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Autistic Inertia

Dawn

Just how do you get out of it? Functioning for work purposes but finding it very difficult to get going with anything else. This isn't good.

I've had this before, but it's never gone on like this. I do note that while the body is immobile and just about eats the brain is in overdrive on a lot if things I need to kick into action but the kick isn't there.

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    Interesting, I’m sort of the same. I find I get accustomed to a way of living more and more over time and it gets harder to bust out of it.

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    Now that I know I'm autistic, I can see I've had mini bouts of burnout and inertia in the distant past and longer ones in more recent years. This is protracted though. I'm sure it's getting worse as I get older.

    In between them, I'm quite an industrious person ordinarily...inertia maybe going the other way into hyperfocus; too busy on a single thing for my own good.

    I've been through a lot in recent years and I'm wondering whether the trauma of dealing with MH or feeling in limbo with another personal issue which has dragged on has something to do with it, or whether I'm still burnt out too.

    What you say about other people is good though. I have some Ukrainian guests arriving next week. Maybe looking after them will put a rocket up my bum and make me look after me too.