Autism and Grief: Feeling Loss When the Scripts Don't Fit

Grief has a script. There are stages, timelines, expected behaviours, the right way to cry at the right moments. And for many autistic adults, none of it fits.

In this episode, we talk about how autistic people experience grief differently — delayed responses, unexpected triggers, the way loss can arrive weeks later and feel completely disproportionate to people around us. We talk about grieving your pre-diagnosis life, grieving the person you performed for years, and what it means to process loss in your own time, in your own way, without apology.

Read the full article: https://www.heyasd.com/blogs/autism/grief-and-autism