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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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  • Dawn, you speak very much of my life experience too.  I'd always been aware of some sort of cyclical boom/bust attitude to getting things done.  Seemed to work in a 6-7 year time loop.  As I got older, it got more and more difficult to "restart" myself.  Eventually, it seems that I haven't actually been able to "return" to where I was.  I've taken a sideways move....eventually....still making adjustments just to function "survivably"in the NT world.

    My advice, based on my experience = don't wait too long for things just to "right" themselves.  After my profound burnout, it simply didn't happen and I deeply regret waiting for so long to realise that I needed change, not just the "kick" that had always worked in the past.

  • in reply to Deleted User

    I so totally relate to this, unfortunately for both of us! Except the sideways move and functioning in the world, as I am not... But the time loop and not being able to restart or return to where we were.

    And yes, waiting for burnout to just right itself did not work for me either!

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  • in reply to Deleted User

    I think functionality is different for us. Sometimes I function in some ways, other times not so much. In the past I have functioned better, but never as well as some people seem to. Yet there are certain things I am good at, just those are generally not the things which are most useful for modern life!

    Sometimes things break because they were not right somehow. Although it can be hard to see and accept that. Finding ways round it, or ways to avoid certain things, can work better than pushing through the same way most people manage. I sometimes think so far outside the box I don't even realise there was a box which most people were thinking in!

    Work in progress is good. Work stalled with no actual progress for years not so much... But sometimes progress is suddenly possible again and can happen.

  • in reply to AuTriker

    I am looking on the bright side - but don't mistake my optimism for bona fide and irrefutable functionality.  Some aspects of my life remain decidedly broken / undone.  I'm very much still a work in progress.  I wish us both good luck and God's speed.