#burnout adult

[laestoica]

#adhd struggles #executive dysfunction #adhd life #adult adhd #adhd burnout #adhd paralysis #adhd #reflections #sad but true #twitter

[crazycatsiren]

Autistic meltdowns aren't synonymous with temper tantrums, by the way.

#actually autistic #autism #asd #neurodivergence #autism awareness #autistic adult #autistic burnout #autistic meltdowns #neurodivergent

[finnslay]

You're not autistic, you're just a little silly!

And you cry when people change things but that's unrelated-- :D

#autistic spectrum #autism spectrum #autism awareness #autistic #autism #actually audhd #actually autism #actually autistic #autism acceptance #audhd #autism memes #autism community #autism problems #autism spectrum disorder #autism things #autistic adult #autistic culture #autistic burnout

[grlfreak]

in another life, i find out i am autistic at 12 instead of at 29. i am still bullied, but my parents put me in another school. i get the support i need. i find friends who love me for who i am. my mom and dad don’t yell. instead, they comfort me during my meltdowns. they support me. i grow up knowing who i am, what i am, and i learn how my body works instead of wondering why i can’t speak the language of everyone else around me despite having english as my native language.

#personal #journal #autism #autistic #actually autistic #being autistic #autistic pride #actually autism #autistic burnout #autistic adult #autistic culture #autistic feels #autistic problems #autistic things #autistic experiences #autistic community #autistic spectrum #late diagnosed autistic #autistic women #autistic life #hope #hopecore

[spacefaringamoeba]

I hate that I'm considered "high functioning". I barely qualify for any "level" of disability in my country and I will never get a disability income. Yes. I'm able to go to work. But I will not be able to hold it for more than a few months before getting burned out and having daily meltdowns. No, having 10 minutes extra work break won't help me. Neither will wearing headphones or carrying fidgets. I'm literally not able to work 40h a week without severe negative consequences... How do i fucking exist in this society!

#Post brought to you by me quitting another job #autistic #autistic adult #meltdown #autism #actually autistic #disabilties #disabled #high functioning autism #low support needs #anxeity #cptsd problems #ptsd #complex ptsd #burnout #send help #mental health

[ts-witchy-archive]

It's okay to not know how to take care of yourself

Learning to take care of yourself is a skill, one that we often aren't taught as children. For example, I didn't know that procrastination didn't count as an effective rest until like 2 months ago. I also knew very little about nutrition until like a weeks ago (and I took hospitality in high school).

Self care is fucking hard and we need to give ourselves more credit for just /trying/. We're all learning at our own pace and there is no guide book on what self care you specifically need. You'll learn, we all do eventually. Unfortunately, it just takes time.

#neurodiverse #neurodivergent #neurospicy #adhd #actually adhd #adhd adult #neurodiverse stuff #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #mental health #burnout #coping #therapy #mental illness #mental health support #audhd #autism

[exclusivelyhomosexual]

Depression is so fun bc you’ll have like 20% motivation and energy to do something after work, but then ofc you don’t do anything bc you’re 80% depressed, but then you feel guilty bc theoretically you could have done something with the 20% energy, and bc of what we learn in society, you therefore should have done something. So then you lay there feeling the 80% depressed that you already were but the 20% motivation and energy turns into guilt for not doing anything. And then if you math, that’s 100% depressed.

#tw depressing thoughts #tw depression #tw internalized ableism #tw ableist language #neurodivergent #major depressive disorder #neurodiverse stuff #adult autism #adhd #adult adhd #lgbtq #trans #burnout

[c4nnib4lc0rpse]

“autism is a superpower!”

yeah not being able to communicate verbally, internalising my feelings, shutting down, self harm, flapping my arms around crying, isolating, chronic loneliness, pulling my hair out and not being able to eat make me batman 💪😎

