Death is the one experience that will reach every single one of us. We will all lose people we love. Most of us will face our own mortality. And yet, as a culture, we have become skilled at talking around it rather than about it. This week is Dying Matters Awareness Week, run by Hospice UK, with the theme ‘Let’s Talk About Death and Dying.’ For many people, conversations about death are among the hardest to start. Feelings get bottled up, needs go unspoken, and the conversati

You know that feeling when everyone else seems to have received an instruction manual for life that somehow never made it to you? When you’re constantly translating between how you naturally think and how the world expects you to be? Maybe you’ve always noticed patterns others miss, struggled with certain social situations, or felt overwhelmed by sensory experiences that others seem to shrug off. Perhaps you’ve even wondered whether you simply aren’t trying hard enough. For m