Diagnosis follwing burnout

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Hi all,

Having just been diagnosed off the back of having a massive burnout episode (amongst other things) and having noticed that it seems like many late diagnosed autistic people seem to reach their diagnosis following burnout. I would be curious to see what other people's experiences have been.

I have been off work for nearly 6 months and will be returning soon on a redeployment as I am now unable to return to my previous role due to the stress and trauma that it has caused.

I would love to hear what others have experienced.

Congratulations on the diagnosis! I hope you continue enjoying WP.

And I was a really late diagnosis. I had my assessment and got my diagnosis all in the month before my 65th birthday. By which time I'd been retired twice, most recently while I was 56...so I never really associated things in my life with Autism.

I do know there were stretches where I was really, really unhappy for a prolonged period of time, however.

My unofficial diagnosis probably happened during late elementary.
Primarily because there was an outside school observer who assesses classroom for students with 'red flags' for developmental issues.

And I don't mask or pass.

And it stretched for few years into high school, right somewhere before that one burnout that made me not go to school for years after making it an official diagnosis because of finances.


So it's more like -- my stretched out burnout that made me increasingly violent warranted my family and everyone around me to get me diagnosed.


I'm more than certain that I'm diagnosable at age 10.

In fact, people around me seen that I was diagnosable at age 5, they just don't know that there is such thing as autism without the intellectual disability and the alexithymia.

The diagnosis itself was not very attainable in my household and region.


I cannot relate to the late diagnosed stories that involves being a heavy masker, being developmentally late without knowing, struggle to achieve types, needing support, imposter syndrome and needing validation...

And my main source of burnout is internal sensory that made external sources more of an add on, as opposed to external sensory and social sources.

I cannot relate to the early diagnosed stories either. Never felt the label looming in my head, never been segregated, never needed support to such degree, never have I ever let my family use the label to justify me...

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