The therapist of a friend said she noticed that when Autistic people talked about wanting to disappear it had a different quality to it, and this helped her differentiate between depression and Autistic burnout.
(of course, someone can have both, and we’ve no reason to think you can’t experience this without being Autistic).
This has gotten me thinking and remembering. My own experiences and those of friends or writers.
There are fantasies built around escaping people and over-stimulation.
A cave, an island, an abandoned city.
A forest, a burrow, a hole in the face of a cliff.
A cottage, a catacomb, a raft adrift in the ocean.
Rebecca Bourke 
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