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 something you can “quick fix.” But so many adults are told to try things that simply don’t work—and end up feeling worse when the burnout doesn’t lift. Here are some more fake fixes that DON’T work: ❌ Forcing yourself to “push through” ❌ More productivity hacks ❌ Positive thinking only ❌ Masking harder to “fit in” ❌ Resting for a weekend and expecting to bounce back. ❌ Therapy that only teaches coping skills without real environmental change ❌ Over-relying on meds or su

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