I could not agree with you more. This is a powerful statement. Your analogy of ten experts given the same case, separately, would likely result in ten different opinions is graphic and correct. This is the bewildering jungle parents and often later, their grown children must navigate. It's hard to overcome the burden of the title. Experts are needed to try and navigate the mine fields set by their colleagues in obscure language.

I always found it curious in a court setting to see "experts" being qualified before they could testify as an expert, then to see two experts, brought in by opposing sides come to opposite conclusions, leaving the lay jury to sort things out. I thought that personality was sometime the deciding factor. How strange it seemed to see the exact same evidence seen in such opposite ways.

I just know you are very good at your job and do not tangentially grab at words just to impress, but that you have walked the walk, as have the parents that you mention and as far as practical words, advice, ways to succeed, there is no better source than these "experts" without title, without public acknowledgment except by their peers.

I think you have qualified, by any serious measure, to be so titled, but I respect each of your points against having it, or needing it, done. We need, something though, to show who runs the place. :)