• 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    It sounds more like ADHD than Autism to me, but there is so much overlap. I might do this a little too often.

    • Kay Ohtie@pawb.socialEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      Yeah this is an ADHD “stuck” thing from executive dysfunction for me. Typically I’m trapped reading a wiki and…

      gross

      …picking my skin at my feet til bleeding when that happens.

      • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        While it is possible to have autism and depression, and I really don’t want to take away from anyone’s struggles, I have noticed that many people with autism (including myself) are misdiagnosed as having depression and anxiety when they actually have autistic burnout.

        Autistic burnout is very similar to the kind of burnout neurotypical people can get from overworking at a stressful job, but unlike a job that can be quit (with financial repercussions), an autistic person doesn’t have the option to rest and get away from the everyday life that’s causing the burnout.

        Importantly, the treatments for depression and anxiety will not work effectively for autistic burnout - only treating the cause will work.
        So many health professionals are unaware that autistic burnout exists, so they can’t diagnose or treat it correctly.

        • modular950@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          I’ve somewhat recently become familiar with the term “autistic burnout” myself. Can you share some more with regards to your statement - “only treating the cause will work.”

          I’m sure that the cause may be different from person to person, but do you have any insights towards determining what that cause is? I am, and have been, in what feels like an eternal loop of feeling or being labeled as anxious, depressed, various ADHD symptoms, etc. and struggle more and more to determine what’s real, what’s a clouded effect of something different, and so on.

          all to say, I’m stuck somewhere in this knotted ball of yarn and dont even know which thread is the real end to start pulling on, knotting it up even worse.

    • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
      311·
      3 days ago

      Nah, it’s just an existential crisis. Usually happens when people used to doing something sit around doing nothing, but it also happens when eating high calorie meals and not burning the excess energy. It’s like a boiling pot looking to vent the pressure.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    This is the shit that made me actively seek a doctor to tell me wtf is wrong with me. I never heard of “executive function” before being diagnosed with half a dozen abbreviations. I just thought I was lazy and didn’t have the secret normal functioning people know.

  • cynar@piefed.socialEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    That’s executive functioning failure. It’s common with ADHD (which is strongly comorbid with Autism) but not unique to it.

    Basically, the part of your brain dealing with task focus is either asleep or exhausted. At that point, you are running on pure impulsiveness.

    If you get locked in, the best bet is to stop banging your head against a brick wall. Stop trying to do the big task, that is stressing you. Instead aim for a small, neutral or positive task to lock on to. E.g. throwing together a sandwich, or going to the loo, rather than “I REALLY need to get my taxes done!” It’s a far from perfect method (it still fails often), but it does help kickstart you back to higher brain thinking.

  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    3 days ago

    damp. laying in an empty bathtub with my towel covering me. scrolling Lemmy… it’s 4 am. I need to be at work at 5 am. I worked last night til 10 pm

  • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I have this problem all the time. Ever since I was a kid. I always think it’s just a lack of discipline. For some reason, I keep denying that it could be ADHD.