#blocking weird/rude responses & tags #don’t come to MY blog & act like dat lol #bye #autism #mental health #actually autistic #neurodivergencies #neurodiverse stuff #neurodiversity #that damn spectrum #tism moment #the tism #tism posting #she in awe of my tism #tism tag #tism things #autistic things #autistic adult #autistic burnout

[turns-out-its-adhd]

Original comic by @niall.breen.comics - this edit found on Frog Hoppy

#adhd memes #neurodivergence #adult adhd #adhd #adhd things #neurodiverse stuff #adhd mood #burnout #mental health #neurodiversesquad #adhd brain

[neurodivergenttales]

Society: people are so demanding these days, do you know how inconvenient it is to put accomodations in place for you?

Also society: neurodivergent people must spend their entire lives living up to neurotypical standards, mask all of their traits and exist in a world that forces them into perpetual burnout cycles...but don't call us demanding

#mental health #neurodivergent #neurodiverse stuff #actually autistic #burnout #masking #autistic life #asd #actually autism #autistic adult #late diagnosed autistic

[gentlemanbutch]

Not to ask a silly question but how are you supposed to not be burnt out as an autistic adult? A lot of us work, we live in a capitalistic hellscape, there’s an ongoing pandemic, every kind of -phobia and -ism is on the rise with literal laws being passed to oppress and kill people in marginalized groups, many of us deal with additional disabilities on top of autism…like how am I not supposed to be burnt out?

I feel like everyone treats autistic burn out as this thing to solve/get over and I just don’t see how that’s realistic for so many of us. I don’t mean that in a cynical/purposely negative way, I just…genuinely don’t see it and if I’m missing something, I want someone to explain it to me because I WANT to not be burnt out.

#seriously advice is great #but like advice from a place of understanding that this is the reality we live in ya know? #autism #actually autistic #autistic #autistic adult #neurodivergent #autistic burnout

[jewelleria]

Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help by Richard Pink and Roxanne Emery

#quotes #literature #adhd #actually adhd #adhd problems #adult adhd #living with adhd #mental health #book quotes #gifted kid burnout #web weaving

[50044w44s]

Hey, i see that you're drowning. Here's some arm floaties, hope they help.

Oh, I see they are really helping huh?

"Why is that person using arm floaties? they're not drowning..."

I see that you're not drowning, you're doing good so I'm gonna take the arm floaties away from you. Wait, why are you drowning again? You were fine one second ago, you must be faking it.

"Can I please have some arm floaties?"

"But you haven't entered the pool yet."

"Yeah but I can't swim, I know that I can't swim, so some arm floaties would really help me not to drown."

"You're asking for arm floaties without even trying to swim, you're just lazy and you want more help than the others have, the others are doing just fine..."

"I don't need to get into the watter to know that I can't swim. You're telling me I can't have arm floaties unless I'm actively drowning? You won't give them to me even though I warned you I will drown?"

This post was never about arm floaties.

#disability #accomodation #autisim #neurodivergent #adhd #dissabled #invisible disability #disabilties #autistic things #this needs to stop #actually autistic #autistic adult #autistic experiences #adhd experience #adhd problems #adhd brain #burnout #meltdown #neurodiversity #neurodiverse stuff #mental health awareness #mental health #mental illness #support #support needs #high support needs #low support needs

[thevirgodoll]

sometimes, we have to have a day where we allow ourselves to do absolutely nothing because we are emotionally stuck. nothing seems right, and everything seems dreadfully mundane. you feel like you’re the only person on the planet (while also feeling like the world is spinning without you).

sometimes, distracting ourselves 24/7 with productivity stops us from realizing what we need. i hate that we have become a society where everything we do has to be commodified.

why can’t we be okay just doing “nothing” tasks? you don’t always have to be pursuing something. what happened to taking a few mins out to do that thing that feels like “nothing” but makes you happy? like what’s wrong with playing sims or taking a nap? what’s wrong with accepting that some days just don’t work and there’s nothing wrong with accepting that???

like…burnout is so real. ppl tell us to stay inspired and ~keep going~ but you have to have the energy and the presence to do so. like in all of us the spark is there, but we don’t have the capacity to nurse it.

better to let that fire burn organically (and light it again when you have time and energy…) as often as you can than to rush every second and not even know you’re at the end of the wick.

