Autistic Burnout isn’t just exhaustion - it’s chronic, systemic, and fundamentally different from career or parental burnout.
It happens after years of masking, unmet needs, and relentless sensory, emotional, and social demands.
It can last months, years, or even decades.
It happens after years of masking, unmet needs, and relentless sensory, emotional, and social demands.
It can last months, years, or even decades.
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it's really tied up with my depression, which i think is both clinical depression as well as a side effect of my autism
It's already been years. OMG...I can't do DECADES! 😭😭😭😭😭
The solution isn’t just ‘"rest" - it’s structural change.
Autistic humans don’t burn out because we are autistic. We burn out because we are forced to exist in environments that don’t support us.