Dr. Megan Anna Neff
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard Jun 2025
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And so that's another area where depression treatment would need to be adjusted.
Yeah, it's a painful irony that you need some energy and some resources to even be thinking about, for example, okay, what is my sensory profile and how am I gonna maybe bake in some sensory accommodations into my life?
That takes cognitive energy, that takes physical energy to do some of that work or even learning to learn about our nervous system and to incorporate some of those supports.
Sleep is a really hard one in that a lot of the things that support sleep
are really hard to do and requires a bit of like discipline and frankly willpower, which is not my favorite word, but it does.
And I say that as someone who like knows all of the sleep things and sometimes I follow them and sometimes I don't.
So the supports that help us require cognitive thinking and energy.
so that is a pretty brutal aspect of the burnout paradox.
Yeah, so as far as I know, I'm seeing more and more people talk about autistic burnout in children, which is great.
I think it's such an important lens.
But I don't know of research that specifically looked at children.
However, to me, just intuitively, it makes so much sense that a child could experience burnout, especially if we think about the transition to preschool or to school.
Transitions and change is a big thing for autistic people's nervous systems to take in.
And so it makes sense, and especially if there's limited accommodations in place or maybe the sensory needs aren't known yet, it just makes sense to me that children would also experience burnout.
I will say the thinking is that puberty can be a trigger for burnout, which makes sense, again, if we're thinking about big changes and hormonal changes.
There's some kind of developmental touch points where kids can be more vulnerable to it, but it just makes sense to me that it could hit at any point in the lifespan.
Yeah, so some of the things that
a parent might see would be that increase in meltdowns or shutdowns.
And again, especially if it's something like maybe it's a shower, like a shower has a lot of sensory transitions to it.
Maybe the child was for the most part able to handle that, but now showers are leading to meltdowns.
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