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[batshua]

My Neurodivergent Burnout Relief Appeal Post

Hey, neurodivergent tumblr! I've been reading a lot about autistic & ADHD burnout, because I'm either actively burning out right now, or I have reached the full-on burnout stage.

I'm a late-diagnosed autistic and even later-diagnosed ADHDer. I'm currently a full-time MBA student with insufficient accommodations this semester due to ongoing drama with the school's disability services. This will hopefully be remedied next semester when I get yet another neuropsychological evaluation in December. Hopefully.

I have chronic, treatment-resistant depression, so it's been extra hard to get my meds right. My Vyvanse hasn't ever helped me very much with motivation, but it seems to improve my focus a little. Then, of course, I caught COVID right at the beginning of the semester, and while I'm "recovered", I'm … exhausted on the weekends and really struggling.

And I was probably actively burning out before all of this.

There's not a lot of firm research on the subject, but one strong recommendation is to … not mask? Which … I kinda don't … know how to do? I think?

So I'm trying to give myself designated Autism Time; that is, a time when I specifically Do Autistic Stuff or Do Stuff Autistically so that I can have a break from … The Everything.

Specific advice of what works for you or that you've heard from others is welcome. General advice like "do something relaxing" will … not be helpful because I do NOT know what that means.

If you have ND followers, please, please, PLEASE reblog this. There's very little useful actionable advice about how to handle this kind of thing short of "become institutionalized for a few years to decades while you recover" and I would rather … not … do that, if it can be avoided. Please, help me survive this by giving me any tools you have to manage it.

Thank you all so very much for reading.

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Wow, this got pretty wide reach even with just a basic $10 blaze!

Thank you to everyone who shared this. I'm not very active on Tumblr. Before the blaze, I only had 11 followers. I wouldn't have been able to reach so many people without you. I got 4,885 impressions during the blaze, and 113 of them were just from people reblogging.

Thank you to everyone for your advice, even if it's not helpful to me personally, diversity of ideas and experiences is extremely useful because if it worked for you or someone you love, then it's going to work for someone else, even if it's not me.

Please keep sharing your advice and experience; there is an ongoing discussion in the autistic community, and there's no real research right now. I know that there's one study that's currently being done. Unfortunately, the results won't be out for a few years at the very least.

I made different versions of this post for multiple social media platforms, and I'm compiling all the responses I've gotten into a massive document, complete with an attempt at meta-analysis so that I can offer those suggestions to the wider autistic community.

I'm strongly considering re-blazing a reblog version of this in 3-6 months, probably at the $25 tier, with a summary of my meta-analysis, and probably notes on what has been most helpful to me, so please look for that so we can spread what I've learned to the wider autistic community. I want to do what I can to help others heal their burnout or avoid burnout altogether.

TL;DR: Thank you. Keep circulating the tapes so I can get more anecdata and share it with others.

[covid-safer-hotties]

https://x.com/JonKHuff/status/1898077961699704835 You can buy each piece of the SIP mask valve separately and in bulk, and save a fair bit.

[orcbara]

i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights

[lyinginbedmon]

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is and always has been fascist rhetoric everyone.

[thememedaddy]

[batshua]

I mean, I wouldn’t date her either.

[just-the-salt]

Didn't think that I'd have to post this exact comparison again, didn't even think I'd have to post it once, and yet I stand disappointed again.

On the left: a sign in German on a street in Bavaria, reading: "Jews are unwanted here." Photo taken by an American in 1937.

On the right: a message from a hotel in Bavaria, Zum Hirschen, sent to Israelis who tried to book a stay, reading: "Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel." June 2026.

Again, the incident has been "handled": Booking.com took the hotel off its platform and the hotel itself was contacted by the Israeli consulate in Munich. The hotel at first denied sending the message, but later stated that it was indeed one of its employees that sent it. It is yet unclear if the case will lead to formal proceedings.

Let me point out that one small detail. They didn't said Israelis weren't allowed, they didn't say Zionists weren't allowed. They said Jews. Now Bavarians aren't new at the scene of antisemitism, in fact they are very experienced, but nowadays, we don't say Jews when we're being discriminatory, no, we say something else. You're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud! (For those in my comments who don't understand sarcasm, that was it.)

This joins many concerning cases across Europe and the UK (not to mention the US!) that reenact the nostalgic scenes of the 1930s and 1940s. (Again, sarcasm). I haven't yet made a post about the spa in Spain that refused a Jewish woman on entry on account of her Magen David necklace. And here Europe strikes again, in the very place the Nazi party rose to power. All those woke westerners that are so proud to chant about punching Nazis, and where are you now? Aren't you ashamed? Wouldn't even recognize one if it was saluting in your face.

