this!

[jimwilliams]

I know something is up if I'm wearing the same shirt for 5 days. COVID made that hard to decipher as a behavior. But now that you mention it, it does occur along with those other things.

[shiny]

Well said well explained good examples.👏🏼👏🏼 through out the years you have learned to get to the point and teach these facts very well. I subscribed today!

[CB]

Number 1 reminded me i have a pack of gold bars in the cupboard. I think chocolate is my absolute favourite stim. But when I'm in burnout, it's all i want to eat

[thedoublek]

All of this sounds like an eerily similar / accurate description of my past few months...

[mayindi]

Thanks you!! I love your videos they really help me

[rachel_espinoza]

My autistic burn out is so weird like I don’t know how to explain it, but I can physically feel noises I don’t like. It’s why I don’t like it when people tap their fingers on something. It just gives me a weird feeling.

[kathybramley]

Hehe - is that deliberate. Emotion takes over and there is nothing Relatable.

[didntcreateahandle]

I got tattoos as a masking tool. I was also testing my pain threshold since I only seemed to cry when I assumed it was the right thing to do.