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A lot of alone time makes it harder to want to engage with people, even when it could be a positive experience. Because people do take energy, and the anxious brain doesn't have much energy for things it's already associating with previous bad experiences. 1/2 #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Anxiety

Mental health isn't black and white. When we think about mental health as black and white—either you're fine or you're crazy—we stigmatize getting help and make it harder for people to access. 1/4 #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #ND

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Watching shows or videos takes so much less energy than getting up and physically doing things. 1/2 #ActuallyAutistic #EnergyManagement #AuDHD #Neurospicy #Neurodivergent

You won't be able to predict exactly what someone will say when you disclose your autism. And that's okay. It's not a personal failing. 1/3 #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodiversity #AuDHD #unmasking

A common thing when you start exploring #sensory stuff is that you find all this stuff that you’ve been shutting out, you’ve been working to dissociate from, to ignore, to numb, or to cancel out in various ways. And it just feels like everything is just more annoying rather than helping. 1/4

Reducing anxiety is not going to make you careless or unmotivated or reckless. Because anxiety isn't the only thing keeping you from doing or saying inappropriate things. 1/2 #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Anxiety

My #anxiety about going into spaces that were bright and noisy and crowded wasn't just anxiety. They really were bright and noisy and crowded. And that hurt. (I didn't always know about sensory sensitivities. I just knew I didn't like it, or that I got migraines.) 1/2

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Phrases like "overreacting," "blowing things out of proportion," or "it's all in your head" are oversimplified labels that people who don't understand what it's like use to let themselves off the hook for taking the time and energy to understand. #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurospicy

It’s okay if a lot of your life at the moment is in a working theory standpoint. That’s a part of the process that we all go through after we figure out in our 20s, 40s, 60s, or more, that, “Oh, by the way, I’m #autistic. And so all of these things happened in ways that I didn’t understand.” 1/4

There's a kind of pride that's not moralistic or performative. It's closer to: I like who I am. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's okay to like myself. It's even good to like oneself. And in fact, I do like how my brain works. Most of the time. #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance

Were you ever taught how to deal with bad events in healthy ways? Was it modeled for you by anyone in your life? If not: it's not too late. These are skills. And skills can be learned. #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent

When you didn't see the burnout coming www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0fm... #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #AutisticTwitter #Neurospicy #ND

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#AutisticBurnout is basically what happens when you've done too much, for too long, with too little support. Your body, mind, and spirit are trying to protect you by shutting down so you physically can't keep over-exerting on a harmful path. 1/4

A friendship that only lasts for a few years isn’t necessarily a “failed friendship”. It could’ve been a friendship that was good for a few years and then you drifted in different directions. That doesn’t invalidate those several years of friendship, it just means that it didn’t last forever. 1/3

I need quiet days www.youtube.com/watch?v=weyO... #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #AutisticTwitter #Neurospicy #ND

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While you're in burnout, you may not be doing as much as you used to. But if you're also calling yourself lazy, a failure, or fretting about your future: the stress of that cancels out much of the restorative benefit of the rest. 1/2 #AutisticBurnout #BurnoutRecovery #Burnout #ActuallyAutistic

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This Saturday I'm running a free workshop called Explaining Autistic Burnout — for the family members, clinicians, and employers who want to understand what autistic burnout actually is and how to help. buff.ly/LzVFMiL #AutisticBurnout #BurnoutRecovery #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

As I was going through very hard times, I wasn't thinking about improving my #anxiety as "trying to deal with it." I was thinking about it as just trying to get through one day at a time. Trying to figure out something, anything, that would feel a tiny bit less awful. 1/2

Autistic burnout reality check www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mlj... #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #AutisticTwitter #Neurospicy #ND

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