What Your Body Knows Before Your Mind Does: On Neurodivergent Grief

Grief is supposed to be recognisable. But what happens when it moves through a different nervous system?

In this essay I reflect on the emerging research around neurodivergent grief, written not from expertise but from curiosity and from what I notice in the counselling room. On alexithymia and the body that knows before the mind does. On the two griefs many autistic people carry after a death. On the executive function exam that bereavement brings. And on why grief that does not look like grief still deserves space.

This essay continues over on Grief in Translation, my Substack publication for reflective writing on grief, loss, and the human experience.

You can read the full piece here: substack.com/@griefintranslation