I used to plan on the over-stimulation making me miserable. I would plan to lay low the day before and after the high stress day. It was not uncommon to need a week of laying low to get back to 'my' normal.

If you were injured and stuck in a wheelchair, would you expect to be able to dance? You would hopefully wait until your body healed before stressing it.

Just because we look normal does not mean we can do what normal people do.