Autistic burnout

Do you feel exhausted to do anything after the office hours are over but you still pick up that vacuum cleaner or run that last piece of code until you are completely numb?

Does the pressure to participate in social occasions really get to you? Organising for Christmas seems to take a long time, months of awkwardness and anxiety. You might feel like the celebration is "happening to you" with no choice but to tough it out, which can end in spectacular meltdowns. Here are my tips: be aware of what drains your resources, plan in advance and negotiate compromises, communicate why you wish to participate on your terms, create a space to escape to.

Once you're in it, you just know. It takes over. There is the anger and the tiredness. A heavy tiredness.