Recovering from autistic burnout

Hi there! 

I'm a 17 year old female who's just been diagnosed with autism a couple months back and I'm looking for some advice. Essentially, I'm in my final year of high school and I'm really struggling a lot with my Spanish class. Last year I was really good at Spanish but now I'm failing and I don't really know what to do. I have a meltdown every time I enter the class and a lot of the work just makes me feel totally out of my depth. To further this, it feels like no matter how much revision I do, nothing works which has kind of caused me to give up, stop revising and just try and take a rest because I genuinely am struggling so much. 

My main issue is thought that I'm burnt out. I feel tired all the time, I've lost motivation to do literally any work and my ability to speak fluently and do anything in Spanish has diminished almost completely. I was top of the class last year and now I'm struggling. I've talked to my teacher but it still ultimately all boils down to everything being my fault. But I'm so burnt out and so tired all the time that having the energy to do any more work is hard. I don't want to fail and I don't really know how to care for myself when reaching burnout like this so I was wondering if any of you had tips on dealing with procrastination and burnout?

Have a nice day :)

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  • Hi. Slight smile

    Spanish often seems an afterthought in schools - the courses tend to be rather crammed-in, as if Spanish is just a poor relation to the more major European languages. So everything's rushed. More generally, I think that not a few teachers don't realise what for them is a passing thing - for example, pupils' understanding of the various tenses - can completely throw students and so hinder their progress. So, blaming you for everything might be a lazy cop-out - a good teacher would consider their own efforts first, and question these.

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  • Hi. Slight smile

    Spanish often seems an afterthought in schools - the courses tend to be rather crammed-in, as if Spanish is just a poor relation to the more major European languages. So everything's rushed. More generally, I think that not a few teachers don't realise what for them is a passing thing - for example, pupils' understanding of the various tenses - can completely throw students and so hinder their progress. So, blaming you for everything might be a lazy cop-out - a good teacher would consider their own efforts first, and question these.

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