When the Light Flickers: Grieving a Fading Special Interest

On The Existential Uncertainty Of Shifting Passions

There’s a particular ache that comes when a special interest begins to fade. It isn’t the clean sadness of a finished story or the satisfying end of a chapter, it’s something murkier, almost existential. A kind of quiet grief that seeps into the spaces where fascination once lived.

For many Autistic people, special interests aren’t hobbies in the way soc…