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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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The goal of recovering from autistic burnout isn’t to get back to that past version of yourself who could do more. The goal of recovery is becoming a new version of yourself 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮. 1/2

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Since I have been diagnosed I find showering much more difficult. I used to wash virtually every day, now I basically do it twice a week, or maybe every 4 days,and only then from a sense of shame.
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Nach ein paar Tagen Ruhe mit vorgekochtem Essen und Kuchenresten (yay!) habe ich vermeintlich jede Menge Energie zur Verfügung.

Dann fallen meinem Gehirn hunderte Kleinigkeiten ein, die teilweise gar nicht so klein sind, ich fange alles gleichzeitig zu erledigen an, die Löffelkosten werden ignoriert.

Heute habe ich ein ernstes Wörtchen mit mir geredet und daraufhin mittags aufgehört. War natürlich schon tief im Löffeldefizit, hoffe ich kann morgen aufstehen 😅
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Here's what most people in the online world won't tell you: recovering from autistic burnout is a long process. It may take years.

A client said to me recently: “I’ve been off work for five weeks and I’ve basically made no progress.” He was alarmed. So were his parents, who he was living with again. But... 1/3

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What a lot of people who end up in burnout go through is they work really, really hard for a long time and at doing all the things that they think are gonna make them happy. If you’re autistic, this is not just the job and power dynamics, but it’s also the masking.

It’s doing things “the right way”, doing things the neurotypical way, meeting expectations. This is a very, very common burnout experience. 1/2

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There is an order to the decline when you're experiencing autistic burnout. The first things to go are the optional things. Friendships. Social events. Hobbies. Creative projects. Replying to texts.

Then politeness goes, and saying things in a nicer way, and having the energy to show other people you care about them. Not because the caring stopped. Because the energy to express it isn’t there. 1/3

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Over the summer, I ran a workshop for autistic folks and those who support them called 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙: 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄𝙩 𝙄𝙨, 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙄𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙨.

It's free, the transcript is available for you, and you can check it out on YouTube if you feel this would be helpful for you on your own journey. You can get it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbP9E1aY5w

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A client came to me about her teenage daughter. The mother said the girl had always been able to handle things, and they “just weren’t handleable anymore. Not the sound of people chewing. Not the neighbor’s lawnmower. Most foods were suddenly off limits because she couldn’t stand the texture.”

Nothing changed in the environment. What changed is that the filter between stimulus and overwhelm was gone. 1/3

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Autistic burnout is different from regular burnout. Regular burnout, like work burnout or caregiver burnout, is a volume problem. Too much on your plate, for too long. And the fix follows logically from the cause: take things off your plate, rest, ease back in. That’s good advice. It works.

Autistic burnout isn’t a volume problem. It’s a mismatch problem. 1/3

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Autistic burnout doesn’t need to be a mystery. It is understandable and predictable, and there are clear patterns.

The key is learning the signs of autistic burnout, understanding the differences between it and regular burnout, and taking steps specifically for the patterns YOU are experiencing and noticing.

Most importantly, it is NOT a personal failing. It is a stress condition. And that's real.

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You’ve been doing everything "right." You've been resting, simplifying, pushing through, and it still isn’t enough. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜. The everyday advice you find across the internet was made for neurotypicals, not for us. 1/3

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Currently dealing with something super cool and awesome. Late diagnosed autistic, and currently going through what is quite severe autistic burnout.

The cool thing is that I just remembered a couple times I went non-verbal rather than fighting tooth and nail to mask and fawn, and how good it was for my body/senses/nerves to allow myself to go non-verbal instead... And yet, it feels so extremely humiliating in retrospect, that I can't or won't let myself do it this time.

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When you don't have the energy or the words to explain autistic burnout, I've got a free guide does the explaining for you. You can download it here: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/explaining-autistic-burnout-guide/

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Most people in your life don't understand autistic burnout: what it is, why it happens, or what actually helps. I've got an explanation you can hand to family, clinicians, employers, or anyone who wants to support you but doesn't know how --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbP9E1aY5w

And if you're Autistic or AuDHD yourself, it's a way to understand what you're going through, and to know it's not just you.

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Autistic burnout is fundamentally different from standard burnout, with different causes, so what it takes to recover is different.

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Enrollment is open for Beyond Autistic Burnout, a course where you learn a practical system for sustainable burnout recovery, even when you can’t quit everything. Discover how to recover from Autistic burnout and break the cycle so you never have to go through it again. 1/4

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Let's be honest. A lot of the standard advice for burnout essentially boils down to, "You should practice self-care so you can continue to charade longer."

The truth is, it's just another way to squish your autistic peg into yet another neuronormative hellhole, and then blame you when it doesn't work.

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At times in my life when the external requirements on me have conflicted with my internal needs or reality, the dissonance between those two has proved immense, painful, energy draining, and lonely.

I’m now convinced that this dissonance is a significant contributing factor in autistic burnout, which is a big part of why masking is so bad for us.

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I just realised a stim I have. I very gently clack my front teeth together in time with car indicators when they're left on for more than 5 or so seconds.

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Advice for people having a really tough time processing information, and yet want to engage with things that will actually help them. 1/3

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I took an executive (function) decision today, and returned all my library books, even the ones I could've renewed (except my fingering practice book :meow_nervous2:). I just can't get anything read right now, so no reason to keep others from reading those. And I don't have to feel *so* guilty about not reading them, when they're not reminding me of their existence on my nightstand.

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I hate it how sharp the drop in energy and spoons is nowadays. Had a bit stressful morning, but nothing too bad, would've had a jam session in the afternoon, went there a bit early, sat on a couch, someone came and talked to me and it just sounded like the adults in The Rugrats, couldn't make heads of tails out of it. And I just went "sorry, can't deal with this today" and left. Now back home, some coke and candy consumed, feeling a bit better, and now it's time for a nap.

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In our society, we get a lot of messages that once you figure out something, you need to go put it into practice. But that's skipping a critical step.

You've figured out you're in burnout and society would say, "okay well now you know what to do".

This skips the development and imagination phase, where you figure it out, yes. And then you experiment. Learn something new about you and experiment again. You find out what works FOR YOU.

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How do you rest when your inner critic keeps getting on your case? 1/4

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A volte il massimo equilibrio
è non crollare.
Non sto scomparendo.
Sto reggendo.

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Sometimes the greatest balance
is not collapsing.
I’m not disappearing.
I’m holding on.

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