Dr. Natalie Engelbrecht ND RP: Do you—like myself—have an obsessive & compulsive preoccupation with being a good person? You might have moral scrupulosity OCD! Read the article to learn more.| Embrace Autism
Jade: I finally had a chance to read ‘The Ultimate Guide to Autistic Burnout’ by my colleagues. It’s reassuring to know that I now have a roadmap to recover from burnout.| Embrace Autism
RFK Jr.’s recent statements about autism are not only inaccurate—they are profoundly dehumanizing. In this letter, I want to address its impact on our community.| Embrace Autism
Eva: I realized I have a need to talk about my grief at the loss of our sweet Pluto, and to explore the research literature on how autistics grieve differently—perhaps to better contextualize my experience with loss.| Embrace Autism
Dr. Natalie Engelbrecht ND RP: In recent years, more adults are recognizing their autistic traits and pursuing autism diagnoses. In this article, I explore the rise in late autism diagnoses.| Embrace Autism
Columbus Tal: Navigating life with AuDHD has shaped my education, just as my education has shaped my understanding of it. This is my journey of challenges, acceptance, and self-discovery.| Embrace Autism
The Ultimate Guide to Autistic Burnout summarizes the most current research, and provides you with the tools to identify & recover from autistic burnout safely.| Embrace Autism
The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) is a burnout measure consisting of 3 subscales: personal burnout, work-related burnout, and client-related burnout.| Embrace Autism
The Autistic Burnout construct (ABO) is a self-report questionnaire that measures traits such as fatigue, exhaustion, and related symptoms to identify autistic burnout in autistic adults.| Embrace Autism
Dr. Natalie Engelbrecht: In this article, I will explore social demands as a cause of autistic burnout, and I will share the lived experience of five autistics including myself.| Embrace Autism
Dr. Engelbrecht ND RP: Autistic burnout is distinct from classical burnout, with different causes and symptoms. In this article, I will explain the differences between the two.| Embrace Autism
For autistics with ADHD, burnout isn’t always preventable in a neurotypical-paced world. Here, I share my own top two strategies for dealing with AuDHD burnout.| Embrace Autism
Burnout often looks different for autistics and people with ADHD. In this article, we discuss strategies to prevent burnout in people with AuDHD.| Embrace Autism
The idea of headroom is similar to spoon theory in its goals—except, headroom is about managing your energy/resources in the long term.| Embrace Autism
For many autistics, autistic burnout is the cost we pay for forcing success in a neurotypical world and adhering to neurotypical standards. But what is autistic burnout, and what can you do about it?| Embrace Autism
The term “flow” was first introduced in 1990 by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Csikszentmihalyi described it as “the experience of complete absorption in the present moment” (Nakamura and Csikszentmihalyi, 2009). Flow describes a mental state during which an individual is fully absorbed in what they are doing, losing awareness of time and feeling intrinsically motivated by the activity itself. Although flow…| Autism Awareness
