- Saturday: Event in town, with small kids, socializing
- Sunday: Teambuilding event
- Monday: Work strategy meeting
- Tuesday: Held a presentation and socialized
- Wednesday: Work strategy meeting
- Thursday: Course w/group sessions, parents over for dinner
- Friday: Work event, work event
- Saturday: Museum trip, family visit
Throughout the week, slow buildup of joint pain, feverish feeling, lack of appetite, swollen throat, buzzing head, torpor, lack of focus. Today I am just broken.
These are all (for me) normal physical reactions to overextending myself socially or spending time in sensory intense environments for any amount of time. They are also symptons I would get if I caught the head cold that is going around.
It feels extremely silly that I have literally zero idea if I have a cold or not.
Anyway, treatment is same either way: Take it easy for a while. Mostly wanted to share my frustrating confusion and maybe hear if others have similar experiences and how they manage. :)
Lol. Going through a similar thing. Socialising too much can make me run down too. It sounds like youre also a bit unwell though, which is something that is more likely to happen when youre over extending.
Nights have just started getting longer here and days colder, so im feeling down which could be the light, and a little sick which could be the cold, but I also have to keep reminding myself I am on this training course on wednesdays which isnt training per se but a group of 35 of us having structured discussions about topics in our fields for 8 hours under the guidance of a ‘coach’, who really teaches us nothing at all - we are teaching each other which is a trend in my field at the moment and it irks the hell out of me. Participation is expected and I need to keep imagining what optimistic dribble my sunny, positive boss would say in this situation and then say it myself in order to look like im engaging and not give myself away as nuerodivergent and a bit cynical 😆
Its good youre aware of it possibly being due to your autism, make sure you rest up. My course is until february, its only one day a week but its right in the middle of the week and it really leaves me feeling shit, exhausted and a bit stressed, so im not punishing myself for feeling like I need to withdraw from other social activities for a little while to recover.