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Burnout pre/post diagnosis

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Hi

Just wondering if anyone has a similar experience? Late diagnosis but asked for assessment after couple of incidences at work of going non-verbal when facing stressful situation and generally feeling overwhelmed and stressed at work. I was able to give the impression at work that i was ok. Since diagnosis seem to be struggling more and coping less with job and life in general. Almost as if permission has been given. Makes me feel a fraud! Only line manager aware of diagnosis but don't want it to seem i am 'using' it as some kind of excuse given the timeline of 'apparently coping-diagnosis-not coping'. I am not sure I am explaining this very well

Thanks

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  • As  has said  and going on what I have come to learn about late diagnosis and work related stress (yep me too!) what you're experiencing isn't unusual.

    I would suggest carefully getting a bit of a hang on concepts of "burnout" and "meltdown" might be useful for you.  I would add a caveat that one can be pulled into the problem rather than the solution - especially since a whole lot of this sort of stuff is defined in terms of defect and pathology which can be a right old mire to get stuck in! 

    Welcome to the Quality Street tin of autism diagnostic criteria....

    My clever big sister, who is diabetic, has the amazing (but life saving) talent of taking sweets from the tin - looking at them - recollecting what they are like and putting them back uneaten!

    Anyway if you do decide to unwrap one - maybe look at one "problem uncovered" at a time and then reframe it to that not being the problem - the problem is to find a solution if that makes sense?

    I and perhaps others post diagnosis have trawled thro' chunks of experiences and had to reframe them from a reperspective of now knowing myself to be autistic.  I was/am in denial about that for a long time!!  

    I have recently become aware of the topic of delayed emotional processing - which research suggested is commonly experienced with autism.

    Delayed emotional processing in my experience separates one emotionally from the present - maybe a few hours, days or even years according to what research suggests.

    I am coming to think that post diagnosis there is a bit of a dam burst of emotional processing to go thro'

    So I wish calmer waters to you   and anyone else reading this (unless you like and are good at surfing that is!).

    Autism is a lifelong condition - this is being in the game for the long haul - it does get easier :-)

    Best Wishes

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  • As  has said  and going on what I have come to learn about late diagnosis and work related stress (yep me too!) what you're experiencing isn't unusual.

    I would suggest carefully getting a bit of a hang on concepts of "burnout" and "meltdown" might be useful for you.  I would add a caveat that one can be pulled into the problem rather than the solution - especially since a whole lot of this sort of stuff is defined in terms of defect and pathology which can be a right old mire to get stuck in! 

    Welcome to the Quality Street tin of autism diagnostic criteria....

    My clever big sister, who is diabetic, has the amazing (but life saving) talent of taking sweets from the tin - looking at them - recollecting what they are like and putting them back uneaten!

    Anyway if you do decide to unwrap one - maybe look at one "problem uncovered" at a time and then reframe it to that not being the problem - the problem is to find a solution if that makes sense?

    I and perhaps others post diagnosis have trawled thro' chunks of experiences and had to reframe them from a reperspective of now knowing myself to be autistic.  I was/am in denial about that for a long time!!  

    I have recently become aware of the topic of delayed emotional processing - which research suggested is commonly experienced with autism.

    Delayed emotional processing in my experience separates one emotionally from the present - maybe a few hours, days or even years according to what research suggests.

    I am coming to think that post diagnosis there is a bit of a dam burst of emotional processing to go thro'

    So I wish calmer waters to you   and anyone else reading this (unless you like and are good at surfing that is!).

    Autism is a lifelong condition - this is being in the game for the long haul - it does get easier :-)

    Best Wishes

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