Im not sure what autistic burnout but sometimes I feel like I have never really recovered from burnout. Way back in high school I was really burning it with ap classes and such and when I went to college I started strong but felt like I was falling a bit every semester. Like first semester college was A+ across the board but it kinda went down each semester. so semster two was like A and first sophmore was A- then B+ Then B then B- then C+ and C and here is the kicker I went five years to pick up a second major so like c- and D+ at the end. I like barely escaped with a decent gpa. Then I went into a PhD program which leaned heavily on my GRE score and ended up leaving that within a year (not totally burnout as a close family friend died and was very disillusioned with the path). I worked in the industry for a few years and I think recovered a bit from burnout and then moved into IT with a few certs and worked at a really interesting place but was kinda even burning out there despite how neat it was. That was like a decade though. then went into standard corpo type of work and was kinda excited to get good pay but oh man the first place was in finance and moved to the e-commerce which felt a bit better although I did wonder about data sharing type stuff and felt a bit less burnt out. Then I moved to insurance which was not bad when you look at insurance in the ideal and since we were providing services to companies I did not have to worry about the particular company dealing dirty. Still long years in the industry and as I said it never really feels like the burnout goes completely away. I have been unemployed for almost two years but that does not help as looking for work is stressfull and depressing.