"Be like everyone else"?

You mean...

- eat too much

- drink too much

- get burned-out by the noise & change to routine

- have to accommodate other people's bizarre and pointless rituals "because... Christmas"

- end up upsetting…

I get this as well which maybe a burn out. Wintery cold weather makes me feel tired and not motivated. 

To stop this look out of the window, drink water and try to do something calming. In the past I've thrown up.

Today and tomorrow warm day. 

Hope…

We are much nicer when the mask is off, it’s the mask that burns us out, we understand our neurokin.

I hope your okay after your burn out, enjoy playing and have a good weekend.

My weekend will probably be cleaning, clearing up and if I'm lucky five minutes to have some me time :) oh and I've got to take the rotten car for its mot.

I found that working for myself was the best way to actually get through this life! If you can. It doesn’t mean you won’t burn out, if you are the workaholic-type, but hopefully, you’ll soon learn your limits, and start to manage your life better.…

Wow. I can totally relate to the masking thing. I think that’s one of the main reasons I decided to get diagnosed: the psychological pressure to mask during meno-mania became unbearable - I just couldn’t do it anymore; I found I was burning out more often…

100% - being forced to play in the NT world burns me out.    Doing my own thing is far more efficient and productive. 

I do both depending on the situation.     I internalised so much that I developed a serious health problem from the stress.    Masking is simpler but more tiring working on 3 levels - public side, real side - and a third system translating between the two systems…