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Em Rusciano has revealed that she’s been left in ‘autistic burnout’ after a few busy days. 

The TV and radio host shared a series of Instagram Stories posts that showed her posing up a storm at a red carpet event for the musical & Juliet in , as well as giving an talk on stage with Accenture AUS & NZ. 

The mother of three, 43, explained in a tearful video that she was unable to eat or sleep, and was frequently crying due to autistic burnout after being around too many people at the social outings.  

Autistic burnout which refers exhaustion, loss of function, and reduced tolerance to stimulus as a result of autism. 

‘I am in total sesnosry burnout right now.This is what happens to me. I had a few big days where I have been people-ing, and I crash’ she said in the clip shared on Friday. 

‘It’s like all my nerve endings are on the outside of my skin, I can’t sleep, I cry a lot, everything is bright and loud, I cant figure out what to eat’ she went on. 

‘I need to have weighted things on my legs.This is the stuff that I have always gone through but thought it was normal, and I found out it was autistic burnout.’

She added: ‘Today I have to just not do anything, basically, and it’s not because I am not a s**t person, I am an autistic person.’

Em then admitted she ‘cringes’ when discussing her autism, because ‘people think she’s faking it anyway’ after she was wrongly accused of inventing her diagnosis for attention. 

‘Then you go through the whole cringe cycle, (thinking) that sounds a bit pathetic and p**s weak and no one will believe anyway’ she said. 

‘Even saying “autism” or “I’m autistic”, I feel like this surge of panic, like I am gaslighting myself. 

‘But I have to keep talking about it, because it normalises it for me.It does feel piss weak, but I feel like I am in a well, and I didn’t know everyone doesn’t get like this.

It comes after Rusciano fired bac.

‘I don’t want to go to the concert on Friday night, I really don’t,’ she wept.

Ever since coming out as having ADHD in 2021, Rusciano has been questioned numerous times by trolls who say she may be doing it as part of a ‘trend’.

‘When I told one particular friend I had ADHD, he responded with, “Oh, God, why does everyone I know suddenly have that?”‘ she said last year. 

She continued, mocking her friend’s voice: ‘”It’s all over Insta and TikTok, I’m so sick of it.” Are you mate?  

‘You know what, yeah, there has been an uptick in late diagnosis of ADHD in women and the AFAB [assigned female at birth] community over the last couple of years.

‘So much, in fact, that many people have referred to it as a fad to my face.’

A few months earlier, she expressed her frustration with ‘neurotypical people’ doubting her conditions in a video posted to Instagram.

Without taking a breath, she ranted about having to ‘over-explain and justify’ her symptoms to people who can never understand what she has been through.

She also took aim at sceptics who claim she is ‘making it up’ or believe she is only saying she has ADHD and autism ‘for attention’. 

Rusciano was formally diagnosed with autism in November, but had already self-diagnosed herself with it months earlier.

Last month, she entered in a war of words with fellow comedian and podcaster Meshel Laurie, after Laurie branded her a ‘c**t’ in a shocking tirade.

Laurie, 49, accused Rusciano of ‘leaping on the bandwagon’ for clout, and has refused to back down despite being called out by thousands on social media.

Laurie targeted the Emsolation host after she claimed she may need to use a ‘sensory room’ when she attends the Harry Styles concert at Marvel Stadium due to her newly diagnosed autism.

The sensory room contains noise-cancelling headphones, weighted blankets, and fidget tools so autistic people or those suffering from severe sensory issues have a safe space to go to.

In a since-deleted Instagram post, Laurie wrote: ‘She blocked me after the last time I called her out, but could Em Rusciano please list the concerts she’s had to leave early, or not attend, because they didn’t provide a sensory inclusion room?’

She then went to her own comments section to continue her rant, cussing Rusciano out and falsely accusing her of faking her autism to ‘excuse’ her past poor behaviour in the radio industry.

‘I have a close family member on the spectrum and I don’t appreciate people leaping on the bandwagon for clout and to excuse the appalling behaviour that’s caused their previous poor career outcomes,’ she said.

‘A c**t is just a c**t and will always be a c**t.Many beautiful people are on the autism spectrum and they should never be confused with the kind of people who try to claim the diagnosis retroactively to explain their poor behaviour.’

Laurie then took to Facebook to tell her fans she was ‘tired’ of celebrities making ‘attention-seeking’ posts about having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

‘As the exhausted mother of an ASD child I stand by what I said about certain adults well known for attention seeking and their recent posts about their diagnoses,’ she wrote.

