Nicole Bulsara

Nicole Bulsara ✌🏼Documenting life after escaping Neurodivergent Burnout ✈️ Alt Living for High Masking Autism & ADHD 🧾MAEd, ADHD-RSP

The key isn’t avoiding the dip altogether (we do need to wind down and sleep) but learning how to cushion the landing. T...
08/21/2025

The key isn’t avoiding the dip altogether (we do need to wind down and sleep) but learning how to cushion the landing. That can look like: balancing blood sugar with protein-rich snacks, building in sensory resets, using gentle movement to shift energy, or leaning on targeted supports like

Once you understand the dip, you can support yourself through it instead of getting stuck in it.

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✨🔮Imagine this🔮✨👨🏼‍🎤You’re autistic, holding eye contact lightly because it helps you think, speaking plainly because cl...
08/13/2025

✨🔮Imagine this🔮✨

👨🏼‍🎤You’re autistic, holding eye contact lightly because it helps you think, speaking plainly because clarity feels kind. The other person reads you as cold. You walk away feeling unseen, they walk away confused. That is the double empathy problem (a two-way mismatch in social signals between autistic and non-autistic people, first described by Dr. Damian Milton).

👩🏻‍🏫Here’s the science. Autistic to autistic conversations can pass information just as effectively as non-autistic to non-autistic ones, while accuracy and flow tend to drop mainly in mixed pairs. Autistic partners also report stronger rapport with each other than in mixed pairs, and outside observers can detect that difference in rapport too. First impression studies show that non-autistic observers form less favorable snap judgments of autistic people within seconds, which lowers willingness to engage, and those impressions improve when autism is disclosed and understanding increases. Perspective taking research confirms the mismatch goes both ways (both autistic and non-autistic people can misread each other).

🤝Empathy varies from person to person (autistic or not). Autism does not erase it. What helps is learning each other’s “social language” and agreeing on the basics up front (clear questions, time to process, permission to clarify).

💬👉🏻If this clicked for you, share it with someone who has only ever heard the deficit story.

For neurodivergent folks, that might mean rethinking ambition, refusing hustle culture, and honoring your energy cycles,...
08/11/2025

For neurodivergent folks, that might mean rethinking ambition, refusing hustle culture, and honoring your energy cycles, sensory needs, and joy.

It’s recognizing that the version of success you were taught to chase may have been built for someone else’s brain, values, and nervous system.

It’s letting go of the idea that productivity is the proof of your worth and instead choosing work rhythms that allow you to show up as your full self without running yourself into the ground.

It’s creating space for rest without guilt, allowing your creativity to come in waves, and measuring success not just by deadlines met, but by how you feel at the end of the day.

That isn’t giving up. It’s choosing the kind of life that sustains you, one that leaves room for joy, connection, and the parts of you that exist far beyond your job title.

Who else is tired of feeling like their worth is tied to exhaustion?

Do you ever feel stuck in functional freeze? 🥶🫥💬👇🏻
07/31/2025

Do you ever feel stuck in functional freeze? 🥶🫥💬👇🏻

If you’re trying to exit the burnout loop once and for all, me too! Follow along for Part 2 where I’ll share more neurod...
07/21/2025

If you’re trying to exit the burnout loop once and for all, me too! Follow along for Part 2 where I’ll share more neurodivergent friendly shifts that have been helping me set boundaries and build in real accommodations as I heal from chronic burnout and start my next venture.

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Being on stimulants has been life-changing, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t come with its struggles. I didn’t think...
07/17/2025

Being on stimulants has been life-changing, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t come with its struggles. I didn’t think adding a supplement to my routine would make much of a difference, until I found Stasis 👏🏼✨

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Autistic vs. Neurotypical Burnout 🖤Burnout isn’t the same for everyone.For neurotypical folks, a long weekend might be e...
07/02/2025

Autistic vs. Neurotypical Burnout 🖤

Burnout isn’t the same for everyone.

For neurotypical folks, a long weekend might be enough to recover. But for autistic people, it can take months. It can mean losing skills, withdrawing from daily life, feeling disconnected from yourself, and even sinking into existential despair.

If you’re in burnout right now and searching for answers, I really recommend this workbook by Dr. Megan Anna Neff. It helped me see the invisible energy drains no one ever explained before. Her resources are what led me to seek my own diagnosis, so it’s such a pleasure to now be able to share them with you.

✨ Comment ‘Burnout’ for a link to check out the workbook

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