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Protecting yourself after autistic burnout

Shelley is late diagnosed autistic and ADHD - she spoke to us about how she protects herself from burnouts.

She explained how she feels bad about not putting clean clothes away after doing a wash, adding "I had this shame spiral about it".

But she says she checked herself and thought, "If I'm living out of a basket of clean clothes for two weeks then that's what I'm doing and that's fine".

She admitted doing this gave her some "energy back" by removing "unnecessary tasks".

This content forms part of 蜜芽传媒 5 Live鈥檚 Me, My Health and I series and came during Neurodiversity Celebration week which ran 18 - 24 March 2024.

This clip is originally from Naga Munchetty on 20 March 2024.

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