"Having All of Your Internal Resources Exhausted Beyond Measure and Being Left with No Clean-Up Crew": Defining Autistic Burnout.

Unlabelled: Although autistic adults often discuss experiencing "autistic burnout" and attribute serious negative outcomes to it, the concept is almost completely absent from the academic and clinical literature. We used a community-based participatory research approach to conduct a thematic analysis of 19 interviews and 19 public Internet sources to understand and characterize autistic burnout. Interview participants were autistic adults who identified as having been professionally diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition.