Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi
I have been trying to work out if I am experiencing Shutdowns, I am still not sure
I have been trying to find information online but its pretty unspecific. Very few videos about it either.
If you experience shutdowns, please
I want to determine if I am indeed experiencing shutdowns.
Get your experiences added to this collection .
Thanks for any responses,advice,ideas
Someone in another thread posted this blog article on shutdowns: https://spectra.blog/news-views/please-understand-me-my-walls-came-falling-down-autistic-shutdown-what-does-it-mean/. It was quite illuminating to me.
I could see my 1 hour to 1 day shutdowns quite clearly. But I hadn't seen these longer ones that they talk about. I'd labelled that 'not coping'. I'd been having a not coping well week that got worse Thurs. Reading the article relaxed me and meant I stopped pushing myself to fix things and be ok in my head emotionally. And then I felt better.
It also totally illuminated MrGG's shutdowns for me, which was hard. Helped me see howmuch he's struggling, but also how hard it is going to be for us to get together.