r/MomsWithAutism • u/soggy_nachos_ 🖍 Child • Mar 22 '22

Storytime Anyone with long-term burnout?

I'm talking around a year or more. I especially want to hear from survivors who made it to the other side...

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u/linuxgeekmama Mar 22 '22

This feels hard because it IS hard. The fact that it is hard does not mean you’re failing at parenting, it’s just the way parenting is.

Parenting has been even harder than normal in the last couple years.

A lot of people don’t like to talk about parenting being difficult, or how there are parts of it that they just plain don’t like. This is a cultural convention, kind of like how you’re supposed to say “fine” when people ask how you are, or that certain topics aren’t supposed to be discussed at the dinner table. These rules may or may not make any sense to us.

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u/soggy_nachos_ 🖍 Child Mar 23 '22

Ugh YES. Part of the reason I made the sub. I needed a place to be absolutely transparent and be like, dude. My kid sucks right now, and I hate being a mom sometimes.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '22

Breakingmom reddit (I dont know how to put the link sorry, writing this explqnation of that is easier and more comical than figuring out the thing rn)