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Autistic Burnout, Bodymind and Soul

By Helen Edgar More Realms 30 Jul 2025 1 MIN READ

Kieran Rose (2018) describes autistic burnout as a ‘crash where you keep on crashing’. This resonates deeply. I have experienced cycles of burnout throughout my life due to systemic unmet needs living as an autistic person in a world primarily designed for non-autistic people. The double empathy problem (Milton, 2012)…

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