You aren’t broken, and neither is your brain. If you lived in a world designed for minds like ours, you wouldn’t be constantly be doing things that deplete you and lead to Autistic “symptoms”, like Autistic Burnout. You’re a person who’s been told you're driving an automatic, when it turns out you’ve actually been driving a stick shift all this time. That’s great news - because you can learn how to drive a different kind of car. This article is a good place to start. Read on to learn more, and start noticing, reframing, recovering from, and even preventing Autistic Burnout.

Self-compassion ≠ making excuses. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. Instead, self-compassion is what allows us to get enough perspective to accurately identify the problem. This matters because correctly identifying a problem is the only real chance you have of solving that problem. Read more for an excellent example of what this looks like, and why self-compassion is so critical to our ability to make meaningful progress in any area of our lives.