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28 Feb 2012, 4:50 pm

I'm trying to find a good description for autistic burnout to share with people (both those who are dealing with it in themselves, and those who are watching it in me). I'm not finding any good ones.

Does anyone here have a good reference on burnout?



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28 Feb 2012, 5:25 pm

None of the existing threads on WP give a good description? I know there are several.


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28 Feb 2012, 5:57 pm

Burnout 3: Takedown is a very good game. :lol:


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28 Feb 2012, 6:10 pm

Rhiannon0828 wrote:
None of the existing threads on WP give a good description? I know there are several.


I've found http://www.autistics.org/library/more-autistic.html quite useful for myself (that being the most common link in those threads that I've read) but I'm also looking for more references. That one assumes you know what traits are associated with autism, and that you're viewing it as being more autistic, rather than others noticing that you're far more frequently having self-injuring meltdowns, or periods of time that you're going nonverbal in response to things that are tiny. My boyfriend's acting like that now (he's not diagnosed, but almost certainly on the spectrum), and I'm trying to figure out how we're dealing with this, but he's not even agreeing to the description 'burnt out', so I think he needs a better understanding of burnout first.



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28 Feb 2012, 7:13 pm

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt122215.html

This thread was useful to me back when I didn't really understand burnout.