Rest Won’t Save You From Burnout
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Rest Won’t Save You From Burnout
When I’m swept up in a special interest, I feel alive. The concepts of “work-life” balance and “burnout” just don’t always translate to Autistic people’s schedules in the ways neurotypicals might expect. I’ve gotten intense burnout from periods of my life where I worked relatively little but socialized a lot, for example.
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Susan would complain that the present, the life she was living moment to moment, felt unreal to her. Only the future really mattered, for that was where her ideal life resided. “If I just wait a little longer”, she would remark in a tone of wry despondency, “there’ll be this magically transformative event and everything will come right.”
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... See moreI was confused how to 'rest' in a way that seems distinct from vegetating (TV, games, scrolling) or working (art, code)
I grilled my friends about how they rest, and came up with a tentative list of different *types* of exhaustion, which need separate solutions
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