Long story short – I wrote something too long for a Facebook post.

The long version

When my beloved took his own life in March 2023, I went looking for resources, particularly groups and pages on my usual social media platform, for neurodivergents experiencing grief, to help with the grieving process. Given that grief and grieving are all tied up with our nervous systems, given that the nervous systems of neurodivergents do not function in accordance with societal expectations, and given that any resources out there for grieving people were likely to be geared toward neurotypicals, it seemed logical to look for neurodivergent-specific resources of the kind I prefer to engage with. I didn’t find much.

Following in the footsteps of many rights-based movements and grassroots community support initiatives, I decided to start with what I had and build from there. I have my own experience, my relent curiosity and drive to learn, and multiple networks focused on relevant topics I could plug into and start engaging with on my topics of choice.

I created a Facebook page. Neurodivergent grief.

My page is still very, very new, but already I find I need something more. Space. When I get introspective, I can write and write and write. And I wrote something that I feel is just too long to be a Facebook post. So, time to start a blog, like many before me whom I follow on social media.

We’ll see where it goes. Now, to get that too-long post up as a blog entry. Post. Whatever.