i would offer to play with you but i am painfully bad

granted that time in my life was exhausting & required me to live well above my means/capabilities as an autistic person until i was a desolate shell of myself, but having of a social life for the first time, pretending to be a functioning human, and feeling “normal” for once was kinda fun!!

autistic burnout genuinely stole four years of my life from me and dug me into a hole so deep that even though i’d consider myself “in recovery” from said burnout, i have no idea how to entirely get myself out of this rut because i cannot fully process and mourn the life that i lost.