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Curiosity goes a long way in autistic burnout recovery. Asking yourself things like: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵?
The answers to those questions will change over time. 𝙎𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨. The mindset here is that it’s okay to feel good. And that 𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.
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Today we are starting the Beyond Autistic Burnout course with our first orientation call. It's not too late to join us. Learn more and enroll: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/course-autistic-burnout-recovery/
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🧵Common warning signs of autistic burnout:
Either that it is coming soon, or that you’re in it.
Any individual may experience some of these, but probably never all of them.
In no particular order. -->
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As a person with AuDHD who has experienced burnout multiple times and is now eleven years burnout free, I’ve used these phrases to help me improve a number of different areas of my life:
- When I’m happy, let myself be happy.
- When I’m tired, let myself be tired.
- When I’m sick, let myself be sick. (i.e. Don’t push through and overdo it.)
- When I’m excited, let myself be excited.
- When I’m feeling good, let myself feel good.
Etc.
One really important tool during autistic burnout recovery is 𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚. Being able to respond to yourself with compassion. Even when things go wrong, even when you make poor choices, even when you make reasonable choices and it all goes kablooey.
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I’ve gotten amazingly positive feedback on my course, Beyond Autistic Burnout, so much that it even surprised me.
The testimonials I share here and on the info page for the course are from the first round participants, who found it genuinely useful, and often used words like “life changing.”
Did it fix all the problems in their lives? No, of course not. --->
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Autistic burnout is the final straw. It's the most obvious, physical sign of things that have been going on below the surface for a long time.
So what is the root of the issue? Does any of this sound familiar?
You've probably been feeling stressed or over-taxed for a while, but it didn't feel like there was anything that could give, any way to let up, anything you could get out of doing. 1/7
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If you're interested in the Beyond Autistic Burnout course, and are also in what I call the deep depths of burnout, and you're asking yourself, "I’m so burned out, how will I even do another online course?" That is valid, and also, there's no pressure. --->
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Struggling with autistic burnout? Learn the critical secret to getting out for good in this video: https://youtu.be/FbeRrkVLg2I?si=mvV4sRRHx9oC7DKn
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When I feel guilty about resting, about taking time off, I have to remind myself, over and over, that rest is not optional. Rest is not laziness. Rest is not a luxury. It is not giving in. Rest is a survival necessity. We're not robots and we're not immune to needing downtime. All living beings need rest and restoration periodically - daily, seasonally and yearly.
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For Autistics in autistic burnout, recovery requires 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨, not more pushing through. That would perpetuate the cycle into another burnout. But it is entirely possible to learn new skills even when it feels like you aren't able to right now. 1/2
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𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is another skill that is necessary for recovering from autistic burnout. In my workshops and courses, I give frameworks, and share the method, but the 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 are going to be different for all of us.
Because we’re different people: my personality is different, my background is different, my race is different, my gender expression is different, my environment is different, the people I’m with are different. 1/3
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As Autistics, we often learn at a very early age to simply numb our experiences, to numb the perceptions of how bad it really is. Or we fight the signals and everything feels like you’re battling the world constantly, all the time. Either way, it takes an extraordinary amount of energy. It’s exhausting. 1/4
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Another invaluable skill to fully recover from autistic burnout is 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩. You can develop the skill of attuning to what your internal state is in the moment, of what your needs are, what your emotions are, what your desires are.
Because you can't go towards something that you want if you don't know what it is you want.
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I’m Heather, I’m Autistic and ADHD, and I know this burnout stuff so intimately because I’ve been through two major, life-halting burnouts, and a dozen smaller ones throughout my life.
I searched for years to find anything that would provide more than minor, temporary relief. I tried just about everything to get my life back. I struggled for years to find anything that actually helped, and threw away what didn’t. 1/6
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Autistic burnout isn't the problem, it's the solution.
It's the major wake up call, the kick in the ass, the hit the wall, rock bottom moment that will get you to actually finally fix the things in your life that don't work, that haven't been working for a long time.
It's showing you that your life doesn't work for you. 1/3
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Trying new things is uncomfortable, but it is 𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 when you're recovering from autistic burnout.
I like to think about getting comfortable with discomfort. With discomfort that is leading to good things. Because as you’re trying new and different things, new ways of thinking, new ways of doing things, new ways of thinking about yourself, a lot of it is going to be unfamiliar. 1/2
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Rest is more than sleeping. Anything that gives you energy counts as restorative.
Here are more than 80 ideas of activities from real Autistics, to feel good, so you have the energy to cope when things happen that are more challenging to deal with: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/restorative-activities-autistics/
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Whether you work with me, with someone else, or figure it out on your own, there is no version of autistic burnout recovery where you get to skip the deep work and just get handed a burnout-free life. But you don’t have to muddle through it on your own or do it without a map.
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To recover from two major, life-halting burnouts (and a dozen smaller ones throughout my life), I went whole hog, making huge changes fairly quickly. But I don't think that was necessary.
In fact, it was 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬, 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡, 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙪𝙥 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚, that made the biggest difference.
And I didn't get my life back. By which I mean, I didn't go back to the damaging, ableist lifestyle that had hurt me over and over. 1/3
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Getting enough energy back to keep masking isn't true burnout recovery. Really getting out of autistic burnout means reducing the dissonance between the version you've presented to the world and your inner experiences.
For more on this topic, check out my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2jv3iSInkU
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The version of the person that comes out the other side of autistic burnout is someone who’s more themselves, not less.
Someone who’s more honest about what they need, more boundaries, and less willing to push through things that don’t work for them. 1/2
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Most of the strategies for autistic burnout recovery I’ll be talking about, are going to be things you can do even when you don’t have large chunks of supported rest. I’ve had it both ways. 1/4
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The single most impactful thing that a supporter can do is to believe the person in burnout, and to say so not once, but repeatedly, in simple terms: “This is real. This makes sense. You’re not making it up.” 1/3
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There's some common misconceptions around the causes of burnout, but I'd like to explain what's really going on.
Read more on my blog: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/2024/09/01/the-most-common-misconception-about-burnout/
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A comment I got in one my recent conversations around the 5 stages of Burnout and Recovery workshop: “Our internalized ableism tells us that we can’t allow things to hurt or to be hard. I often have to remind myself that my disability can actually be disabling.” My response to this --->
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The 5 Stages of Autistic Burnout -->
1. The Narrowing - when burnout is approaching, but it could still be prevented, if identified early, and action is taken.
2. The Deep Depths - when burnout has moved from "impending" to "full force," and it's often what people mean when they talk about hitting a wall or crashing.
3. The Unraveling - early recovery. The stage where the real work of dismantling what caused the burnout in the first place actually begins.
A question I've gotten around burnout: “I feel like in order to heal and to go through the stages, I need to drastically change my engagement in social life. This makes me feel so lonely. I struggle at social settings, but at the same time, it’s really what I want. I am very confused. Do you have any thoughts on this?”
My answer, as an AuDHD coach and someone who's been through two life-halting burnouts and multiple smaller ones... --->
There are five key, holistic, interrelated solutions specifically for the challenges that we face as Autistics and AuDHDers, especially when you've struggled for decades. They are --->
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