Sibling Leadership Network member, Shruti Tekwani, discusses the types grief and loss that we experience as siblings in this informative piece in Impact.
“To a sibling of a person with an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), grief can be a common emotion that is navigated multiple times and through many layers during the relationship with their brother or sister. It may first happen when they realize that their sibling relationship will not be a typical one, when they realize that their role in their sibling’s life may not be how they first imagined. It then may go on to grieving the life they might have desired for their sibling. Sometimes it takes a while before the feeling can be identified, and that begins the process of disenfranchised grief.” READ MORE
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