High-masking autistic women are drowning in burnout, because we’ve been forced to hide our disability just to survive. Masking develops in an attempt to avoid bullying, rejection, and abandonment. From the outside, we look like we’re “fine.” Inside, we’re struggling to breathe. And when the mask slips, when we collapse from exhaustion or finally set a boundary, the same people who benefitted from our over-functioning accuse us of faking. They say we’re not autistic enough. Not disabled enough. N
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You’re about to be called out 📢 If you’re a high-masking autistic woman stuck burnout, I’m talking to you. Maybe you’ve been forcing yourself to function through burnout for years… Or maybe you’re trapped in a cycle where you get out of burnout…only to end up right back where you started after a few weeks or months. If this is you, you’re definitely not alone, and it’s not your fault. Autistic burnout happens because we’re autistic in a world that wasn’t built for us. And if you’re high-masking
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