The autistic burnout - energyblocking from others?

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Burnout is HARD. I've written about it quite a bit on my blog because burnout is what eventually lead me to being diagnosed. I try to stay positive and get creative when I have burnout. I limit my commitments to other people and allow myself to flake at the last minute if I need to.

Good luck - They ARE temporary.


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Quote Johnnyh: (Tony Attwood? He looks like the Jamie Oliver of autism specialists to me.)

Why doesn't this surprise me? You read your curebie bible, we will read Tony Attwood with the respect his experience deserves, because we didn't come to WP on a mission to poison the well here as you have done.

I didn't realise Jamie Oliver was a negative thing - what am I missing here?

The gross things that occur in the name of cure (eg the death of that child subjected to the MMR quack cure, the throat burns caused to others by adults putting bleach in their throats) still go on. The curebies who chant the "cure disease cure disease cure disease" mantra risk encouraging more manslaughter and injury of defenceless children. Whether the encouragement is direct or indirect, its influence is bound to be toxic on impressionable and ignorant parents.

Causing an AS person's death is the ultimate form of blocking their energy.

Yes I can relate to this...and I do feel better when I spend time alone, but being alone all the time gets to be too much. I can tolerate short/infrequent bursts of interaction with people - but typically the more time I spend around someone continuously, whether talking to them or just being in their physical presence, the more drained I feel.

I think burnout plays a big part in how I feel, however I also experience ascension symptoms and for me the burnout is a part of that process. https://deniselefay.wordpress.com/2009/ ... -symptoms/

I know what you mean about feeling like they consume your soul - I get that feeling too. I also feel like people project or dump their own energy on to me in a way that is intrusive. I am an empath and it is very easy for me to take on other people's energy - and it can be exhausting - so it has made me become VERY selective about who I want to be around and for how long.

I used to be much more solicitous of other people - but I noticed most wouldn't really reciprocate, and I would just feel taken for granted, or if I stopped seeking them out then I wouldn't hear a peep out of them anymore. It is too much work and it becomes exhausting when other people don't do their fair share - not just the actual gestures of connection like calling or writing, but the inner emotional or spiritual work that makes someone capable of genuinely connecting, being present and giving of themselves.

It's not that I want to be a total hermit - but I am not willing to take crap from people or kiss their butts just for the sake of having companionship. I feel like if other people don't respect my time, my energy, my space, my feelings, and so on, then I have better things to do - and if that means doing those things alone then so be it.

Thankyou and yes! I worked with the elderly and the disabled and children and they did NOT drain me at all- However their relatives and different caretakers DID drain very much energy. And to some extent coworkers, but generally my coworkers provided enrgy bless them-

I think ASD people can have severe problems with energyexchange. I mean we give and take but to the extremes and we are often disrespected when we say no it's to much..that is my biggest issue as an ASD , that and eyecontact.

The autistic burnout is explainable from a non-philosophical or non-social basis. There is a neurological basis.
The extra effort exerted to compensate for executive dysfunctions can lead to burnout, so does the fact the prefrontal cortex in autism has hyper plasticity and an overabundance of longer poorer quality synapses meaning information has trouble getting from one place to another and cortical imbalance occurs. This also explains meltdowns which are really equivalent to involuntary symptoms such as tics, psychosis, hallucinations, and seizures. Meltdowns are not to be philosophized over or seen in a social only view in my humble opinion, they are very real physical symptoms that need to be treated.

Edit: I also wrongly thought it was the amygdala, but the differences of the amygdala are side effects of toxins from strong anti-seizure meds or antipsychotics or seizures themselves. The problem is the connectivity which affect the rest of the brain. Autism has a neuropathology, it is not an entirely different brain like a mac to PC, most differences stem from a few key strong changes. It is a PC with some code changed, changing the entire presentation of the final product.