Thank you for sharing. I really needed this today.

Oh my gosh this discussion was just delightful!!

Thank you!

I resonated sooooo much with allll of this

this was helpful and hope giving, thank you !!

How can I feel my feelings if they all feel like scribbles 😭 I've been trying to get into alexithymia targeted therapy but the place hasn't gotten back to me

Sounds sooo familiar. Thanks for sharing your story 😊

I want to watch this!

Could you please make a version of this without the loud music? It made me have to abandon ship. Thank you ❤

The stress is so real for this!

Sounds interesting ❤

I'm not diagnosed (still researching heavily & piecing it all together) but this description very closely matches mine. (Compared to others where I struggled to differentiate between their version & NT depression) The number of searches & tests I did trying to figure out what was happening to me is insane. Thank you for articulating my scary experience almost perfectly X

Thank you so much to each of our wonderful community members for being here today! I'm so sorry I wasn't able to attend with all of you live. I have been under the weather this afternoon. Sending you all a big ray of sparkle for the rest of your day! Big love to Nori, Michelle, Edna and Bridgette.

Watching this after a major disruption to my routine (vacation during the school year), so I appreciate that you made this video. So many vids I saw when searching were about BUILDING routines, not recovering them. (I'm not yet diagnosed, my eval is later this year)

I’m totally overwhelmed by the system constant fight for 12 yrs with UK NHS, DWP (benefit), social care still going on I’m utterly broken I think I have autistic burnout I have ASD & ADHD, diagnosed 2021 I was diagnosed at 48. My coping strategies have disappeared and I’m utterly overwhelmed. This is different to depression!

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Did y'all write when you were younger and do you stillw rite today?😊

Finding a place where people can hold space for you to heal in your best way. I loved how she shared this.

Your Video content is very helpful

Great Advice

I’m an elementary school teacher for a large urban school district. We are given 10 days of PTO sick days. If we use 5 of them, it is considered “poor attendance” and if in a review year, we are given a “does not meet standards” for attendance. Working with young kids, 10 days is hardly enough time to protect us if we get sick, let alone needing mental health days. 😢. I take all my days nonetheless, and after 26 years, I don’t care about the review status. My well-being is a priority. Especially now that I’ve realized I’m AUDHD and need those days for recovery.❤

Such good advice. Sometimes the day is moving too fast to remember to check in. Or with time blindness, (I go back and forth between both experiences), I don’t realize how long it’s been since I had last checked in. I work as an elementary school teacher and am an AUDHDer. I actually need A LOT of check in for myself, but the job makes it hard to do. I ensure to have my quiet mornings before work and an hour to myself before bed to do this.

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Great episode! 🙌 Yes Stanley, I agree... sugar is ☠️

Love this

oooo weee that was good !!! And I love those theme songs soooo much ! Thank you Carol !

No more thank you

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Yes let’s go thank you. Purposeful please.

You find when you hit burnout you just wanna sleep or be destracted by a hobhy and just want to switch off from the outside world?

Unmasking infront of co workers has gotten me into trouble...every single time. Once that person enjoys your personality, it becomes a drug. If you put it back on, then all of a sudden, that person doesn't enjoy you as much since you are now turned off and in autopilot and a shell of your actual personality. When you find that person who understands you, others become suspicious and cospire, you have an agenda against them since I open up to 1 and not all of them. Then people think I personally dislike them, but I genuinely know they never whoukd like me anyway.

Excellent video! I'm someone who only smiles when she's happy, and I actually do smile but some people think I don't because I always look like I'm bored or annoyed in photos (it's just my natural expression). I've always refused to do fake smiles for cameras and I'll be in my usual "mouth slightly open" expression in photos that I have all the time when everyone else is smiling, as a result, I got nicknamed "Sourpuss Jamie" by some as a kid for this. Funnily enough, when the sun's in my eyes I make that squinty face that looks like a smile and at first glance I look like I'm constantly smiling. and so people often take photos of me when I'm outside. Like in my photo taken at the beach last summer, I'm not actually smiling but making a "the sun hurts my eyes" face but I still love the photo so I use it everywhere (also, it's the only one that does a good job of hiding my turkey neck, I'm 23 and my neck looks older, sloped at a 45 degree angle despite the fact I'm quite thin, 130 pounds at 5'10"). Thankfully people stopped asking me to smile for photos because they know how uncomfortable it makes me.

