I'm struggling to understand why it happened, and what exactly happened.
I used to be able to go to Jamborees, dance clubs, and so on and so forth.
Why did having to socialize with 30 people suddenly make me crash?
I've put it into the category of "involuntary unmasking" but I'm not sure that's what it is.
I'm also not sure what the crash that I experience should be called. It is not a burnout because it wasn't long enough. I don't think it was a meltdown. I thought about a shutdown, but I don't see lack of energy as a symptom.
I'm not convinced that this is one aspect of my autism. In some circumstances, I may get overwhelmed by socialization and crash.
If someone had asked me about this at the time of my self-diagnosis, I would have said that it does not happen to me.