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Saying goodbye to a loved one and dealing with Grief in an Aspergers Way

It's the hardest thing to ever have to do in your life. To say goodbye to someone who you love and accept the fact that they are going to die.  But with Aspergers, what is the right way for you to deal emotionally and physically with your grief and safely coming to accept that someone is dying or has died.  There is no right way to do this, everyone grieves in different ways.  Some people calmly accept this fact and process it before moving on past it, others grieve in a destructive manner and some never stop grieving.  Depending on your relationship with the person who is terminally ill or dying in any circumstance can make you feel like you have lost a part of your heart, like it's been ripped from your chest.  Grief is a powerful emotion that changes you as a person and with autism is there any way to really understand the emotions you are feeling let alone describing them to others. There is also the people around you, family and friends who often try a