Vince and Vanessa race through a discussion of Autistic Burnout by going through a paper that describes it and its causes. Masking is a big contributor so they also talk about Devon Price’s book Unmasking for Life. They open with describing implicit bias.

Show Notes

UK Mental Health Care

Iacobucci G. Over 17 000 serious incidents reported in mental healthcare last year BMJ 2023; 383 :p2348 doi:10.1136/bmj.p2348

Keep Our NHS Public

Privatisation Appendix: Mental health clinical services

Implicit Bias and The Double Empathy Problem

Kilgallon E, Botha M, Dwyer P, et al. What the Double Empathy Problem Is (and Is Not). Autism in Adulthood. 2026;0(0). doi:10.1177/25739581261456653

Heasman B and Gillespie A (2019) Participants Over-Estimate How Helpful They Are in a Two-Player Game Scenario Toward an Artificial Confederate That Discloses a Diagnosis of Autism. Front. Psychol. 10:1349. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01349

Autistic Burnout

Raymaker DM, Teo AR, Steckler NA, Lentz B, Scharer M, Delos Santos A, Kapp SK, Hunter M, Joyce A, Nicolaidis C. “Having All of Your Internal Resources Exhausted Beyond Measure and Being Left with No Clean-Up Crew”: Defining Autistic Burnout. Autism Adulthood. 2020 Jun 1;2(2):132-143. doi: 10.1089/aut.2019.0079. Epub 2020 Jun 10. PMID: 32851204; PMCID: PMC7313636.

Price, Devon. (2024) You Might Not Recover from Burnout. Ever.

Unmasking

Price, Devon. (2025) Unmasking For Life

Workplace Accommodation

Toney Lieu, Sara Lacarte, Stephen Gentles, and the Summer 2022 Policy Development Working Group. (2022) Promoting Workplace Inclusivity. Autism Alliance of Canada.

Toney Lieu, Sara Lacarte, Stephen Gentles, and the Summer 2022 Policy Development Working Group. (2022) An Accommodations Checklist for Autistic Employees. Autism Alliance of Canada.

Supporting Autism & Neurodivergence in the Workplace: What Employers Want to Know About Accommodations

Researchers and Organizations

AASPIRE

Autistic Self Advocacy Network

Dora M Raymaker
Hoshi and the Red City Circuit

Alan Teo
(ResearchGate)

Nicole A. Steckler

Brandy Lentz

Mirah Scharer
(ResearchGate)

Austin Delos Santos

Steven K. Kapp
(ResearchGate)

Morrigan Hunter

Andee Joyce
(Video Series)

Christina Nicolaidis