How many of the people working in the "system" (special ed, regional center, legal/advocate) appear so hard and bitter and angry and jaded.

How some of the people who are supposed to be working with you or for you, are as hard on you as the people who are putting up barriers for your kid to succeed.

How difficult it is to trust anybody because you wonder what their agenda truly is.

I look at some of these folks and I think to myself, "I do not want to end up looking and sounding like that. It is too big of a price to pay. Why isn't there another way?"