Im wondering because i feel like fighting to move all the time. Like im a prisoner in my own body. I only get so mucj done in a day and overall im feeling very sub human
Im wondering because i feel like fighting to move all the time. Like im a prisoner in my own body. I only get so mucj done in a day and overall im feeling very sub human
Wow! This is brilliant, thank you. I love that solution based on minimal activity.
I did use that once when I had hours of work today.
I just told myself to do one millisecond.
I could agree to that.
When I started I just kept going.
very long but interesting, basically what's happening to me when I'm at home trying to do things like chores, or play on PC, and if I'm doing something any interruption might make me freeze as well.
question is what to do about it? It feels like it eased a bit compared to how I was a year ago, but it's still extremely annoying.
I tend to freeze standing up on a way somewhere, I often end up with stiff joints and muscles
I came across this tonight. Made for eye opening reading: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631596/full
Scroll down to "results"
The getting moving is tough. Sometimes i feel as though there is a magnet ñear me and another on my ass...its a never ending battle
I am sorry you feel like you are in burnout. Give yourself as much time as you need with minimal expectations and engage in some autistic self care.
Sometimes the pace of life is quite fast - so your batteries need recharging (obviously metaphorically).
Have you heard of energy accounting? Using this tool in everyday life may help reduce the intensity of burnout.
https://www.purpleella.com/2018/06/07/energy-accounting/
I hope this helps.
I did so little and what i do still seems so. I feel like a fucking aweful dad cause im in this state alot. How on earth do i cope knowing i do little compared to wife...its seriously got me suicidal and i dont know if i had easy life or im hitting autism head on
Ive always done very little. The more i come to do the more im breaking down. It feels like ive dodged life and dont know how to cope doing more....feels like facing a lie and that im not up to basic life.
Those around should be told it's paramount not to push you, taking it slow is a must, and it would be nice if they helped you more with blocking outsiders and everyday things
I wasn't depressed either, it was more like coming and overwhelming feeling of sadness making me stay in bed for 3 days in a row, leaving it to go to toilet and snatch soemthing from fridge.
I'm slowly rebuilding my routine now, and getting things done again
What I'm not sure is if I'm imagining it,or some memories are coming back too, after I thought I forgot it during burnout, especially vocabularies in languages I don't use often. As if part of my brain was switched off for duration of burnout.
But that's it burn out can almost have you in a state of paralysis. You are not the 'scummiest guy's, you're just autistic and handling too much. You've been doing too good a job a while - and now you can't and a break.
Who have you got around you? Any one there to take the load to stop the free fall while you recover?
Dont do near enough for it to be burn out..more like the flame isnt lit. Im sorry for asking so much i just feel like the scummiest guy on the planet right now and my life is in freefall
Well, I've certainly been feeling all of the above a while. I do do executive functioning, but just about and very, very slowly. Not much achieved in a day and hasn't been for a while. Been through too much over the past couple of years. Demand has certainly exceeded capacity. I'm not in the least bit depressed but everything is in slow motion while the brain is in hyper drive about deeper stuff.
Normally, I'm quite active, but I have hit this before...it'll bounce back with enough rest. Gone on a bit long this time though.
Isn’t burnout defined ‘as emotional, cognitive and physical exhaustion resulting from continual stress/masking and demands that have exceeded your capacity to cope in a majority neurotypical world? Burnout is usually long term, therefore I think it can be differentiated from autistic inertia as inertia usually relates to the energy required to switch tasks.
That a synonym for 'burn out'? Sounds like it.
I think what you are talking about seems more like autistic inertia:
https://cypopps.tumblr.com/post/681645721223593984/autistic-inertia-is-an-autism-experience-that/amp.
or ''go with the flow'', don't fight to get sth specific done, just do something alongside ''flowing''
yes lack of motivation is debilitating, i had 3 years like that suffering from burnout, the omnly thing I could manage was to endure, survive, live on,
and then when I thought I hit 'the bottom'' and it's over alll that was left from going against grain and fighting stopped doing it, and suprisingly from that moment I was getting better
just no push, no rush
I associate that with a feeling of ‘lacking motivation’.
I used to think it was depression but it might be because of ASD. I simply don’t know why I feel certain things. I’m powerless over what feelings visit and my best shot is to fight them as little as possible. I heard a phrase once ‘float, don’t fight’. I’m not sure but I think it applies to unwelcome feelings.
