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Struggles at work

Vickstick

Hi all. I'm late diagnosed Autism and ADHD (diagnosed at the age of 49) and I work as a full time Admin Team Lead. The struggle I'm having is that after a particularly busy work day, I find that I'm pretty much useless the day after. Like yesterday I had back to back meetings and staff supervisions, catch ups with various people and phonelines to cover. Super busy and hectic. Today I can barely function. I have some stuff that I need to get done, not a whole lot, but it's nearly 11am and I can't even get started. I'm medicated for ADHD but even that is not helping today. I can barely even talk today.

Does anyone else get like this? It's so bad, it's almost painful.

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  • Hi fellow 'Lateling'

    What you describe is dysregulation after too much stimuli. This can result in autistic burnout if not mitigated for.

    Do you have any reasonable adjustments in place. It could be as simple as task organisation to spread your workload in manageable chunks.

    Do you have an occupational health derpartment, if so, request a refferal.

    Have you discussed with you manager the fact you are AuDHD?

    This may just be a temporary blip at a particularly busy period.

    To answer your question I get that fatigued feeling every evening and understand what you mean.

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  • Hi fellow 'Lateling'

    What you describe is dysregulation after too much stimuli. This can result in autistic burnout if not mitigated for.

    Do you have any reasonable adjustments in place. It could be as simple as task organisation to spread your workload in manageable chunks.

    Do you have an occupational health derpartment, if so, request a refferal.

    Have you discussed with you manager the fact you are AuDHD?

    This may just be a temporary blip at a particularly busy period.

    To answer your question I get that fatigued feeling every evening and understand what you mean.

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  • in reply to Mr T

    Hi there.

    I have got reasonable adjustments in place like working from home if I need to but unfortunately no occupational health department. My manager is pretty good and fully understands how things affect me. We are coming up for a particularly busy period so I will definitely be having a discussion with her. I also have massive guilt feelings if I can't function properly which doesn't help. I always feel like I should be busy even if it's a quiet time. I think I'm still trying to navigate this crazy train that is AuDHD! However, it's good to know that this isn't unusual for us.