Whooter,
Why do people resent you on this website?
Joel
Hi Joel, I am not sure I could answer that very easily. I will ramble off some thoughts:
I challenge peoples conclusions and the don’t like it. I ask for facts and they interpret it as I am calling them a liar. I take the unpopular point of view in the argument sometimes to play "devils advocate". I ask for equal treatment for survivors and program parents. I point out the successes that programs have produced and as a result am called a shill for the industry. If a child commits suicide many here will use the childs death as propaganda aginst a program (drawing their family into it) even though there is no evidence of the cause of the person taking their life and I challenge that. Many may feel cheated that my daughter benefitted from her stay in a program where they did not. I see myself as adding balance to a very biased and one-sided forum. I believe in looking at study results coming out of the industry where many here do not want to discuss facts and instead would rather put more energy into discrediting them then reading them and getting out what they can. I am received by being called a liar, troll, industry shill, EdCon, Aspen employee, John Reuben, Peter Forne, Alan Newman, Dirk Grey, Nazi……… But I am just a program parent.
The People who are basically out to discredit me, hide in the shadows because I have exposed them to be liars and they just want me to go away so they can come back up to the surface and continue their anti-program propaganda without accountability for their words.
People who are opened minded and dont mind a balanced and honest debate dont seem to have a problem with me.