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Autistic Adults

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Autistic Adults - focused on those age 23 and older where the individual person has left the organized structure of school or military and is dealing with autism in adulthood. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in adulthood.

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Yo, how bad does autistic burnout get before it becomes something more serious? (old.reddit.com)
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In my case if I go weeks on end with no break from human presence, I will start hallucinating muffled conversations and fan-like drones etc at all times when there isn't sufficiently loud complex noise, and also I'll see "bugs" constantly in the corner of my vision, like jump scare - there's a spider on the wall, oh wait no there isn't type thing, but 50 times a day. also can get lost parsing sensory input in shared spaces, allowing people to sneak up on me (usually impossible due to the 3D hearing which I can never shut off) and give me a jump scare.