Oh my gosh - I just found you/this....THIS is me. Thank you. I feel more hope right now than i have in years....

Great video, thank you :)

What a cute video! Great edits!

I am Autistic, late dignosed and work NHS, initially supported but frequent burnout exasperated by work and no help has led me to being unsupported and on the verge of bullying.

such a fun episode. and i love how you asked "what do I have control over"

Awesome video

We would like for you to interview Andrea. Would like for her to speak about her personal experience with the intersectionailty of being autistic and asian. Thanks!

Dr. Nicole Mahly, is truly a kind hearted person. I have benefited a lot from watching his videos.

22:22 the word yu're looking for is pheromones

Thank you.

'Promosm' 💕

Yes this is true. Stand and listen.

Listen!!!

I thought it was fibromyalgia maybe burnout now I think about it and yes lose my executive function

I am self diagnosed at the moment after having both our daughters assessed at the ages of 12 and 14 years old in November 2023, we are waiting for our son to be assessed for ADHD which although he's been on the waiting list for 2 years nearly and were told it will probably take another 2 years waiting before he is seen. UK NHS. Looking back I think my peri-menopause started in 2019 but I also ended up with a chest infection which moved into phenomena just before COVID was really taking hold in the UK, I noticed several signs like weight gain initially around my middle and even though until the phenomena I was active with 3 young kids I could never loose weight I don't eat much food or lots of sugar etc so there was no reason I shouldn't loose weight, well after that I had a couple of UTIs then all of a sudden the brain fog, face hair, exhaustion and I'm talking I could not sleep at night for the insomnia and the sheer exhaustion I was glad the kids were at school all day because I would be up all night unable to sleep for restless leg and anxiety and couldn't rest, then during the day I would fall asleep as soon as the kids were gone from the house at 8.15am and I could not even move until 3pm sometimes 4pm when or after they were home again, 😢 I have always not slept for long but I suddenly could not stay awake. I didn't get the night sweats that was the only thing in think, i get occasionally warm but not bad, when I was awake i had no energy so was basically making dinner and doing a wash load a day and then spending my time trying to sleep or being asleep. My bones especially my joints like my elbows and fingers and legs were in excruciating pain all the time , but it was the migraines that eventually when I had a 10 day migraine I gave up and went to the doctors after having researched all my symptoms that had taken from 2019 to 2023 to creep up onto me...me going to the doctors after self diagnosing myself as being in perj menopause was the best thing I ever did she put me straight onto patches and i had a blood test which showed me as suddenly being type 2 diabetic even though i hardly eat and don't eat excess junk foods etc (she confirmed that it was probably brought on because I was sleeping soo much and unable to exercise because of the exhaustion and so it was peri menopause induced through inactivity) well within 3 months of being diagnosed as type 2 my bloods were taken again and were back to levels well below the markers for type 2, so now my hormones are sort of in check with the patches the brain fog has gone I don't feel like I'm going mad anymore and I can sleep for 4 hours straight at night and I have been awake most days all day since 2 days after starting the patches. I wish I had known the other symptoms of peri menopause as in had 13 side effects in total when i totted them up, itchy skin (all the time) being another of them too. I saw my doctor in July 2023 and had been suffering in silence for around 4 years before realising something wasn't right. I think there needs to be a proper study into neurodiversity and the effects of peri menopause and menopause because I had to dig deep to find the information that I found all while suffering with imposter syndrome about if I might be autistic as well because of the research that sounded like my life story when reading up on autism in girls while waiting for them to be assessed. I also wonder if the study should include people that self identify as autistic or ADHD or both. I had my 3 kids from the age of 32 my eldest is 14 now, middle daughter is 12 and our son is 10. I will be 47 next month and I am still undecided if I should be assessed myself. I was mortified when after having such awful painful periods from the age of 10 my whole life when my middle child also started at the age of 10 the first day of starting year 6 and both girls have both experienced Painful periods so I made sure they were seen by the doctor because it was awful watching them suffer like I did. They have both been put on a mini pill which has helped a lot with pain. I just wish that had been an option for me when I was 10 I missed out on soo much due to cramps that went on for months...... Sorry for the rambling I just feel us women deserve to finally be heard, and that more study need to happen for Autistic and neurodiverse women and self diagnosed women to be included in the studies too. 😊