What is autistic burnout? Its complete exhaustion that affects basic executive functioning, usually caused by the massive effort it takes masking our autism all the time to cope with the world and appear ‘normal’ on the outside.
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When the autistic spills out
I’m not sure if it’s because I’m under a lot of stress with this whole leg drama or what, but wee things keep popping up – autism’s perhaps. I mostly usually manage to tick along as normal (and keep the differences to myself or swallow up the autism’s into my general daily behaviour – yeah exhausting but that’s how we roll.. all day every day.) lately they are spilling out and becoming rather noticeable to me.
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