Dr. Megan Anna Neff

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And I just think modern society...

doesn't set up our nervous system well to not be in burnout.

So I think that's a helpful anchoring concept.

Now, autistic burnout and how it's perhaps distinct from other forms of burnout.

There's three themes that they found in their study that emerged.

So one is that pervasive exhaustion and that can be physical.

It can be mental.

I describe it as the wall of fatigue.

Like it feels like I'm hitting a physical brick wall and my body is just like, no, you can't be vertical.

You have to be horizontal.

Like it's just this really intense fatigue for me.

But it can also be mental.

So cognitive fatigue, emotional fatigue.

So we're going to have less emotional bandwidth than we might normally have.

That's a core element is that just pervasive fatigue.

And it's not the kind of fatigue that like, okay, I get a good night's sleep and I bounce back.

The second aspect is increased sensory sensitivities.

So especially if the autistic person is more hypersensitive to begin with.

then seeing an increase in that.

So perhaps more sensory meltdowns or shutdowns or sensory transitions will become more difficult.

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