Say What You Want About Me—But Be Legitimate About It

There appears to be a growing fascination among certain people with the way I speak, particularly my grammar during unscripted conversations—which is not even that bad, LOL. Some people just want to be dramatic, and I’m not a perfectionist, so I couldn’t care less. I will save everyone the investigative work: my spoken grammar is not always perfect. I already know that, the people close to me know it, and acknowledging it does not embarrass me. Most of this response is probably a waste of my time, but I will turn it into something worthwhile. Here it goes.

Speaking spontaneously in public and writing are two entirely different disciplines. My abilities have always been strongest on the written page because writing is what I have done throughout most of my life. I have written lyrics, poetry, stories, books, long-form articles, investigative pieces, commentary, and countless other creative works. Writing gives me the time and space to arrange my thoughts precisely. Speaking in real time does not always produce that same precision, especially when I am processing several different thoughts at once.

A person’s occasional grammatical mistake does not determine the limits of their intelligence, knowledge, creativity, or professional ability. Being polished in conversation does not automatically make someone brilliant, just as stumbling over a sentence does not make someone incapable. Language is a tool—not a complete measurement of the person using it.

I did not grow up being prepared for public life. Much of my childhood was secluded, and my opportunities to interact with the public were limited. I was also bullied repeatedly until the day came when I had finally had enough and stood my ground. Those experiences influenced how I approached people, how quickly I trusted them, and how much of myself I allowed others to see.

As I grew older, I deliberately began stepping into environments that once felt unfamiliar. I started bands, performed, created public projects, and gradually placed myself more directly in the public eye. That is something I came to enjoy, but becoming visible did not erase everything that came before it. I learned how to stand before an audience without becoming a different person for that audience.

Becoming someone else for the sake of public approval would make me a fake person, and I have no interest in being fake. I would rather give people the genuine person—my real personality and the unfiltered version of who I am. If you don’t like that, then you know where to go.

Someone who spends an hour with me, reads one email, hears one conversation, or watches one brief appearance does not understand my complete personality. Some people make immediate judgments because they believe a short interaction gives them enough information to define another human being. It does not. Those who have known me for years understand my humor, intensity, loyalty, creativity, guarded nature, and the experiences responsible for each of them.

I do not trust people immediately, and I have good reasons for that. Throughout my life, my kindness has been exploited more times than I care to count. I have been misled, used, underestimated, and taken advantage of by people who mistook generosity for weakness. I did not stop being kind, but I learned to protect that kindness. Keeping it in check is healthier than repeatedly allowing people to use it against me.

Life was not what I believed it would be when I left my mother’s home at fifteen years old. I left because family life was not good at that time, and I learned some of life’s hardest lessons much earlier than anyone should have to learn them. Much of what I know today was not handed to me through ideal circumstances, expensive instruction, or an effortless path. I learned through necessity, persistence, failure, observation, experimentation, and a refusal to remain defeated.

I also want to place something else clearly on the record: I created this business.

The concepts, brands, websites, publishing systems, custom modifications, payment infrastructure, visual presentation, and much of what people experience throughout The Realist Juggernaut began with me. I developed the ideas, made the decisions, learned the systems, assembled the components, and continued working until they functioned. I created the foundation and built the machine that my team now helps maintain.

I appreciate my team and recognize the work they contribute. This is not intended to diminish anyone who has helped maintain, support, or strengthen what exists, and my team knows that firsthand. There is an important difference between helping operate something and having originally conceived and built it. My team members understand that distinction, and they will tell you themselves that I built the foundation, developed the entire core, and created all the code, both old and new, that we continue to perfect every day.

No one handed me a completed website with advanced modifications, a publishing operation, payment center, media network, photography business, music projects, or the collection of brands we have built. I had to learn how these things worked. I taught myself how to produce books and music, master photography, build websites, create digital systems, develop custom functionality, work with different kinds of software, operate professional photography equipment, build computer systems, repair machinery, and solve complex technical problems.

When I encounter something I do not know how to do, my usual response is to learn it. I have been that way my entire life, taking things apart to understand how they work, putting them back together again, and finding ways to make them even better.

That process did not happen overnight. It represents years of curiosity, mistakes, persistence, long hours, and work that most people never witnessed. People often see a finished result and assume it appeared easily. They do not see the failed attempts, discarded versions, late nights, backups, rebuilds, tests, or the hundreds of decisions required to make that finished result exist.

Someone once looked at my LinkedIn profile and claimed it was impossible for one person to know how to do that many things. That conclusion says more about the limits they have accepted for themselves than it does about my abilities. I do know how to do those things, and I have demonstrated them repeatedly throughout the years. A person does not become less capable merely because someone else cannot imagine developing several disciplines during a lifetime.

I am not claiming to be the smartest human being who ever lived. I do not need to make that claim. I am saying something much simpler: I am what I say I am, and I have done what I say I have done.

My work exists. The books exist. The music exists. The photography exists. The articles, brands, websites, software components, designs, payment systems, and technical solutions exist. They are not hypothetical qualifications written on a page. They are visible evidence.

Being self-taught does not mean being unqualified. In many cases, it means learning without a predetermined ceiling. It means acquiring knowledge because a real problem must be solved, then continuing until that solution works. Credentials can be valuable, but competence is ultimately demonstrated through results, and in the end, those results are what matter.

When people make statements about me that are knowingly false, it irritates me—and I make no apology for that. Criticism does not frighten me, and disagreement does not offend me. Dishonesty is different. If someone wishes to criticize my grammar, my opinions, my style, or the way I conduct myself, they are free to do so. At least make the criticism truthful. Do not invent a person you have never met and then attack the character you created.

This statement is not an exercise in self-praise. It is a matter of documentation. I am putting it on the record so that the next person who decides I must be lying about my experience, abilities, or accomplishments has something directly from me to read. They can examine the work, review the history, and conduct their own research before making claims about a life they have not lived.

I have weaknesses, as every person does. Spoken grammar happens to be one of mine. I can acknowledge that without surrendering everything else I have earned, learned, survived, built, and created. A weakness in one area does not erase competence in twenty others.

If your only contribution is an insulting email about my speech, consider whether that is truly the best use of your time. Fix what is broken in your own life before devoting your energy to antagonizing me or the people who work alongside me. Constructive criticism can produce growth. Personal attacks built on assumptions produce nothing.

You do not have to like me. You do not have to agree with me. You do not have to appreciate my personality, my work, or the way I communicate. You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to manufacture your own facts.

Say what you want about me—but be legitimate about it. Do not imitate the worst habits of mainstream media by creating a convenient narrative first and searching for evidence afterward. Learn who you are speaking about before presenting assumptions as truth.

The people who truly know me understand what I have endured, what I can accomplish, and the kind of person I am when cameras, websites, and public conversations are no longer involved. Those people know me through experience rather than speculation.

People who know me—know me.

For everyone else, the work is there. Look at it. Research it. Judge it honestly.

Then, if you still want to criticize my grammar, have at it. I will be busy building the next thing.

TRJ Verdict

I can’t stand writing about myself, but I took the time to write this because, well, I had a little time to spare—and because a few of you apparently feel the need to hide behind emails and get yourselves caught up in being Juggernauted. Consider this my reply. LOL.

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