Dr. Megan Anna Neff
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard Jun 2025
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Even little 30 second, 60 second nervous system breaks to take a cleansing breath, to help activate our parasympathetic nervous system, to tell our body like you're not actually in danger right now.
Those add up over time.
The narratives we tell ourselves, if we're telling ourselves, I'm a crap parent right now because my kid wants this and I don't have energy for it.
That narrative is actually activating that sympathetic nervous system.
And not because it's like all in our minds, but because the narratives we tell ourselves either help signal to our body that we're safe or that we're in danger.
And that impacts nervous system, which impacts burnout.
So there's a lot of little adjustments happening.
from thinking through how to build in more nervous system supports into our day, to how we talk about ourselves, about our parenting, about ourselves in general, that add up over time.
There can be a temptation to want to be like, well, is it this or is it that?
Like, is it autistic burnout or is it a health issue?
Autistic burnout is an umbrella term to name these experiences, but there's a lot that feeds into that, a lot of unique drivers.
And
Often there can be some health conditions in the mix.
There's actually a really interesting article that came out recently around autistic children, and it might have been autistic and ADHD, and health conditions and chronic fatigue.
That's part of a complex journey for me is I know like there's long COVID in the mix.
There's what I suspect is chronic fatigue syndrome.
So one thing I do like to encourage folks is don't just assume it's autistic burnout and be like, well, this is autistic burnout done.
There might be health things in the mix.
We know autistic people are more vulnerable to all kinds of health conditions.
A lot of them, unfortunately, are also vulnerable.
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