Published on 12, July, 2020
Keeping your diagnosis a secret is crazy and so sad. They should be proud to present an autistic role model to the children.
Regardless they should and could still provide reasonable adjustments, without needing to publicly announce them to everyone.
When you take your breaks is there somewhere you can go that is totally isolated to just decompress in peace? That sounds like it could be easy to implement if that sort of thing works for you. Because I think burnout is a "pressure valve" and it would…
What's worse is people don't realise the incredible amount of energy it takes to keep it up until too late - with burn-out just on the horizon.
Another edge is that life becomes infinitely more complicated as we get older - relationships, kids…
Hello everyone.
I'm feeling okay. Yesterday was pretty bad. The worst I've been.
I'm so grateful to you all. I couldn't get to see my doctor today, but I'll go tomorrow.
I'll take the week off and just be very quiet. And I won…
Hi gojojo!
Reading helped me also to frame who I was and to put my Aspie nature in context. Cynthia Kim’s website “musings of an Aspie” is a great resource and really accessible reading for NTs i hope ...
Congratulations on your diagnosis…
Well we will see, currently until proven otherwise it looks to me as carefully stage managed forum, to a hope we would burn out or make posts that could be banned as unreasonable.
Instead there is a common theme of similar experiences and wishes- don't…
Welcome aboard!
I suspect what you're experiencing is burn out - we are bad at the social game so we mask like crazy - but this takes a lot of energy. It's ok when we're young but as we get older, we just can't sustain it so cracks start to appear…
I think that my colleagues do like me and would miss me if I wasn't there. I can no longer work full time due to burn out, but I still do 5 hours a day and I work really hard.
I was brought up very strictly, to behave within certain parameters of…
Hello
I'm really struggling with PTSD, burn out, depression, severe fatigue after being in an abusive relationship. It's hard healing because I am very isolated and I didn't see the signs so people I was speaking to thought I was alright. Most therapists…
Sooo annoyed. Ended up in hospital and forgot to pack my headphones. Have ear buds to block out noise but nothing to play music on and not sure the ward would appreciate my Cat Burns deep dive out loud :) lol