[bsaka7]

excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[hope-for-the-planet]

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials

Desalination is the process of generating freshwater from brackish or saltwater, usually through the process of reverse osmosis. While this can be a very useful tool in water shortages, it also has some pretty huge drawbacks--reverse osmosis requires a lot of energy, requires chemical treatment of the water, and produces concentrated brine as a waste product which can be harmful to aquatic ecosystems.

Researchers have recently discovered a new way to perform desalination using solar energy, which doesn't require chemical inputs and collects waste salt instead of producing brine. Concentrating the waste salt in a solid form instead of brine means that it can later be processed to extract valuable minerals like lithium.

[butterflypeaflowertea]

trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

[h4nds4ndwich]

“It’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing” I’m in love

[catchymemes]

This was posted on a ‘second hand finds’ Facebook page…

…only to be followed by this amazing message.

The roller coaster ride started.

With a happy ending…

…and a sweet poem to finish.

[itsjunetime]

clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

clown nurse standing by solemnly adding each successive ball to the ones she's already juggling

[batshua]

Okay, but head me out … what if the balls also squeak?

[beardedmrbean]

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com

I'm a bit frightened for the time when someone less ethical than the person that did this decides to repeat the experiment but leave out the part where they come in later and announce that it was fake and people wind up diagnosed with the fake condition and all kinds of wacky hi jinks ensues.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[magnetothemagnificent]

I recently came across a post from you stating that it’s “insidious” that Pride events are often scheduled on Saturday which means you as an observant Jews can’t go. Why is your schedule more important that everyone else’s? Why do non Jews, such as myself, need to schedule things according to your schedule?

Are you a religious Christian for whom a Pride parade is considered "work" and therefore something you would not be able to attend were it scheduled on a Sunday? Do you attend Mass on Sunday that takes all day and therefore limits your free time on Sunday? No? So then why is it such a hassle for things to be scheduled on a Sunday? In fact, many workplaces still don't give off Saturday as a given, but they do give off Sunday. Wouldn't you want more people (Jewish or not) to be included?

Jews, whether you like it or not, were and are deeply foundational to the modern LGBTQ Pride and Rights movement. Magnus Hirschfeld was a Jew. Harvey Milk was a Jew. Brenda Howard, the literal "Mother of Pride" was a Jew. They may not have been Orthodox Jews or Shabbat-observant, but Jews of all levels of observance and religiosity deserve to be included. And Jewish religious institutions have been supportive of LGBTQ causes for decades. And even if Jews weren't part of and supporters of the community from the start, Jews are part of the community now and ought to be included, as should people of all ethnicities, races, religions, and nationalities.

But honestly? My views have changed since I made that post that earned it a screenshot and post onto reddit saying "look how crazy and entitled those Jews are". I think the Western LGBTQ movement's exclusion and hatred of Jews now goes far beyond scheduling things on Saturdays. That's just the surface level. Things are far more overt when Jewish interest groups are quite literally banned from Pride events, when Jews are regularly harassed and attacked both off-line and online, when the overwhelming message from the Western LGBTQ world is that an LGBTQ person who is also a Jew is a traitor to their own kind. And it gets worse and worse each year as more LGBTQ people trade in their own safety and welfare and future prospects to spend their time, energy, and money hating Jews. Not only is it disgustingly hateful, it's counterproductive. LGBTQ rights are being attacked and stripped away all around the Western world, but people care more about investing their energy into best excluding Jews, Jews who, LGBTQ or not, would be and are supportive of LGBTQ causes. It's deeply insidious.

My schedule isn't more important than anyone else's. I know that. You know that, and you know that you were reading my post in bad faith. Jews are not the only people who would benefit from important Pride events not being scheduled on Saturdays. People who still have to work on Saturdays would benefit too. And I know you read a tiny snippet of my post and blacked out, because in that post I also mentioned Pride events being scheduled on Jewish holidays (Shavuot often times falls out in June). I think if you are in a community with a large number of Jews who are contributing members, it's only basic decency to be considerate. I am annoyed at conventions that do that same thing, mind you. But "niche interest conventions" are not a broad, umbrella movement the way the Western LGBTQ movement is. A science fiction convention isn't part of the same movement as a WWII history airshow, for example, and they are often not run by the same kinds of people and they are often not even attended by the same kinds of people.

