For those of you not following my blog religiously (you should, I’m a minister, yo), Enigma, my 9-year old son, has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism that expresses itself with awkward social behaviors, OCD, sensory issues and other things that make them (to quote every OT we’ve ever seen) “quirky.” Enigma has been going [...]
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Autism Angst
July 13th, 2010 
Melia 
Posted in Daily Ramblings 
Tags: autism, not a mommy blogger, summer 2010, the enigma, today in melialand 
6 Comments »Zombie Zucchini Bread!!
March 11th, 2010 Melia 
The moral of the story is that zombies bring people together in strange ways, even if their body parts eventually fall off.
Posted in Daily Ramblings Tags: autism, cooking, Enigma, foodie, not a mommy blogger, zombies 17 Comments »Guess Where I Am!
August 21st, 2009 Melia I am blogging from outside Enigma’s OT appt. 8am on Friday. I will bitch about that later, I promise. He is doing well, but I wonder if the lack of structure of the summer is causing him to display more “stimming” behaviors, or maybe with him in school, I have just not seen him like [...]
Visiting Grandma – longest blog ever.
July 31st, 2009 Melia Let me preface this by saying that I may come back to this for more details at some other point. I left my notebook in the car and I’m damn tired. Upon arriving at my grandmother’s house, she already had my martini ingredients out. She’s a wonderful lady. I only ate two jars of olives [...]
April is Autism Awareness Month!
April 2nd, 2009 Melia My youngest son was diagnosed with Autism in 2004, and again in Fall of 2008. In between those diagnoses, he was considered developmentally delayed or “on the spectrum.” In short, my son is autistic, he is on the autism spectrum in a little place they like to call Asperger’s. At least, that’s what its being [...]
