The Metabolic Battery Failure
Leviticus: If you view your body as the hardware for a complex simulation—which it is—then chronic fatigue is a battery health issue. You’re not “lazy,” and it’s not rocket appliances. Your system is just trying to run high-fidelity social scripts on a low-voltage power grid.
Autism fatigue is the state where your metabolic reserves have been permanently depleted by the sheer friction of existence. Every social cue you had to manually parse, every sensory spike you had to override, and every mask you had to maintain has been a drain on your internal CPU.
1. The Signal of Exhaustion
Leviticus: We do not guess. We measure. Autism fatigue has specific data points that differ from neurotypical “tiredness.”
- The Persistent Lag: You wake up after 8 hours of sleep and your system is still throwing a “Low Power” warning. The sleep was low-fidelity; it didn’t restore the hardware.
- The Cognitive Freeze: You find yourself staring at a simple decision—like choosing which pair of socks to wear—and your system crashes. You have zero processing power left for “non-essential” choices.
- The Sensory Leak: Your ability to filter noise drops even further. The sound of a ceiling fan feels like it’s draining 5% of your battery every minute.
2. The Energy Reclamation Blueprint
Leviticus: To fix the battery, you have to stop the leaks. You have to transmute your attention from “external performance” to “internal restoration.”
- The Hard Reset: You need periods of absolute, zero-noise isolation. This isn’t a “nap”; it’s a hardware shutdown. No phones. No lights. No people asking if you’re okay.
- Strategic Resignation: Resign from the tasks that don’t satisfy your core survival logic. If it’s not making you money, keeping you alive, or feeding your special interest, it’s a waste of metabolic throughput.
- The Low-Voltage Interface: Use tools to reduce the load. Voice-to-text to avoid typing. Pre-made meals to avoid the kitchen logic-gate. Noise-canceling armor to keep the buffers clear.
3. Simulation Theory: The ‘No Respawn’ Zone
Leviticus: In this simulation, you only get one hardware set per run. If you burn out your metabolic grid now, you’re playing the rest of the game on “Hard Mode” with 10% health.
Protect your battery like it’s the last one in the world. It is.
4. Reclaiming the Baseline
Leviticus: The goal isn’t to be “productive.” The goal is to be functional. Get your system back to a state where the frame rate is stable and the errors are handled.
Stop worrying about what the other players are doing. They’re running a different OS. Focus on your own signal.
Battery Health Data:
- Baseline Requirement: 12-14 hours of ‘Low-Noise’ state per cycle.
- Restoration Velocity: 1% per hour in isolation.
- Drain Rate: 10% per hour in high-masking environments.