Surviving My First Autistic Burnout

Extra Holly
6 min readDec 3, 2022

0/10 would not recommend being an undiagnosed autistic teen.

Photo by Elias Maurer on Unsplash

TW: self-harm, suicide, emotionally unavailable parents

My sophomore year of high school was intense.

I met my first boyfriend right before school started. My best friend was dating his friend, and we just fell together somehow. He asked me out, I said sure. I thought that meant we would…

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Extra Holly

Internet enthusiast. Very into my dog and learning new things. Overthinker, pattern-recognizer. Late-dx neuroqueer.