
03/09/2025
"The loss of potential, of an unlived life, is just such an ambiguous loss. It doesn’t have a funeral. It has no rituals. But it shapes us deeply."💯
Really lovely article about something that affects so many, neurodivergent or not.
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2025/08/grieving-the-unlived-life-honoring-the-distance-between-what-was-what-might-have-been-lav-kelley/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAMksUJjbGNrAySw4GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeJw12fk9neg70GR_-jJ-PP09gFzMECPDWIWeYiNj4mqLQjkSnVXbL5Xrv5WU_aem_8PTHdzZ8i-jdO4l5Vi3dkg
There’s a particular kind of grief that often goes unnamed. It’s not the grief of losing someone we love or even the grief that accompanies a devastating diagnosis.