Ask an Autistic - What are Autistic Shutdowns?

[Vinca]

I found this informative, so am sharing it.

 

[artfull dodger]

Thanks for posting that, I myself do experience shut downs and some times the mild ones I do not realize I am even going into a shutdown. The bad ones I do end up in the fetal position where ever it happens. When I feel a shut down coming on, many times at home after a long stressful day, I will just go to bed and get under my weighted blanket. That is my safe place. Mike

 

[qwerty]

i have seen this one and really thought it was very informative.
i definitely get shutdowns, and strongly relate.


thanks V

 

[zurb]

'like'

 

[Suzanne]

I either tend to escape to my bed and just sleep, or if I cannot do that, sort of go into myself and rock backwards and forwards and feel very surreal, so I guess that is not an actual shutshut; more a meltdown.

 

[camerartus]

Awesomeness! Thanks so much for posting this.

 

[zurb]

.... more a meltdown.

I used to be confused by 'meltdown'. I visualized a block of ice slowly melting.
But I think the way it is mostly used here is more like a nuclear meltdown. 30 years ago we'd probably have called it blowing up instead. So meltdown is an outburst, the opposite of shut down.

 

[camerartus]

What zurb said.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

Amethyst does really good videos, she explains these things really well.

 

[Kupu2]

Friday arvos at work are the worst. I literally feel like a wind up toy that has reached the end of its wind. I slur sentences, feel like I'm moving in plasma and avoid eye contact. If it becomes really bad, it broaches meltdown territory.