‘Next time you hear a grown celebrity say they’re on the spectrum please whisper in your mind, “F**k you, you successful motherf**ker. Obviously you aren’t very far along the spectrum.”‘

‘Our education system only recognised this s**t and learned to deal with it 10 years ago.You’re lying,’ she added.

Rusciano responded to the rant on several different platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and her podcast. 

‘I’m extremely sensitive to light and sound and textures.Sensory overload and burnout happen to me five or six times a week, that’s why when I saw that Marvel Stadium had a sensory room, I was excited,’ she explained on Facebook.

‘These are only a couple of examples of how my ASD shows up, but I shouldn’t have to explain myself.Yet this week I’ve found myself having to endure people debating if I’m autistic enough or even at all. How is that okay?’

Rusciano shot to fame on Australian Idol in 2004, and went on to have a successful career in commercial radio.

She now hosts her own hit podcast Emsolation, which is a Spotify exclusive, and still tours as a comedian and musician.

Rusciano reflected on her disastrous career in commercial radio while discussing her ADHD diagnosis at the National Press Club in August.

In an emotional speech to the Canberra-based association, she said working in breakfast radio brought out the ‘worst’ of her then-undiagnosed ADHD.

‘I know now that a person with rejection sensitivity dysphoria, low self-esteem, time blindness, someone who is very blunt, has a complete inability to regulate her emotions, and is hypersensitive to external stimuli should be nowhere near the breakfast radio environment,’ she said.

‘It brought out the very worst of my undiagnosed ADHD symptoms.It brought out the worst in me as a human,’ she added.

The media personality said the early hours in breakfast radio caused sleep issues, which only made her symptoms worse.

‘I was getting up at 4am each day, having not fallen asleep until at least midnight,’ she admitted.

‘Chronic and accumulative sleep deprivation makes ADHD symptoms much worse.’

Rusciano also revealed she was diagnosed with postnatal depression following the birth of her daughter Odette in 2007.

Odette, now 14, has since been diagnosed with ADHD too, while Rusciano’s son Elio, four, is autistic.

Rusciano also said her stint on breakfast radio left her with ‘some severe PTSD’.

The performer got her start in radio back in 2005 and later hosted her own weekly show on the Hit Network.

In 2017, she moved to 2Day FM’s breakfast slot, but left after just one year following underwhelming ratings and reports of staff quitting to avoid working with her.

‘I was constantly told I was angry, I needed to be nicer to people, I needed to smile more and my tone was policed,’ she previously said.

‘I was under this microscope the whole time.Meetings would be on a screen and if I didn’t smile the whole time, there would be three emails about what’s going on with Em.’

Rusciano claimed it was an ‘exhausting’ time made worse by having a miscarriage and being told the format of her show would be changing.

She also alleged her colleagues ‘were leaking bulls**t stories about me’ to the press, and felt there was an overall ‘really toxic work environment’ at the Southern Cross Austereo-owned station.

For her part, Rusciano acknowledged her own behaviour at 2Day FM ‘wasn’t great’, but said no one around her was willing to ‘cut me any slack’.

‘I’m still dealing with it all but I feel like I understand it a bit better,’ she concluded.

Before her departure, multiple reports alleged employees had left 2Day FM and others were looking for new jobs due to Rusciano’s ‘attitude’.

‘Things are at breaking point, people just cannot work with her energy.There have been… casualties at the hands of Em Rusciano,’ a source said at the time.

‘The audio producer is now working on another show, the publicist is refusing to work with her, and one of the producers has told the company that they are looking for other work.’ 

Speaking to Wil Anderson’s Wilosophy podcast in April 2020, Rusciano acknowledged many of her peers in the media and entertainment industry ‘violently hate’ her and ‘refuse to work with’ her.

Rusciano confessed that when she’s confronted with stressful situations, she has a tendency to ‘go into fight mode’.

‘Fists are up, and you’re either get in or get out of the way, and my behaviour was pretty appalling in radio,’ she explained.

‘Every time I’ve stepped into radio, my behaviour deteriorates and it’s appalling, and I know that, and that’s why I will never step back into radio, because I hate the person I become.

‘I think a lot of it is my fault, but I also know that that’s not me.Radio Em is not who I am… I’m actually a pretty kind person and a pretty reasonable person most of the time.’