#on the other end of it there is unhealthy escapism but that’s not what this post is abt #i just genuinely hate how older adults specifically also have this weird idea of what nothin looks like #like I always say: the things that are nurtured and encouraged as kids are shitted on as adults #this may not even make sense but that’s why i wrote it for me idk #at the end of the day life is gonna be whatever I make it and I choose to let my fire burn on MY TIME #even if that time is objectively ‘wasted’. at least my days are longer #words #recovery #burnout #imposter syndrome #depression #chronic illness #actually adhd

[neurospicy]

I honestly resent the “adhd and autism are superpowers and only struggle because of capitalism” narrative, and I find it deeply flawed and lacking in nuance to the point of being harmful.

Adhd and autism both exist on a spectrum. They are each their own cluster of traits/symptoms, and those exist in varying degrees based on the individual. Are there aspects to adhd and autism that are advantageous? Absolutely, but we can’t pretend that they exist in an advantageous way in all of us. Some people do have the “right” traits, dialed up to the “right” intensity, and that might allow them to take advantage of their neurodivergence in a way that helps them succeed.

That isn’t to say that they don’t also have struggles due to living in a neurotypical world as an adhd’er or autistic, but they might be able to overcome it. Another person may have all the adhd or autistic traits dialed up to 100, to the point that it’s too debilitating for them to take advantage of any positives that might exist. There are high support needs autistics, for one example, who regardless of whether they had to work to afford to live or not, would still need help with living. Help cooking, cleaning, bathing.

I have “severe” adhd and while I don’t have an official autism diagnosis, I know I am autistic. I never related to the energetic, social, novelty-seeking picture that is painted of people who have adhd. My autistic traits cancel out the “positives” of having adhd, while my adhd traits cancel out the “positives” of being autistic. I’m too burnt out and exhausted all of the time to put forth much mental energy. I freak out when things aren’t predictable. I can’t function if the room is too cold. I can’t eat if my food is too cold, too squishy, too chewy, doesn’t have the right sauce available, doesn’t have the drink I like with that particular food, etc. My interests are very narrow so I don’t have the typical adhd love of variety. Yet I also can’t stay organized or follow a routine. I can’t recall information properly when I need to. I’m not patient. I forget things that just happened 30 seconds ago. I can’t plan to save my life.

This also ignores that some people have no comorbidities or they only have one or two. Some have several to contend with. Some of us have learning disabilities. We aren’t all former gifted kids that just can’t follow traditional structures or sit still in class or at the office. Some of us are legitimately debilitated in all aspects of life. Some of us aren’t just struggling with going to a 9-5…some of us can’t even keep a 9-5 because of our symptoms.

Does capitalism make things significantly harder? Absolutely. But if capitalism were to vanish tomorrow, I still wouldn’t have the executive functioning to keep my space clean, to make myself food, or to stay consistent on my own chosen projects. I would still struggle with arfid. I would still have a delayed circadian rhythm. I would still struggle to make appointments and make phone calls for myself. And I would still struggle to connect with others or make friends with people who might help me with these things.

#actually autistic #actually adhd #mental health #autistic #autism #neurodiverse #adhd #adhd in women #undiagnosed autism #adhd in adults #adult adhd #actuallyadhd #actuallyautistic #executive dysfunction #severe adhd #ableism #actually neurodivergent #autistic burnout #autistic adult

[theunderscorenoodle]

The way that if you're smart enough as a kid, you can accidentally convince every medical and educational professional that you'll never need support for anything ever, even when you grow up and are mentally collapsing!

:D

#mental health #mental illness #actually autistic #autism #autistic things #autistic adult #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #gifted kid burnout