Feeling like I am always burnt out

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As the title says, ever since September of last year I feel like I am completely burnt out 24/7. I am either busy with school, work, or some other big thing I have to work on. It has degraded to the point where I really don't care about the grades I get on my assignments (though they have been in the B-A range) and even if I am doing something relaxing, I still feel stressed out about all that has to be done still and I feel no better or relaxed.

I feel like I have been on a constant train of stress for months now with no end in sight. I try to get work done on the weekends, but I am so tired and lacking motivation/desire that I don't ever get much done and it all piles up during the week, when the point of me doing work on the weekends is to avoid that. I feel that I am in a never ending cycle and I don't know what to do. I'm hating myself right now in more ways than one.

Sorry if this sounds like a rant or something. I am just so frustrated with myself right now. Between all of this garbage, having little to no self-confidence in my dating abilities, feeling physically tense all the time, and 95% of my interaction with other people is during class time leaving me alone most of the time, I don't know how much longer I can deal with this and pretend to others that things are okay.

Autistic burnout can happen, I've seen or heard it happen to most autistic adults at some point in there life, where they are trying to overperform constantly for the sake of 'keeping up' at the non-autistic pace or way of doing things.

It might help to take a step back, and find out what are the things that are the most stressful, or adding to your stress unnecessarily, and begin making adjustments.

I know what some of those things are, unfortunately I really don't have the option to cut them out, I need to go through with them. Thankfully a couple of large things have been out of the way and over with.