Autistic burnout

Taxonomy of Terms / VI. Affect, time and attention

Foundational. Raymaker et al. (2020).

Long-term exhaustion, loss of function and reduced tolerance to stimulus, resulting from chronic life stress and a mismatch between expectations and ability without adequate support.

References

  • Raymaker, D. M., Teo, A. R., Steckler, N. A., Lentz, B., Scharer, M., Delos Santos, A., Kapp, S. K., Hunter, M., Joyce, A., & Nicolaidis, C. (2020). “Having all of your internal resources exhausted beyond measure and being left with no clean-up crew”: Defining autistic burnout. Autism in Adulthood, 2(2), 132–143.

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