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Measuring autistic burnout: A psychometric validation of the AASPIRE Autistic Burnout Measure in autistic adults. Autism, 30(1), 20-36. 2026.
Autistic people have described autistic burnout as an intense experience of physical, emotional, mental and social exhaustion impacting their ability to complete everyday tasks and contributing to poorer well-being. To identify and measure autistic burnout in practice and research, we need a self-report measure that gives accurate and consistent results.
The Autistic Burnout Measure was found to be reliable and valid. Autistic adults reporting greater autistic burnout also reported more camouflaging, autistic traits and greater general burnout, depression, and anxiety.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613251355255
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #ASD #AutisticBurnout #Burnout
I just invented the verb 'aut' in a comment on TikTok. "I aut like mad...". Is this a neologism?
#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
For that reason I am so critical of media presenting autistic people as savants.
You don't have to be a genius, a celebrity, exploit your special interest for capitalism, you don't have to be useful to deserve kindness, patience and love.
working on a piece called, “Allistics DGAF” 😈
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@autistics #autism #ActualllyAutistic
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The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reaffirms that vaccines are a proven, essential tool for protecting people’s health. We join health agencies and associations across the country, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Autism Science Foundation, in confirming that there is no credible scientific evidence linking #vaccines to #autism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccines-autism-website.html
What a piece of shit.
Who cares how many people die, as long as you're "right"? /s
I have something to add to the debate: Not only do I have solid grounds for not believing that getting vaccinated caused my autism, but I DON'T CARE! I would tell my parents they did the right thing by getting me vaccinated. Autism didn't ruin my life. Dying of a preventable disease certainly would have, though!
I have a question: does high IQ often correlate with high sensitivity or strong sensory sensitivities?
I've been wondering.
#AuDHD
#Autism
#neuroscience
#neurodivergence
@autistics
A while ago I was listening to the Autistic Culture Podcast and Matt (who's since left) brought up the intense world theory of #Autism, which explains a lot about our brains.
According to studies (in link below), generally, the #Autistic brain generates 42% more information at rest, over-activates upon eye contact and reading faces, and has closer synaptic firing. No wonder we get easily overwhelmed by the world! 😵💫
Three years ago, I hesitantly signed up on my first instance on Fedi and staggered out onto the social media stage for the first time in my life. Why I chose Mastodon for this, is more of a why not, than a why. It was during the great Twitter wave and I'd read a few things about it and it seemed like a good a place as any.
The first thing I did was search the hashtags (even I knew to do that) for my autistic brethren. From that day to this, I have not been disappointed in what I found. Either in the welcome, or the sense of community. Or even, possibly, that I've never come across a bigger bunch of weirdos, misfits and malcontents in all my life (😆) And yet you have all found a place in my heart.
I have learnt and grown so much by being here and continue to learn and broaden my understanding of not just autism, but so much else because of you all. For this and for so much more, I cannot thank you all enough. All of you who make up the Fediverse and who make this such a special place.
All aboard the #Lego #Autism ChooChoo. 😍
"LEGO High-Speed Passenger Train 60051 - First Train Service to the Coal Mine Complex - OnBoard View"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8QLA43Y-uM
Was awesome. @autistics
Thought it was time I posted these again... They also apply a lot to the neuro-diverse ADHD and autistic communities, as there's a lot of crossover with introversion.
A must read article about #AI detection tools and how #ableist those are, and the very negative effects it has against #neurodivergent persons like #Autistics and #ADHD.
Teachers must especially read this!
https://blog.ewancroft.uk/3m6njxcynds2n
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #AutisticActually #AuDHD #education
Autistic people don’t just ‘fail to fit’ into social norms and into the social order.
It seems quite a lot of the time we actually challenge the social order - often even just by existing.
Very interesting paper from Emily #Casanova and Trenton Holliday on the implications of #Neanderthal-derived SNPs in #autism susceptibility
Emily is #actuallyautistic
On this Christmas Day, as I prepare for my night work shift — my inpatient pharmacy workplace is, as it should be, open 24/7/365! — let me take a moment to mention that I'm continuing to work my way through @alice's wonderful bibliographic article on #autism. It's my intent eventually to read every academic paper and blog post linked from it. One of the most recently read and interesting ones: "A mixed methods study of barriers to formal diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in adults" (Lewis 2017). I can relate to the barriers Lewis describes; I had written off formal diagnosis as useless. But the most interesting part to me was "Impact of diagnosis" early on. The reported benefits of formal diagnosis are remarkable — enough to lead me to wonder whether it might be worth it after all!
@autistics So my spouse reminded me today that, years ago, we were discussing reasons why I dislike Dungeons and Dragons. One of them was the distinction between the Int and Wis scores and how which skills needed which seemed arbitrary to me.
My spouse could not explain the difference to me. In fact no one has an explanation of the difference that makes sense to me. But everyone but me seems to understand it.
When I ran games, I had a cheat sheet at the ready with a description of what they are supposed to be, so that I could get it right.
I described myself to my spouse as someone with 0 Wis, but a feat that lets me make Wis checks using my Int score at a -5 penalty. They understood. It made sense to them, knowing me.
Now, ten years later, we both know I was describing #autism. I literally use cognition (Int) to make up for a function my brain is deficient in (Wis).
Clearly some part of me knew, but I lacked the understanding of autism to describe it correctly (really, it was allism I didn't get).
The past week with the heat, and now last night with sporadic thunder and smoke from the fires and the house still being hot has been bloody awful. Nothing compared to what people in the fire zones are experiencing, but still grim.
#vicpol #auspol #climate ##Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
- but also, I just feel like a burden and I've now been 'sold' to my wife a lie. I'm not who or what she was expecting when she married me.
I feel like I'd lied to her about who I am (even if I didn't know the truth) .
"A major new review has put hundreds of alternative autism treatments under the microscope—and most didn’t hold up. Scientists analysed decades of research and found little reliable evidence that popular approaches like probiotics, acupuncture, or music therapy truly work. Alarmingly, safety was often ignored, with many treatments never properly evaluated for side effects."
#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#neurodiversity
#neurodivergence
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251227082722.htm