Like most people, I have an extremely busy life, and as an audhd this fact causes me to burn out more often. Some days I will leave the comfort of my bed at an ungodly hour in the morning, only to return back during the night. In addition, having to include studying and work outs is getting increasingly exhausting.
Taking time out to recover is very important for your mental health, as being burnt out (especially as an autistic and adhd person) sucks. But, if you do it right its all for the better, since building skills characteristics, as well as being confident in your craft and skill, can help you in the future.For example, setting up a business on said skill or choosing your career to do something you love is very important.
For me, I love fashion. I enjoy working with fabric, tailoring and making all sorts of stuff. I love the idea of fashion an tech coming together to make amazing pieces of work and design.
My company/business will be called animalitos and will have different branches. The fashion branch is gonna be named ranita meaning little frog.
Anyways back on topic, to sum everything up, burnout sucks and you need to take time to recover your energy.
Theres a theory on this called the spoon theory, stay with me. The spoon theory is where each person gets 12 spoons each day, each task takes a different amount of spoons depending on the task. For example, taking meds is equal to one spoon, reading or scrolling is equal to two spoons, cleaning three and school/work is four spoons.
Now, heres the catch, neurotypical people regain their spoons when they sleep. Whereas, neurospicy individuals like myself recover spoons irregularly. In addition, people with disabilities such as ME or Anemia, in which a symptom is lack of energy, get less spoons per day.
You’re allowed to take spoons from the day after or the day after that but theres a limit to how many days you can take from.
A burnout is a way for us to recover spoons by doing absolutely nothing.
Burning out looks different for everyone but most commonly is like ‘duvet days’, or just laying on your bed not having the energy to get up.
So guys, moral of the story is to always take care of your bodys and minds, and yes it’s a priority.
See you soon Ranita’s x
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