Explaining Autistic Burnout

Coming Summer 2026

Because you don't have the energy or the words to explain.

Most people in your life don’t understand autistic burnout — what it is, why it happens, or what actually helps. This workshop does the explaining for you. Share it with family, clinicians, employers, or anyone who wants to support you but doesn’t know how.

For autistics and their family, clinicians, and employers

Explaining Autistic Burnout​

Because when you're in autistic burnout, you don't have the energy or the words to explain. A free workshop for autistics and their family, clinicians, and employers.

Stages of Autistic Burnout and Recovery

Coming Summer 2026

What to expect, what helps, and what backfires

A map of the five stages of autistic burnout and recovery — what each one feels like from the inside, and what helps (and what doesn’t) at each stage. Because the standard playbook doesn’t work for autistic burnout. And some of it makes things worse.

For autistics and their supporters

Stages of Autistic Burnout and Recovery

The five stages of autistic burnout and recovery. What to expect, what helps, and what backfires. A free workshop for autistics and their supporters

What will these workshops cover?

Explaining Autistic Burnout

In this 60-minute workshop, you’ll learn:

  • Why autistic burnout is fundamentally different from regular burnout — and why that difference changes everything about how to respond to it
  • The hidden, cumulative costs that cause autistic burnout, including many that don’t show up on anyone’s to-do list
  • Why so much standard advice — including things that work for regular burnout — actively makes things worse for autistic people
  • What actually helps at each stage, and what to stop doing even when it comes from good intentions
  • How to be a genuinely supportive presence without adding to the load

Explaining Autistic Burnout​

Stages of Autistic Burnout and Recovery

In this 60-minute workshop, you’ll learn:

  • The five stages of autistic burnout and recovery — what each one looks and feels like from the inside
  • Why the person in burnout may seem fine to you when they aren’t, and why they may seem worse when they’re actually recovering
  • What helps at each stage, and what backfires — including things that seem like they should work but don’t
  • Why recovery isn’t about getting back to who they were before — and what it actually requires
  • How to support someone through burnout without inadvertently making it harder or longer

Stages of Autistic Burnout and Recovery

Are they really free?

Yes, these workshops are free.

And yes, I will be sharing information about my upcoming live autistic burnout recovery course at the end for a few minutes. I want to be transparent about that.

The vast majority of the workshop will be genuinely valuable info I am sharing without reservation.

You will also get my newsletter every other Tuesday on building your autism-positive life. With tips and insights on how to break the burnout cycle and build a life that actually works for your brain, your body, your whole self. Unsubscribe anytime.

Can I sign up for both?

Of course! You are very welcome to.

There will be a little overlap (in briefly explaining what autistic burnout is in the stages workshop), but there will also be a lot of independent content.

I am designing these to be a good combination. Learn first what autistic burnout is, and then get more in-depth into the stages and especially the process of recovery.

About accessibility

  • This is an inclusive, gender-affirming, trauma-sensitive,* and BS-free zone. ALL are welcome.
  • The workshop will be conducted via Zoom Meeting. 
  • You are welcome to participate with camera off or on, to listen quietly or communicate via chat or voice, to fidget, move, stimm, tic, or look away throughout. 
  • Live automatic captions will be on. 
  • You may turn the chat/self-view off or on as you like.
  • For executive function help, reminders will be emailed at T -1day, -3hrs, and -1hr.
  • The workshop will be recorded and transcribed so you will have access if you do not attend or want to review the info.
 

*The presenter is trauma informed and trauma sensitive, but you are the best judge of what you can handle at the moment. Please take care of yourself.