Glad to hear that you're OK, Tom, and also glad to hear that your sabbatical is the result of of a positive choice to rebalance your life and improve your well-being.

Going too far down the rabbit hole can be very easy to do, and it can sneak up on…

Oh Ellie, I do worry about you and his complete refusal to understand, he'll burn you out like that. I think you may have to be more pig headed and tell him he has to cook and entertain some of the unwanted arrangements...

Sorry to hear your going threw this. It is the other way round for me I am neurodiverse husband is not, he struggles to understand my point of view. We have autistic children it can be very overwhelming sometimes and I just feel like I need to run away…

Hi Star, I realise that this post of yours was submitted over 2 years ago, but it would be really interesting and helpful to know how you are coping to this present day. I have recently been late diagnosed with autism at the age of 28. I have a long history…

Hi Imogen

I've only signed up to NAS today & just seen your post. It was almost like someone had written the last 18 months of my life!

I'm in exactly the same situation with my child.  Same age, same burnout , same diagnosis time-line, also…

Oran G. Utan said:

If the project manager is responsible for the technical aspects of a project, and the line manager for the team that will work on said project, then you add more moving parts to the machine, hence more room for malfunction. If the two…

Welcome, AJ!

Sorry I'm fashionably late for the party - I'm catching up after a bit of a break, and I have a bit of a scattergun way of going through new posts.

Firstly - don't worry about "writing essays" - they've always put up with me around…

Something you might want to think about is your masking - we all do it - where we present a more 'user friendly' face to the NTs around us so we appear to 'fit in'.    You probably don't notice it, but it's burning an enormous amount of brain…

The world is in anarchy right now. Its burning and no one can see it