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shortfatbalduglyman
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13 Oct 2019, 4:38 pm

Every day is like that

Some more than others



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13 Oct 2019, 4:48 pm

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Every day is like that

Some more than others


Sorry to hear. Hope you can recharge batteries.


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13 Oct 2019, 5:05 pm

I have more days like that than not, due to very poor sleep. I also get like that when I'm recovering from a shutdown.


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13 Oct 2019, 5:08 pm

dragonsanddemons wrote:
I have more days like that than not, due to very poor sleep. I also get like that when I'm recovering from a shutdown.


Total shutdown? Partial shutdown? Or both?


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13 Oct 2019, 5:20 pm

This is rare, usually we have enough "powerfull". It may be the lack of sleep.



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13 Oct 2019, 6:43 pm

^^^you sound like you have a fragile energy just like i do, which means one must learn to read the subtle signals of energy depletion and pace oneself to the speed that one's system can recharge.



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13 Oct 2019, 6:58 pm

Very much. It's what burnout looks like for me. It's the last day of school holidays here so I am not doing very well. Kids go back to school tomorrow. It will likely take 3-4 weeks for me to recover (that's how long it normally takes me after school holidays)


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14 Oct 2019, 4:20 am

Yes, I get that.
I have to listen to my body and take things easy, or I'll be heading for burn-out.
But it's really hard because I have kids to take care of, so I get a lot of guilt over it, too. Ashamed that I don't have much energy to engage with them.
I try not to beat myself up about acting lazy and self-absorbed. Learning to accept that this is part of the autism, and it is what it is, I just have to accept it.



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14 Oct 2019, 4:54 am

Yes. I have days of low energy and it is frustrating. But I have to just rest and sleep until I am fully restored.


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14 Oct 2019, 5:01 am

it is like my frontal lobes really just want to sleep rather than work.



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17 Oct 2019, 5:32 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
I have more days like that than not, due to very poor sleep. I also get like that when I'm recovering from a shutdown.


Total shutdown? Partial shutdown? Or both?


Probably what would qualify as a total shutdown. Not sure if I really get partials.


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17 Oct 2019, 5:52 pm

For me I call a full shutdown where I lose my eyesight and usually my hearing... Well. My hearing is often distorted in a partial shutdown anyway. Difficult to tell as when I get a shutdown, I am not even thinking about if my hearing is working or not. My brain just shuts down. It is not a sudden thing though. I get one thing shutting down after the next...But when the sight starts to go and the loud tinitus begins, I know I am fully shutting down.


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17 Oct 2019, 8:13 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:
For me I call a full shutdown where I lose my eyesight and usually my hearing... Well. My hearing is often distorted in a partial shutdown anyway. Difficult to tell as when I get a shutdown, I am not even thinking about if my hearing is working or not. My brain just shuts down. It is not a sudden thing though. I get one thing shutting down after the next...But when the sight starts to go and the loud tinitus begins, I know I am fully shutting down.


I partially lose my hearing and get a sort of tunnel vision during what I call a shutdown, and my brain stops all but the most basic things. It all starts at the same time for me, starting off mildly and getting worse as I get deeper into the shutdown. That's why I'm not really sure that I get partial shutdowns, because I don't ever get it where just one sense shuts down or something. I can sometimes hold it off if I catch it quickly enough and then focus enough, but once I lose that focus I shut down.


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17 Oct 2019, 8:24 pm

dragonsanddemons wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
For me I call a full shutdown where I lose my eyesight and usually my hearing... Well. My hearing is often distorted in a partial shutdown anyway. Difficult to tell as when I get a shutdown, I am not even thinking about if my hearing is working or not. My brain just shuts down. It is not a sudden thing though. I get one thing shutting down after the next...But when the sight starts to go and the loud tinitus begins, I know I am fully shutting down.


I partially lose my hearing and get a sort of tunnel vision during what I call a shutdown, and my brain stops all but the most basic things. It all starts at the same time for me, starting off mildly and getting worse as I get deeper into the shutdown. That's why I'm not really sure that I get partial shutdowns, because I don't ever get it where just one sense shuts down or something. I can sometimes hold it off if I catch it quickly enough and then focus enough, but once I lose that focus I shut down.


I have had tunnel vision where I had to walk through the middle of town on a crowded day and all the people turned into a tunnel wall as I was quickly walking myself through. I don't know how I disn't bump into anyone as all I could see was a wall formed as if I was walking through a tube and the people became flat and different colours on the wall... Their clothes became these colours as if they had all been painted on...


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17 Oct 2019, 9:52 pm

I'm lacking energy like this all the time. Even if I have a full night's sleep, I only last about 4-6 hours before I'm 'out of it' and sleepy again. The only cause I can think of is the cocktail of medicines I'm on, but unfortunately as most are epilepsy seizure meds, there's nothing I can do about those.

When I'm really tired I get these attacks where I suddenly feel extremely tired, my mind goes blank and it takes me a moment to remember where I am. (We're pretty sure these are different from the seizures I was getting, as they were absence seizures, in which I would just be still and non-responsive for a minute or two, and then would come out of it and didn't even realise what had just happened.)


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17 Oct 2019, 10:57 pm

My energy level depends on a few things: sunlight, my general mood and how much mental stimulation or physical exercise I receive. Often if I don't cover at least two of those categories, I'll get run down, agitated and left with little energy to get things done. And, if I let it go for too long, I find I can become irritable, emotionally sensitive, insomniac or even depressed. Granted, some days I'm just left with no energy whatsoever.