Navigating Grief & Loss as an Autistic Person (Part 2) #asd #autism

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[fuzzypickle]

Painting was a huge outlet for processing trauma for me

[ArtsyMegz_On_Etsy]

Thinking about the one year when I had to attend 4 Christmas dinners in a row, one day right after the other, and trying to keep myself from having a meltdown in front of everybody. Luckily, that didn't happen until my drive home. I accidentally took the wrong road to get back home, and that, apparently, was the last straw. I started screaming my head off, yelling at God, bawling, and asking why everything has to be so much, all the time! When trying to explain it to a neurotypical person, trying to process frequent changes is like if something terrible or extremely stressful happened to you, and then having to go to work 10 minutes having it happen. How much time did you have to be able to process all of that before having to step into the workplace and pretend that everything is okay? I have been blessed enough to be able to slow down most parts of my life, and it has helped so much with my stress levels (my OCD went down about 75%). I still experience meltdowns from time to time though. Those times when you feel like people are pressuring you to do things, when you would rather do it on your time, not theirs. That gives me great anxiety, because it feels like I am going to upset people if I don't do things when they want me to do them. Or, they won't think that I care about them or something (which just causes me to feel guilty, for not being who they want me to be)

[Autistic_Artist]

It’s interesting as this is exactly what I am going through as my mom passed a year ago and I finally am going through our belongings and memories. Turning her treasures into art has been part of my process

[DivineLightPaladin]

The special interests one really helped me, I lived through my mom's passing by listening to the radio on GTA, driving around, roleplaying with friends about a character going through a loss and writing stories in that universe.

[ronoldcross]

Addressed, as it should, to autistics but still valid for everyone. Good awareness for "normies".

[SarahWells]

I tried to continue my routine(working out, etc) after my dad died and I couldn’t.I literally felt like I was dreaming and disconnected to reality(worse than usual).I had to stop my routine for over a week just to process and it was hard to even meditate which helps me process things.I have never dealt with anything like this in my life.I am really worried now about how I’m going to cope with my mom’s passing.She is my best friend and safe person.Nothing I did helped with my dad, and I loved him greatly but me and my mom are closer, so I’m really concerned..

[hannahb]

I love this! I just discovered your channel and it is so great <3

[whitewolfcreations]

I think I do this? I would tell my sis that I have no coping mechanism. What does it mean if you know you wouldn't feel grief if a loved one passed away?