#autisticburnout — Public Fediverse posts

As you're recovering from burnout, if you're doing it in a way that's trying to deconstruct the reasons that you got into burnout in the first place, and form new patterns for the future, you might find that you'll still sometimes recognize that you've kind of reached your limit, that you're tired, you need to rest, but you're gonna push on anyway. 1/2

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Genuine recovery for autistic burnout requires two things happening at once: 1) unlearning the old messaging and 2) building new ways of operating designed for an 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 nervous system, instead of borrowed from a world that wasn’t built for you.

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The way I see it, sustainable recovery is just as much about unlearning ableist crap as it is about learning skills for a healthy Autistic life.

In my 𝘽𝙚𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙩 course, I propose a holistic approach to addressing five major areas that I have found are essential for sustained burnout recovery. 1/2

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Rainbow’s Week, Sept 18 2025

So, this is not exactly a weekly update, huh? The last one was September 7, 11 days ago. Oh well. This one can be Rainbow’s Almost-Fortnight.

To say hi, my name is Azure, and I’m a member of a plural system, which means multiple people in one bodymind. We share the name Rainbow and they/them pronouns. We are multiply disabled (autism, PTSD, ME/CFS, and others) and require assistive devices and caregivers.

This week-and-a-bit was actually even rougher than the previous week. I got majorly triggered twice again, and my executive dysfunction issues are even worse now. I think it’s because I changed depression medications. This new one does not seem to be doing much.

To follow up on the previous update:

1. The tasking hour did not work out. We can’t even handle an hour a day of tasks.

2. I’m still frontstuck (stuck in charge of the body).

3. The hair washing idea worked out! It actually works really well. I’m so glad.

New happenings:

1. I’ve been video calling a lot with people we’re close to. We’ve figured out a way to accommodate our autistic burnout: they speak, and we type. It requires a bit of gymnastics on Discord (I’ve been doing two browser windows side by side).

2. Four whole medical appointments and a vaccination (yay vaccines). I’m so tired. At least everyone accommodated our need to type instead of speak without question! I wish our phone had a louder speaker, sigh.

3. Lots of special interest time!! I’ve been working on our personal website, researching and using paid survey sites and stuff (which is, weirdly enough, a special interest), making spreadsheets, and writing blog posts about the survey/etc. sites.

Website: Since the previous “Rainbow’s week” update, using only online articles so far (as opposed to one-on-one help), I’ve added an RSS feed, a comment widget from online, blog post tags and tag sorting (coded manually), a custom domain, and a favicon (Wikipedia link). I have tried and failed to add mobile optimization… maybe later. I’m told it’s readable on mobile as is. Here is the website if you want to look at it!

Paid survey sites: I’ve been really excited about this! It certainly isn’t a well-paid job, but for what it is and how accessible it is to me, I’m impressed by how much I’ve earned so far. And I’ve just been having fun with it! I made a spreadsheet to track each site/app each day, just because I wanted to. I had fun with the functions.

Blog posts: I’ve only written one new one since last “Rainbow’s Week” update, but I’ve been updating the one I wrote last week. Now there are six sites/apps listed, with HTML anchors so it’s possible to click on a link at the top of the page and jump partway down the page. I think that’s cool! Yay organization!

Thank you for reading! I hope your week was okay!

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