When I was in college, there were days, even full weeks, where I literally couldn’t get myself to leave my apartment or do anything.

Since discovering I’m autistic, I now know exactly what it was.

It was autistic burnout…

So I’m autistic, Level 1, and today I want to talk about two things that I experience as an autistic person with lower support needs that impact me on a daily basis, but you wouldn’t be able to tell just by looking at me for the most part.

So these two things are autistic anxiety and autistic burnout.

Autism, disordered eating, autistic anxiety, alcohol use as a coping mechanism, and more…

I don’t usually share photos of my full body on here because it’s rarely relevant to my content, but today it feels relevant, so here goes…

I’m level 1 autistic and I had a heart attack when I was 34 years old, and I want to talk about why I think it was my autism that led to that heart attack...

For autism awareness month, I want to talk about the rates of suicide in autistic individuals because the numbers are alarming, and I don’t think it’s talked about NEARLY enough...