Two AuDHD mental health professionals discuss Autistic Burnout
DR. MEGAN NEFF: What if the recovery from autistic burnout is depressing — like in the sense of like, isolation, darkness? Like, what a brutal Catch-22 if what we need for our bodies to recover are also things that disconnect us and slow our bodies down to a degree that we're then losing connection with the things that give our life meaning and joy...
PATRICK CASALE: Yeah...And you and I are both ADHD. The ADHD parts of me are like, "This is fucking terrible. Like, laying here, doing nothing, not creating, not feeling energized, not feeling like there's a spark or something to get excited about." And the autistic part wins every time, because it's like, waving the white flag, right? Of like, "I can't. Like, I can't do more than I can do right now."
- From the Divergent Conversations podcast, episode 2: Autistic Burnout (click to listen / read transcript)















