Smile like you mean it
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.
Devon Price • Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Then on January 1, writer Sarah Hagi posted this on Twitter: “whats up with that thing people do where they have to do a performance for other adults to prove they are SO TIRED and LOVE GOING HOME EARLY and CANCELLING PLANS?”
There’s clearly something in the air because The Atlantic just published Derek Thompson’s cover story on “the anti-social... See more
There’s clearly something in the air because The Atlantic just published Derek Thompson’s cover story on “the anti-social... See more