Exciting new research led by Mackenzie Bougoure examining autistic burnout and how we can assess it in adults using the AASPIRE Autistic Burnout Measure!
Autistic people have described autistic burnout as an intense experience of physical, emotional, mental, and social exhaustion impacting their ability to complete everyday tasks and contributing to poorer well-being. This research takes us another step closer to better identifying those in need of support and allows for more research to work out how to help.
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A big personal milestone for me as this is the first paper I helped supervise on!
Measuring autistic burnout: A psychometric validation of the AASPIRE Autistic Burnout Measure in autistic adults - Mackenzie Bougoure, Sici Zhuang, Jack D Brett, Murray T Maybery, Michael C English, Diana Weiting Tan, Iliana Magiati, 2026
Autistic burnout is characterised by extreme exhaustion, loss of functioning, and reduced tolerance to stimulus, resulting from the cumulative stress associated...
Early research shows that autistic burnout could be very harmful and can have negative consequences for the mental health and wellbeing of autistic people. Outside the autistic community, most people...
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