Autistic Burnout As A Crisis Of Connection

How Our Relationship To Existence Impacts And Is Shaped By Burnout

Burnout has a way of arriving like a quiet tide. You notice the shoreline receding only when your feet are suddenly cold. In neurodivergent life, that tide doesn’t simply pull back energy or focus; it drags whole pieces of selfhood out with it. Burnout is more than exhaustion. It’s a crisis of connection, a collapse in the bodymind’s ability to remain p…