What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained

Autistic burnout is a state of chronic exhaustion where an Autistic person’s skills begin to degrade, and their tolerance to stress is greatly reduced.

I don’t know how to be involved with the minutiae of other people’s lives.

I remember the doctor who said that on a suicidal-ideation scale from one to ten, I was a two — and I remember that a brief disappointment ran through me. He was right, but I wished he had assessed me as just a little more suicidal.

“All of a sudden I’ve become this caricature,” said Burry. “I’ve always been able to study up on something and ace something really fast. I thought it was all something special about me. Now it’s like, ‘Oh, a lot of Asperger’s people can do that.’ Now I was explained by a disorder.”