SERVICE DOG PSA
So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)
I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up
If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help
Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him
WHO IS REALLY OUT HERE IGNORING A SERVICE DOG?? If ANY type of dog approaches me im in. no questions asked, where you going? can i come?
Tag: psa
PSA
What helps your medical condition might not help other people
What you are comfortable doing to help heal yourself might not be in other people’s comfort zones
The choices you make medically may not be the same choices other chronically ill/disabled/nuerodivergent people make
Respect each other’s medical choices and don’t press them to try something just because it helped you; they might not be comfortable with it and it may not even benefit them.
We have enough adversity from the able-bodied community assuming we all need yoga and vegan diets, please try not to add to that when speaking to your fellow disabled friends.
Holding the Bowl 