Higher Education and Multiplicity

[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to hear anyone else in our system for quite some time. Generally, our communication with eachother is not great, but I do know that others in my group have been coming out less and less. I can't seem to reach our inner world, either.

Part of it, I think, is that some things have happened that have left us feeling exposed and unsafe. That, I can understand, although it grieves me. The other part very much befuddles me. I'm getting ready to go back to school to get my Masters degree, and I wonder if I'M blocking everyone from coming out. Most people in our system are teenagers, and they way they act can diverge wildly, as do their interests. There is one person in my group (Hannie) who desperately wants us to have a respectable job, and I know she'll be cooperative and helpful. Everyone else is somewhat too self absorbed to care about a common goal.

I don't want to be tyranical or repress everyone, but on the other hand, it is very, very important that we get this degree, get a real job, and stop being dependent on SSI and services. (we get developmental services..my official diagnosis is Autism.) We MUST pull together on this one, and the hard truth is that if someone wants to come out and be all teenage and flaky when we need to go to class or study, that just can't happen.

Can anyone who is getting a degree please tell me how you manage system dynamics when doing so? Is everyone in your group pulling together and helping, or are there people who don't want to get involved, who have to stay inside until all studying is done?

Comments

[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked! Then again, why would that suprise me..most people aren't very observant or imaginative. With my southern accent, at least I can say, 'my (must be careful not to say "our") mother is from North Carolina. Of course, we don't mention that the bitch only moved down there after we grew up, and we've only been down there like, two times.. -hannie

[idianshire.livejournal.com]

I think she gets away with it because she grew up in London, so the irish and cockney accents people just put down to that, although the majoirty of the time those accents aren't around. Still I think most people are more likely to use any explanation other than multiplicity, from my expereince multiplicity is hardly even in people's awareness.