Mary

My blogs

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Location United States
Introduction From 2005 to 2018, I wrote a blog called Mom-Not Otherwise Specified. The blog title was a play on my son's then-diagnosis, which was Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified, or PDD-NOS, an autism spectrum diagnosis that is no longer used.

The blog was about parenting and autism and my son, who was five when I started writing. It was popular, and a few posts went viral, but the older my son got, the less appropriate those old posts felt.

He’s twenty-two now, and his life is his own. The old blog is hidden. But my life is my own, too, so after a few years’ hiatus, I’m back to try to write my way through to a little bit of clarity.

On that, I make no promises.

Email me at momnos at gmail dot com.