Chronicles of an Atypical Mind — Unfiltered and Unapologetic
Personal stories, science-based articles, and resources on autism, bipolar disorder, and atypical cognition.
People often told me my laugh was “strange” throughout my school years. Muffled, choppy, sometimes almost out of breath. Years later, during my autism assessment, I began to wonder whether my laughter might be atypical too. The answers I found were far more nuanced than I had imagined.
I’ve explained several times on this blog how capable I am of treating a rule like a sacred creed. One of those rules came from the countless times my father scolded me for losing important documents. “Scan it”, “How many times have I told you to scan things?”, “You’ll have to learn to scan your documents.” And countless variations of the same message eventually got through to me.
Today, more and more definitions of autistic burnout can be found online. Researchers are beginning to take an interest in it as well. Yet the question most often asked by the people experiencing it is rarely addressed: how do you recover from it? I asked myself this question after my diagnosis, and I have seen it raised countless times on social media. It therefore seemed natural to explore it in detail.