Obviously you can't spread knowledge unless people are listening.
Clearly you can't force feed people volumes of right answers, not even if you think they need to hear them. So to be an improvement leader you have to find a way to package the learning into what they want to know. This bait and switch process of information dissemination smacks of the corruptive processes politicians undergo in an attempt to become popular.
I do not want to grow up to be the person that used to care. I do not want to be, like the politician who has become unrecognizable to him/herself or their original cause.
I want to be me, but older.
Unfortunately, to some degree this adjusting away from truth is already happening to me. It's an offshoot of systematized education. As I go to college and attempt to be accepted by my teachers and peers with PhD's I become a pleaser whenever the end of a term begins to loom. I tell myself to just give them the answers they want to hear so that I can move on and gain the needed credibility to be listened to later on when I tell the harsher truth. When I give the answers they may not like. Unfortunately this 'pretending' leaves a resonance of reshaped belief in my head and what I used to understand becomes morphed into something new, and not necessarily better.
I still want to shout about abuse and autism and society's contribution to both but I am busy doing the work of making it better, so there is often no time to complain. This is good, I suppose. Proactive and correct. But it grows only small potatoes in the world of massive change. To increase my impact I must be more mainstream. I consider the concept and find myself back at the question I started with. Do I make a difference?
Bothered by the repetition of the question I move my mind on into the next month of the year ahead.
I continue forward into May and Mother's Day and wonder if my new creation, The In Home Parent Program, will ease struggles or fall on deaf ears. Do haggard mom's tired of being judged by misinformed educators and child protective service workers have enough left in their soul to trust me, another expert? I know they should, but can they? I have made it as inexpensive as possible while still meeting my own obligations. But after all of the target marketing their desperation has attracted, do they have anything left? I can teach them what to do but it will still require work. I know what they need in order to cease the desperation but can I give them what they want? I can give them fun, but maybe not easy!
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