What Is Autistic Burnout, and How Do You Recover from It?

Having all of your internal resources exhausted beyond measure

Ines May
Invisible Illness
Published in
4 min readApr 4, 2022
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

I used to think I would do so much when I became an adult, and achieve so many things. But I am so tired. No, tired doesn’t cover it. I am exhausted. And not the kind of “I work hard and I am tired”, I am exhausted as in “I am exhausted even if I stay in bed all…

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Ines May
Invisible Illness

Veterinarian, diagnosed with autism at 27, writing to figure life. E-mail me at ineslmedium@gmail.com Become a member: https://inesl.medium.com/membership