I've been hearing about "Autistic burnout" for years and I still have yet to see a single reason how it doesn't have 100% overlap with the concept of "burnout".

I've been hearing about "Autistic burnout" for years and I still have yet to see a single reason how it doesn't have 100% overlap with the concept of "burnout". In fact NYT gets all their recommendations from a book on burnout, which just goes to show you how autistic burnout and burnout are the same thing, they have 100% overlap, there isn't a difference, I have never heard a person talk about "autistic burnout" and didn't suggest we react to it in a way that was in any way different from regular burnout. I also have a huge caution of making autism look like it has a lot of unique and special mental phenomena going on, literally anything that can cause autistic like symptoms can result in an autism diagnosis because it's a heterogenous diagnosis defined by others perception of you. There is if anything an especially diverse amount of reasons why autistic people would feel "burnt out" relative to most people. The person in the article is working multiple jobs and when she breaks down her conclusion is she's a victim of her mental disorder. No that's stupid. What she experienced is simply what happens when you work multiple jobs, your body tries to protect itself from the damage by making you stop. There is nothing wrong or aberrant going on, what's wrong is peoples desire to live lifestyles that only hurt them and their self-perception that they're mentally disordered if they can't force themselves to do them.