Autistic burnout recovery is not about pushing harder. I learned that the hard way. Burnout happens when your nervous system stays overloaded for too long. Masking. Sensory stress. Social pressure. High expectations. Eventually your system shuts down to protect you. Recovery starts with removing demand, not adding goals. These are the tips that actually helped me recover. I lowered input before I tried to raise output. Less noise. Fewer decisions. Simpler days. I stopped masking wherever it was

Autistic burnout isn’t a personal failure it’s a rest mismatch! It doesn’t happen because you didn’t rest enough. It happens because your nervous system hasn’t gotten the right kinds of rest. As a neuropsychologist, I see this constantly: people stop working, cancel plans, sleep more and still feel worse. That’s because autistic burnout isn’t repaired by “taking a break.” It’s repaired by specific nervous system rests. Here are the 7 autistic rests most adults are missing 👇 🧠 Sensory rest — re