Dr. Megan Anna Neff
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard Jun 2025
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And it's really hard to access both present self hope, but also past and future hope.
And that would be another indication that this is more than just autistic burnout, that we're also looking at depression.
And then there's one other distinguishing marker.
I always like to clarify, this is a working theory of mine.
I haven't seen this in the literature, but this is a working theory of mine.
And the response from the community so far has been like, yeah, that resonates with my experience.
So autistic burnout can be one of the pathways to depression and suicidality.
we know that autistic people are very high risk for this.
which is one of the reasons why I think talking about autistic burnout is so important.
And one thing that I think can be common in autistic burnout but might not be depression is what's called non-suicidal morbid ideation.
So this is the kind of thinking where if I just didn't wake up tomorrow, that'd be a relief.
I'd be okay.
It's often a desire for things just to stop, to escape what is really, really hard.
Now, when we're talking about suicidal ideation, that tends to be a more active desire to unalive oneself.
And there's also that sense of hopelessness and often a sense of I'm a burden to people around me.
And that's a different experience than non-suicidal morbid ideation.
And if that is present, then absolutely, I think we're talking about depression at that point.
If it's the other, I think the conversation becomes like, wow, there's a lot that you are wanting to escape right now.
And that makes sense.
And how do we relieve some of what is hard?
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