We now have President-Elect Barack Obama, and the two years of campaigning, all the incessant political ads, tens of millions of votes, the raw emotions of this day, and – regardless of how you feel about the outcome – the history we have now witnessed have quickly turned into just preamble. That’s about how long historic moments last in a country where things are a mess. Shortly, our TVs will return to idiotic erectile dysfunction commercials (which frighteningly I was starting to miss…) and we’ll get back to that sinking feeling of our economy being in the toilet (if we haven’t already) and all the problems the world faces.
He will hear from untold numbers of people representing countless causes. And with respect to autism and parenting and all the issues we face, we better get our crap together and commit ourselves to making sure our children are well-served as part of all of the changes to come. We know the challenges we and our children face everyday. It’s time to get to doing something about it.
For most of my 20s, I was pretty committed to the whole idea of single-handedly changing the world by eliminating poverty, disease, and war, and discovering cold fusion and the perfect cup of coffee during my lunch hour. I was somewhere between an overachiever and a mentally ill person with a savior complex, but at least my heart was in the right place. I crusaded for causes and put myself into voluntary poverty to give much of that period of my life to efforts I believed in. I dreamed really big; I was the poster child for people who wear their hearts on their sleeves.
The details of my life have changed dramatically since then, but though it may now burn with a different color and brightness than in those days, that fire is now like a focused laser. And God help anyone who stands in the way of our work on behalf of the three-year-old bundle of sunshine that fills our lives up to bursting everyday.
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I focused the links only on their web sites because 1) so many public political statements spin more than our kids do, and 2) I’m going to assume that their web site statements are considered the official positions of their respective candidates.
