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Watch "Different Generations going to Work" on YouTube
Watch "Conveying TONE over TEXT is HARD 📱🤳#adhd #autism #text" on YouTube
Watch "Autistic Awkwardness with Group Conversation #shorts #autism #autisticcommunication #audhd" on YouTube
Watch "This Is How Oil Rigs Are Built In The Middle Of Deep Ocean😨" on YouTube
Watch "What Happens When A Queen Bee Dies? 🐝| #joerogan #jre #bee #honey" on YouTube
Watch "CPTSD & HIGH MASKING AUTISM SERIES: 5 SIGNS YOU MAY BE AN UNDIAGNOSED AUTISTIC WOMAN | DR. KIM SAGE" on YouTube
Watch "The Problem with Masking ADHD and Autism (burnout, etc.)" on YouTube
If you’re going through autistic+ADHD (auDHD) burnout, you may experience:
*anxiety
*depression
*extreme lethargy
*inability to ask for help
**memory issues
**loss of words or selective mutism
**reduced executive functioning (e.g., staying organized, making decisions)
**trouble bouncing back from daily tasks
*suicidal thoughts
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**Feelings of fatigue and constant exhaustion.
*Low self-confidence coupled with high self-criticism.
*Lack of motivation and drive to complete tasks.
*Anger and resentment toward responsibilities, obligations, and other people.
What do we need to exit the burnout realm:
Stimming and sensory stimulation/deprivation
Food, water, medications
Physical safety (e.g., a home, your bedroom, a place to stay that is away from harm)
Social support (e.g., can someone help you with chores? managing your schedule? explaining neurotypical norms going on around you? doing tasks that require engaging with others like making phone calls?)
Time for special interests
Time for sleep, recovery, and rest
If someone you know is experiencing auDHD burnout, be gentle with them, they're already barely holding it together with straws and Scotch tape.
Don't add to the burnout, requiring us to submit more energy spoons than necessary, and understand that the size of your energy spoons are different from those of neurodivergent people. We have less spoons to dole out, and they're tea spoons compared to your serving spoons.
Let us rest. Send us home early from work or class, let us do our work in the safety of our home environment during burnout phases. Everyday interactions that are energizing for neurotypical people are extremely energy draining for those with auDHD, especially during a burnout phase.
Help them if you are willing and able. Those of us with auDHD most of the time don't know or understand what exactly our needs are. Having a support system around that can see what is needed and offer assistance could mean the difference in those of us with auDHD between crashing or being able to recharge.
Be kind. This isn't the time to bully or make fun of the person with auDHD. There is no need to be a jerk in the first place, but we live in the real world, with real, neurotypical people who do not understand how our brains work so differently as to cause situations like burnout that affect others around the person with audhd. Just be kind, those experiencing burnout are already fragile emotionally and probably spiritually. Being a part of our support system as opposed to someone who is making it more difficult to survive this experience could mean the difference between recovery or crashing.
For those with auDHD, find support groups online. There are so many other adults experiencing auDHD and burnout in today's demanding neurotypical world. You're not alone in this.
Watch "A Guide to Workplace Inclusion for Autistic Employees (Autism at Work)" on YouTube
A professional manner requirement at the workplace is like requiring somebody in a wheelchair to walk in because that's the policy, but they're in a wheelchair, but the policy is to walk in. Get it? Neurotypical people cannot fully understand the neurodiverse brain, just as we cannot fully understand the neurotypical brain
Watch "Why Autistic Unemployment Is So High | Claire Barnett | TEDxVanderbiltUniversity" on YouTube
Neurotypical people often hold people with ASD to the same social standards when that is not a fair gauge for judgements. A few tips to be more accommodating for people with ASD:
Adapt your processes
Provide questions in advance
Don't use social skills as standard for competence
Provide clear communication
Provide accommodations
Give grace, this one is for everyone.
💡 This has happened to me as well. I know I've tried to mirror the behaviors of neurotypical people and it backfires OFTEN! Not all the time, but definitely often enough where I need (mental health/spiritual) recovery time. I just heard Dory's voice... "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." But it is sad that neurotypical people don't always catch what's going on in the neurodivergent brain and see our reactions as inappropriate when we're trying to do what we thought is required to meet societal expectations.
An autistic person says that something bothers them.
A neurotypical person does it just to make fun of the autistic person's reaction.
The autistic person gets angry.
The neurotypical person insists that they were "kidding" and "didn't mean anything bad by it" therefore the autistic person is "too sensitive".
The autistic person then learns to accept that this is just how people act.
The autistic person begins treating people the same way.
Neurotypical people then use this as evidence that autistic people lack empathy and don't respect boundaries. The fact that the autistic person was "kidding" or "didn't mean anything bad by it" means nothing.
The golden rule, which is to treat others how you want to be treated, applies to neurodivergent people also. Neurotypical people don't seem to understand that. But neurodivergent people are the ones labeled as defective.
Fog happens.
Have you ever been asked, "where do you see yourself in five years?" If you have, some of you might have a clear image of your life for the next 5-10 years, and some of us can barely see hours, days, or weeks ahead, let alone years. And of course, many people exist somewhere at various points on that spectrum of forward-thinking visibility. If you're one of those who have trouble seeing how you want your life to be or seeing ahead more than a few days or weeks, you are not alone.
I'm grateful to have surrounded myself with people who are forward thinking in hopes it will someday rub off on me, lol. For real, though, it's a struggle for me to plan ahead, see ahead, all of that. My ADHD doesn't help, and my ASD (testing phase) makes it more difficult for me to understand and utilize forward thinking without a little assistance. If you're in a similar boat, luckily we live in a time of technology where we have apps and ways to help us plan better than we would otherwise. So, if you haven't tried any of those, now's a great time! That's not a cure-all by any means. Even with planners and calendars, I can be future-blind and only able to see the hand in front of my face "when the fog is thick."
The point of this post is to tell you, it's ok if you don't know what your life will look like in several years. My logical-thinking brain says no one can truly know what the future holds. Make plans and goals and enjoy each day you are given. Whether you have your life mapped out to the T, or if you don't even know what you're doing for dinner this evening, it's ok!
The Real Reason You Don’t Believe I’m Autistic – The Autism Pastor
Giant Structure Found Lurking in Deep Space Challenges Understanding of The Universe : ScienceAlert
Watch "Why AUTISM And Mainstream Workplaces Don't Mix - Improve The Workplace For Autistic People" on YouTube
Watch "What My Late-in-Life Autism Diagnosis Taught Me about Change | Anna Kutbay | TEDxGeorgetown" on YouTube
Watch "Everyone is a bit ADHD #adhd #adhdbrain #neurodivergent" on YouTube
Watch "How to Spot Autism in High Masking Autistic Women - Diagnosis Barriers" on YouTube
Watch "High Functioning Autism (It's NOT what you think!!) | Patrons Choice" on YouTube
Watch "Decoding the Mystery: Strong Evidence that the Horn of Plenty Logo did exist" on YouTube
Just sayin'!
Watch "They’re altering history…😳 #joerogan #joeroganexperience #podcast #joeroganpodcast" on YouTube
Cat pervert! 🤣🤣🤣
https://youtu.be/1wCIX78sb8I?si=9WKV9LhipqUjj3gB
https://www.1946themovie.com/