Emerging from Neurodivergent Burnout
The lived experience narratives of neurodivergent people often relate to a specific kind of burnout that severely impacts their ability to participate in school, employment, and other social settings. What is this burnout? How does it look? How is it related to semi-clinical phenomena like RSD, and PDA and shame? This presentation will address these questions and provide a framework for helping people with invisible and visible disabilities move past, and avoid, the effects of burnout.
Andrew Coltrin is a neurodivergent writer and artist. As a kid, Andrew thought he was just weird, anxious and unexplainably broken. Decades later, the DSM had an update that caught up with his lived experience. He was diagnosed as autistic at age 37.