Put on your thinking cap and think for a moment as to why you have such a visceral reaction to a Jew asking to be included.

[tzelofachad]

Can you walk to pride parades?

[magnetothemagnificent]

Depends where you live, depends on the person. For some people, being in a parade, where music is blasting, etc. isn't okay on Shabbat, it's not in the spirit of Shabbat. There's also the issue of how to get there, or even what to do once you're there. If a city doesn't have an Eruv, an Eruv observant Jew wouldn't be able to carry anything. And then there's distance. Some people don't live within walking distance of their local parades.

[tzelofachad]

I just feel like, while they should make SOME events on Sundays, Jews make up a very small percentage of the population, and proportionally so to the LGBTQ community. I think they should make it on the day that works for the most people, and often times that is sadly Shabbat. I don’t think that is actively antisemitic, just bad luck. the other stuff, though, is antisemitic

[magnetothemagnificent]

My point is that I don't think it's even more convenient for events to be scheduled on Saturdays, for anyone. Like I said, in many places, people still have work on Saturdays, but Sundays are their days off. That's why it feels specifically spiteful. Because Sunday is a much more convenient day anyway.

[tzelofachad]

I don’t think you have any way of knowing what days are more convenient. Additionally, i find it simply beyond belief that they would intentionally schedule pride to spite Jews. That is a logistical and psychological nigh-impossibility, and I cannot imagine how it could be true.

[magnetothemagnificent]

You're right, I have no way of knowing that most Pride events scheduled on Saturdays do say specifically to spite Jews, but it feels that way, and it certainly is not impossible. Especially when many Pride events can and have blatantly excluded Jewish organizations from participating- is it really that unbelievable to think that some people would want to spite Jews?

Additionally, the general culture, not just among Pride events but in general, of hosting important events on Saturday, and not on Sundays when most people don't work anyway, I do believe comes, at least on a certain level, from not wanting to accommodate Jews. Western society was built upon the foundation of spiting and excluding Jews.

[tzelofachad]

for point Two, maybe? But for point one, antisemitism in pride is on a huge rise, but not enough to cause this. Who *benefits* from organizing pride to not be on Sunday? And most people ALSO don’t work on Saturday!

[magnetothemagnificent]

Look, and I don't mean this to be patronizing, but your blog description says you're a minor, so you might not have as much experience with certain things as others. That's alright! It's normal to not know everything! But I am telling you that presently it's very normal in many places for people to work on Saturday. In Christian founded countries, many of them have Sunday as some kind of government weekend (not always), but they won't have Saturday. While in the American public school system, for example, Saturday and Sunday make up the weekend, that is not the case for every workplace. Many different workplaces are open on Saturday and expect their employees to come in to work that day. In fact, many are open on Sunday, too! But less so than Saturday. At my workplace, for example, while I personally don't come in on Saturday (even though I've been asked if I could numerous times), the office is open on some Saturdays. This is normal. Especially for service industry jobs, work on Saturday is the norm.

[captainlordauditor]

It’s pretty common here for local and specialized stores (sewing stores, for example, which drives me nuts) to either be closed on Sunday or have limited hours. Some of them ALSO have limited hours on Saturday but the ones that do tend to have even more limited hours on Sunday.

The reason people don’t work on Saturday, by the way, is because of Jews — that’s why we have Saturday off and not Monday. Prior to the mass immigration from Eastern Europe of the late 19th century, it was most common for people to work six days a week. When Jews arrived en mass we formed labor unions demanding, alongside better working conditions, shorter hours and Shabbat off. You’re welcome.

Incidentally, according to rav Google Jews make up about 8-10% of the population of both DC and Philadelphia, meaning that roughly the same number of Jews are in those areas as queer people.

[bunjywunjy]

How big was the largest recorded pig ever?

the record holder for largest domestic pig was Big Bill from Jackson, Tennessee at 2,552 pounds in 1933!

he was also five feet tall at the shoulder. this thing was the size of a small cow.

unfortunately, he was TOO big and had to be put down after he broke a leg because he couldn't support his own weight. modern domestic breeds have largely moved away from this maximum weight model and are more geared towards leaner pigs that don't risk injury from their own size.

[bunjywunjy]

tldr:

[qcharlie]

please god watch this right now

[fangirltothefullest]

The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Radical concept but. . . dehumanizing people at all let alone for where they happened to be born. . . . . . is bad.