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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Invader9363 on 2025-09-23 22:04:51+00:00.

I know that when you’re depressed/burnt-out/etc, you can’t see that it can end, so I need some confirmation.

Depression(most of the time) is temporary and can be healed with time and pills. Burnout can be healed with resting. But autistic burnout is different. For me, the problem is how this world works. Everything in it, from the capitalistic system to being in a relationship. How can I even theoretically rest, if life is the problem? Pills can’t help, you can’t change how your brain works and resting from life is impossible. Even if I could get an official diagnosis and convince my school to give me some adjustments, it won’t help, I won’t have any djustments at work and in life in general. I will still have to work 8/5 for the pay that barely gives me enough money to live. This is not the world I want to live in and have an energy to tolerate.

Does anyone have the same reason for a burnout? How do you live? How do you plan your future? How do you handle school/work? I can’t get an official diagnosis, because the wait time is at least a year, sometimes I can’t even get out of bed to go to school. How do I continue to live like this? After school I just lay in bed and try to run away from this world in hobbies, but it stopped working. I don’t have anything anymore that can even theoretically help me. But I don’t want to kill myself, I want to live, I like life and all the good things it has. How do I continue?