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When well-meaning advice misses the deeper loss

I'm an artist going blind and everyone keeps suggesting I switch to sculpture or music, but they don't understand that seeing color is what made me feel alive.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Others' attempts to problem-solve our grief often overlook that what we're mourning isn't just function but a particular way of being in the world that can't be simply replaced.

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