I am in Autism Burn Out personally, yet also on the edge of hitting it professionally. It is a strange feeling to be going towards Burn Out from two different directions.
I have done a video over on Patreon, a free video to explain my personal Burn Out, and this is talking about my Burn Out due to work. But the bottom line here is, I need to take better care of myself.
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I thought about when you mentioned how society has expectations, I feel like I.T is a forced onto people, and they have to understand how to code, I can't code it's to hard.
I did find I liked using the modelling software, I used a free one called Blender, I uploaded a 12 second video online of a duck with headphones I modelled, I was surprised to get over 150 views, close to the 2nd day got over 1k people viewed it, and people kept commenting saying duck a lot, a total of 2.1k have viewed my duck with headphones on.
I did learn people that code struggle with modelling, and people that model struggle with coding.
Thank you for sharing.
The water analogy is perfect for my work situation. They keep adding new steps to protocols and more tasks.. it's getting to be very challenging to deal with.
For the rest of the Americans watching, treacle is molasses.
And this is very much what burnout looks like for me too. I would also bet that performing tasks we do to a incredibly high standard is probably really common among autistic people. I know I have crazy high standards for myself.
I'd been surfing Autistic /overall burnout since the hectic long work shifts at a meat factory at Christmas, and I was REALLY proud of myself for not succumbing to actually stopping!
So yeah…..got made redundant in April when the company went bust, but I'd already hit EXTREME meltdown point a week before that and got myself signed off sick thinking I'd be ok again in a few weeks.
Yeah…… that's gone well 😉……. lost my routine, can't get myself into a new one and generally not letting myself rest as much as I should be cos my ADHD part of my brain won't let me even tho the Autistic side is gently nudging it to tell it "we need to rest……"
Without the ADHD meds I went onto last year, every single day is like wading through treacle due to AuDHD and other health conditions………but with them they keep kinda pushing me on in unhealthy ways at times….. finding the balance is proving elusive so far……
Good video and thanks for sharing. When you mentioned about liking your colleagues, although not necessarily on a personal level, because nobody knows you personally, it most definitely resonated with me. Now this is just my opinion ,but is this video not just actually about the challenges of living day to day as someone who is autistic.? I thought that 'Autistic Burnout' is when you become tired and weary of masking, ie forcing yourself to fit in with others and therefor hiding your usual traits.
Rigjt man. Great video😊😊
Does anyone get anxiety just watching people interact with each other? Because I think I analyze myself if I were in that same social interaction and think of how I would interact. Perhaps that's also a way of "learning/copying" what others do? And that contributes to the burn out fuel tank
Autism burnout is what I'm in
Sorry I haven't commented in a while. Life became unmanageable, as it does.
Too many ppl in my life – helpers, advisors, counsellors. They're all nice ppl but I can't hack it, having ANY ppl in my life. They made it worse.
Commenting on YouTube videos is the limit of my social contact. 🤷
Autism and health problems might be an idea 🤷
We've all got digestive problems, food issues, even trouble swallowing like me.
Why? What is the connection?
Who looks after your pets when you're not there? Do you find it's yet another thing to think about before you even start working away? And does being away from them cause any anxiety?
I haven't been officially diagnosed yet but I can relate to you sooo much
I'm having a similar issue at my work. I'm in social services and the case loads are bigger than they've ever been. Being in such a social, constantly changing, high emotion job is a struggle especially with how my ASD presents but I could mange it if it were not for the agency overworking us. Me not working to my standards has real consequences for these kids and their families so I do not feel comfortable compromising on some things but I dont see how this is sustainable for me (and really the structure as a whole). Im also trying to communicate with those at work that could help adjust/lighten loads when possible. Im also trying to give myself true rest time and trying to let work go and do what I like outside of it. But really I may need to simply leave this job. Trying to figure things out and not max out my vacation time. I need it to function but if I take what I really need I'll be even more swamped with work.