Replying to @ConcernedCitizen My tried and tested way out of Autistic Burnout. I don’t love it here one bit, BUT I do love what it’s taught me about my mind, my body and my needs 🙂‍↕️ If you’re in autistic burnout and don’t know how to get out, don’t force it. Be kind to yourself and give yourself time. Things will start to ease eventually 🤍 #actuallyautustic #tiktokpartner #adhdthings #autisticcreator #audhdtok

So traditional advice will tell you that when you hit autistic burnout, you need to just rest, but I don't actually think that's entirely true, especially when like a large percentage of us, we also have ADHD in my experience, the burnout doesn't stop the mental hyper activity and then whenever I would actually try to rest my brains and going a mile a minute and thinking about all the things that I should be doing or could be doing instead of actually resting and then I just end up even more mentally exhausted and it just it's a never ending cycle. What's actually helped me was rediscovering what filled my cup and what do I mean by that? I mean focusing on you and what makes you happy unfiltered unmasked without the interruption of anyone else or whatever they want from you basically get really, really selfish and don't give a heck about what anyone else has to say about it. If you don't want to go say no, you want to eat by spaghetti and garlic every single day for seven days for every single meal, do it. You don't want to answer your phone, you don't want to talk to anyone, you don't want to reply to messages, you just want to keep your mouth closed and say absolutely no words, do it. In fact, throw the whole phone away. Don't actually do that. But you get what I'm saying. Essentially what the burnout is telling you is that you've been doing too much, you've not been listening to your body, you haven't been honoring your own needs and whether that's because you want to achieve a goal or because of some societal expectation that you have to uphold. Or because people expect a lot of things from you, it doesn't really matter. You cannot pull from an empty cup. So I did things like, binge my favorite TV show specifically young children started creating content that absolutely no one gave a toss about and made me happy. I stew and noodles every single day. I grew up with my ex and I started going to reform a Pilates. Nothing too crazy, you know, just a few things, few changes here and there. You can't rush the process. You kind of have to go through the motions of it and give your body all the time that it needs to get back to ground zero. It's been almost a year for me and although I feel so much better, I'm still not entirely out of the woodworks yet. But I hope this helps.