I’m new to talking about this with anyone that isn’t friend or family so speaking about this publicly is new to me but it most certainly is apart of my mental health journey so here we are - I wanna share my journey with you as it happens rather then hiding parts of my life and feeling shamed or gaslit by not having a diagnosis (by an already floored system that hasn’t been disigned for women) - I recommend listening to the podcast My Friend Autism to help depen you understanding of Autism it helped me understand myself and understand autism - he speaks very factually it is so helpful
learning about Autistic burnout gave me so much understand of what I’d been expirencing. I’ve spent so many years so desperatly sad and exhausted and full of self hatred and tbh this is only just the beginning of my self discovery journey, I am very much burntout and in the process of learning how to recover from that burnout some days are okay and the rest are exhausting but if I can help another undiagnosed autistic girl avoid autistic burnout or even just avoid the stressful life of being undiagnosed just by speaking about it so be it :) #autismawareness #autisticburnout
I almost didnt go to class because of the pressure I was putting on myself to be and act a certain way, so my solution was to show up and purely focus on completing the moves and picking up the dance. I moved my body (good for mood regualtion) and gave myself confidence by showing up to something I told myself I would, and got to learn a new dance so thats my wins for today.