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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This feels pretty typical to me, but there is no “normal”. I remember when I was 14 and my aunt died—I cried nonstop for a week, couldn’t go to school, and still felt pretty normal after—but losing an aunt is different from losing a parent.[/quote]
Was Your aunt your caretaker or was it a gruesome or sudden tragic death?

Often children and teens don’t know how to grieve or process big emotions so they copy movies or what they then they should be doing- bawling, crying, heaving, suffering, lying around, not functioning. 
There is also peer pressure to show sadness, at that age. My high school class lost a girl to cancer- she showed up in 9th grade and died in 10th grade. The entire school was at the funeral and kids who didn’t even know her from her sports or honor classes were loudly crying the whole time. Were they truly very sad? Did they want to appear very sad to be socially acceptable? Were they projecting doomsday on themselves? Did they have other connections or deaths recently and triggered? Unlikely. Just peer pressure. [/quote]

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