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?
Long-term burn out! As an autistic person, i've had that throughout my early teens to the beginning of late teens. You should get yourself a diagnosis.
Me too! I got diagnosed but still don't have the adequate support to combat the burn out. I did manage to get to a point where I felt my old self again but then situational problems outside of my control but that effect me has triggered burn out again. I now can't remember how I got out of it last time 😢 hope you have found the support you need
@@wanderingpanic7429 Thanks for your comment. I am still waiting for my test for almost 2.5 years .my burn out is so bad and i also can't walk properly and my housing situation is also very stressful. I am suicidal many days to be brutally honest and i have no real support concerning the Autism but one person from a mental health charity is helping me a bit. I think the only thing that truly helps health is raw vegan diet/or high raw diet or juicing. I am so desperate i am contemplating a juice feast for 2024 for as long as it takes until i can walk a bit better and i am not dying of emotional pain/stress and fatigue etc. Let me know if your interested in doing juice or anything and i can tell you what i know if you have any questions. If the body is not digesting solid food then it has way for energy to heal and recover. Or simple raw food is easier to digest too. I have done 30 days in the past on juice and a few months raw vegan among other things. I def felt less burn out and way less depression
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.
I'm in the same situation as you and this has made me think about things in a new light. Do you notice your pain gets worse when you are burning out? I discovered I get pain flares when I'm suppressing anger unknowingly. If I recognise it and release the emotion, the pain goes down markedly. It's so difficult to work out what's actually happening. Is the autistic burnout causing an ME flare, or is an ME flare bringing about an autistic burnout, or are both things happening simultaneously and feeding each other? Maybe it's different each time. So confusing 😒
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
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.
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.
this is possible, yes. many researchers believe it can take months or years to recover from burnout if not properly “treated” - something which is functionally impossible if you are a working class autist, as it is generally not possible to stop working/cut hours for long enough to recuperate properly.
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
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.
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!
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!
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.
Shelby, I am 73 years old. I have had these burnouts off and on my whole life, but I didn’t know the cause! I assumed I was just a weakling and I needed to try harder. Last month, I noticed I couldn’t talk to people without starting to get tears in my eyes and choking in my throat. I finally freaked out and went into a doctors office ( I couldn’t cope with using a phone). I just said I was in desperate need of an antidepressant and was he accepting new Medicare patients. ( I was able to do this because a family member let me take their Prozac for two weeks and it seemed to help). So, I am taking generic Prozac and I am still weird but now I can drive my car without falling apart. I can communicate with clerks in stores and even smile at other shoppers. I don’t think Prozac is supposed to help autism????? But it pulled me out of my state of thinking I couldn’t get out of bed because I couldn’t move my muscles!!! I would force myself to lift my arm and be surprised it actually moved, then I would roll out of bed mainly because my bladder was full…. I am so grateful I have discovered what autism is!!! It has all been from RU-vid and listening to people share their experiences and me realizing there was an explanation for my perceived failures. Such a relief.
How do i get my skills back instantly im getting so fed up with losing them everytime i finally get good at something. Because im losing all my skill suddenly it has lead me having a massive hatred towards people who are better than me at things. I put so much time into practice like close to constant practice but i suck suddenly while people who haven’t practiced a day in their entire life are improving. Thats not fair. I would love to be someone who isnt me.
This is awesome. Do you have any videos on how to get out of a burn out when it has gotten very severe? I am in the process of getting a diagnosis and I have no idea I even had autism until I was in my mid 20s. I have been in a burn out for the past two years. It has resulted in me, losing a lot of skills that I once had and just constantly feeling overwhelmed. I also developed fibromyalgia and then having a lot of issues just even caring about myself let alone my health. I had no idea what with this is called until I looked into, my therapist suggestion. Unfortunately, I am kind of forced to mask in my life because I have a family and support system that does not believe autism is a disability. I have basically given up trying to communicate with them and I have been becoming very depressed. Part of the reason I have been depressed is because I know no one ever is going to understand me, or even want to put the effort into understanding me. but because they don’t understand I have no help whatsoever. How do I get out of this burn out by myself? I am actually scared I have lost over 60 pounds and I constantly get sick when I smell food. I know now that this is because I have been burned out for a few years now, but I just want to be happy again, and I have no idea how to even get there at this point.
Soooo could my "depression" be this instead??? I always blamed depression but more and more I'm realizing undiagnosed autism might be a core of a lot of my issues....... 😮
