Welcome to The High Functioning Life

Hi and thanks for looking into The High Functioning Life.

My name is Mel and my high functioning autistic daughter calls me Mama. Yup I said Autistic so run now if you thought this blog was about anything other than Autism.

A word to the wise,
 I basically have no real idea what I'm doing here online, technology is not my thing.
This blog is just me sharing my experiences and take on things, helping myself by voicing my thoughts, and sharing my life as the parent to a special kid. My hope is that maybe one day this blog will help my daughter and that she will be able to write posts about her life on the spectrum, but for now its just HFL mama online.

About ME !

Well I'm just your run of the mill crazy Canadian mama. I'm 36 years old, living in Ontario Canada. I'm married (Happily) and have one special little girl, 2 cats and a dog. I've just moved so I'm working on making this house into my home and will probably post about my house  projects here too.
I live by a few sayings.
Have an attitude of gratitude, Don't sweat the small stuff, and I like me, who do you like?

I think they give a pretty good indication of who I am as a person right now.

About My Daughter

Lily aka Tiger is 5 yrs old, she was diagnosed with HFA just before she turned two, at  which point she had stopped talking and was not able to walk more than a couple steps without falling and didn't sleep and screamed and screamed and screamed. There will probably be more than one post written about her history but the good news is Tiger Lily is doing  awesome and has progressed much faster than we dared to dream.


Ok,
That's the welcome post
hope you read some more :)
and I apologize for all my grammatical errors.