My best friend and I have been each other's neurodivergent support system for years but they just got diagnosed with something additional and I'm realizing I don't know how to be helpful anymore and they're not telling me what they need. We used to just get each other automatically and now there's this careful politeness that feels awful.
More people experience this than they realize.
A relationship built on intuitive understanding must learn explicit communication when the familiar patterns of support no longer fit.
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