As I grow, so will they...
Things I should have thought about as my presence grows, but did not.
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This media campaign for “A Day with No Words” is picking up steam.
Hard.
And fast.
I don’t even know what to think, this last month is moving by so quickly.
I knew from the beginning of my sharing online that I had a specific picture in my head with how I wanted my family involved. And that was minimal as hell. I wanted to share of our challenges but no mention them at all.
For myself, I learned that this was not only sustainable, it wasn’t conducive to what I was trying to get my audience to feel what it was I was talking about, especially not in the way that I felt it would inspire them to act.
By “not sustainable” I meant, how difficult is it to talk about an issue that doesn’t impact you directly but it does impact you, but you have to speak about it as if the matter is foreign to you in that it doesn’t tie back to you or your loved ones, but also make sure that you are close enough to the issue so that people take you seriously and know that you actually know a bit about the matter you’re drawing their attention to?
It’s difficult.
I distanced myself from my diagnosis itself for many years, and in many ways I still do (and still have to), I couldn’t keep distancing myself from the realities of our lives. So, I set out to share about my family in a way that they could be proud of and so would I. I came up with a bunch of rules for how I share my family on social media. And you can find out more about that process here:
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