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While the disclaimer at the top isn't wrong exactly, a strictly biomedical approach to this is not called for. We should be drawing on non-medical reliable sources for this kind of thing, where it's clear that scientific research is lagging well behind extensive personal accounts.
There is an analogy to be drawn with the experiences of other minority groups, and how we go about incorporating them into an encyclopedic work like this. Oolong ( talk) 19:20, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
I noticed that some big changes happened yesterday ( diff). The article has been completely restructured and heavily cites Raymaker et al 2020 as the primary and often only source for the majority of the text, essentially reading like a summary of Raymaker and immediate colleagues' theories. WP:MEDRS concerns have already been raised above; the current version now cites even fewer academic articles and more blogs/webpages. On a technical note, all in-line references using citation templates were removed as well. This makes it harder for citations to be accessed and maintained.
The "Ultimate Explanation" subsection is a particularly egregious example of original research/synthesis. I have never encountered a reliable biomedical research article or review that provides a well-evidenced evolutionary explanation connecting autistic burnout and heightened attention or hyperarousal. If someone can point me to a reliable source, I'd love to read it. As it stands, that section is completely invented by the editor.
@ ShuyueZeng, I appreciate your bold edits. I think autistic burnout is an important topic that we both want to help communicate to the world. However, I have significant concerns with the way the article now stands. It reads more like an original essay, not an encyclopedic article that describes a consensus among autism researchers. I am going to start removing material from the article later today unless you or others who watch this page have comments to the contrary. Aeffenberger ( talk) 20:10, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Is there a clear delineation between autistic Burnout and autistic catatonia? Do they differ in some fundamental way? Or is autistic catatonia a more severe form of autistic Burnout? Or is it that high-functioning autism -> Burnout, and low-functioning autism -> catatonia? Or is Burnout used when there is a clear external cause (even when catatonic symptoms are present), while catatonia is favored when no obvious external trigger is found, or the patient can't communicate it when one is present? Or is Burnout a breakdown without identifiable catatonia symptoms (which means that catatonia has to be ruled out first)?
Hmm... probably we aren't advanced enough yet to answer all this. I personally would see the last definition as the most useful, meaning catatonia comes first, because it has more narrow and objective criteria. Similarly, things like acute depression and PTSD would also have to be ruled out. If autistic Burnout was to be made a mental health diagnosis.
Anyone knowing scientific sources dealing with both terms (autistic burnout and autistic catatonia) so far? I haven't seen any reliable source comparing both as of now. But I will probably continue my search. 2003:E7:7733:2075:E98F:CA49:E349:3258 ( talk) 00:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)