• RE: What Do I Do now?

    This is something I worry about as I personally don't feel very ritualistic either. Strangely, mine are also about pavements although I like to always cross the same roads at certain places and feel agitated if I can't for any reason. I also do a lot…

  • RE: Slowing down!

    Hi Andrew

    I'm 50 and diagnosed over a year ago, I am struggling with anxiety and life in general. I don't really have any motivation, I still have my job, but that often just feels like a time filler.

    I think modern life is getting so much harder…

  • RE: Working

    Ha thank you! :P I'm not sure I'll be able to do it either lol but I can try. I do need to stop doing so much all at once, that defos burns me out.

    And thank you for the book recommendation - this sounds like a really good book. Defos one I'd…

  • hi..Mum to 16 year old recently diagnose ASD - GCSE refusal

    Hi all, 

    Very new here. My son was diagnosed ASD in January and at the time of his last set of year 11 mocks  in feb  he suffered a burn out. has not been back to school since. He has however done some revision with our support - has talked positively about…

  • RE: i'm going to cry i'm in so much pain

    Sometimes the pain we hide can burn like afire inside.
    Open up and let it out.

  • RE: Living with an autistic partner

    He needs that space and also your support, if you can give it. But things aren’t always what they seem. For example, you say he’s become distant. But that’s from your perspective in relation to you. But in reality, he’s becoming more connected, to who…

  • RE: The sudden rise of AuDHD: what is behind the rocketing rates of this life-changing diagnosis?

    I think this is correct. Being furloughed or working from home during 2020-21 seemed to make a lot of people realise how much they were masking or on the verge of burn out at work when they had to go back to ‘the office’ again. I’m pretty sure one of…

  • RE: Masking

    I had similar experience with the difference that I didn’t know my entire life, why I’m different. Since I explored the condition enough and got enough confirmation that this is me, I started thinking seriously, where do I actually fit and what should…

  • RE: Chronic Fatigue?

    I had this type of fatique and also thought that it is there to stay.

    But I was really stressed out and once I lost reasons to be stressed, now I am back to "normal".

    This sounds like something else - have you burned out at work? Are you stressing…

  • RE: Save the worms

    I did give a very burned out looking bee some sugary water to drink two summers ago. Which is remarkable for me, as I have a massive fear of buzzy flying things. This one was outside on the concrete so I knew I could flee once I'd helped it. It did seem…