Yeah I was just giving a workshop for parents of
children on the autism spectrum
and uh uh before I started they warned me some of
the parents are gonna be angry and frustrated
because they're not getting any services not
gonna be angry with me uh service service is up in
Canada are free but there are in big demand so there's
a huge waiting list these parents on the waiting
list and they said one of them tends to be kind
of hard on speakers and so they also said we
don't think she's gonna come
but then I'm up on the stage and they go pink
sweater, pink sweater, pink sweater
So she's here and so I caution the audience you know... please
hold your questions until the break I talk for
two minutes pink sweater arm shoots into the air
and she asked me a question that really is not
relevant to what I'm talking about privately and
blaming her for being rude and selfish but
publicly I answer a question patiently
that happen twice more I still answer her question
patiently privately and blame her for being rude
and selfish but the fourth time it happens that's
it and that's it is it and so I was sarcastic and
dismissive she left at the break
I just didn't know or circumstances I found out
about later she was a single mother with two
small children you know right there's a sacred
being and these two children were profoundly delayed...
she's getting no services the only shot she's got is to
come to these workshops trying get some down
Speaker
she's willing to look bad in front of hundreds of
people just to get a little something for her
kids
that's not selfish... that's selfless
I just didn't see it I got caught up in that old
way of thinking that our way of thinking corrects for
I didn't take into account  her circumstances I
just went right after her character and I
consider that a serious failure on my part I wish
I had to do over
Our way of thinking
transforms all that into something quite a bit
more powerful  and humane it's just that there's
only thousands of us
and there are billions of people that think that
old way this way that we think it's only been
around about a hundred years that old ways has
been around for thousands of years
so we have a mission and that mission is to get
this new way of thinking out to the world
You're fluent.. I appreciate it. yeah you're easy to
work with yeah you bet
