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A snapshot of one morning, on a relaxed day with mild weather. Now imagine this when it's crowded or when it's raining or snowing.
Video description: POV from the lap of a wheelchair user. Very shaky. OP is going downhill on a fall day. Lots of trees and fallen leaves around. There are construction trucks to the left in the very beginning. Every now and then, you can see a German Shepherd on the left. Second obstacle shows a food robot crossing the sidewalk to drive in front of OP, but it stops suddenly and OP crashes into it. OP continues down the hill until she reaches another food robot, which is obstacle 3. This robot sits in the middle of the sidewalk while OP navigates around it. Then OP comes to a concrete ramp with iron railings, which is obstacle 3.5. It is very steep. After the ramp, OP goes to cross the street, where a black SUV blows through the crosswalk. Obstacle 4 is a ramp with red brick. OP struggles to move up and pauses at one point before continuing again to obstacle 5, where there is a big concrete building and manual doors. The German Shepherd service dog goes up to push the accessibility button multiple times to no avail. A student comes and opens the door, OP enters through two sets of doors into a hallway. Clip change to obstacle 6, OP is wheeling down a hallway and approaches a white elevator with out of order signs.
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#actually disabled#disabled#ambulatory wheelchair user#service dog#college#wheelchair#manual wheelchair#disability#inaccessibility#wheelie#city bus#college campus#campus bus#student#stem#women in stem#disabled scientist#disabled people in stem#service dog in training#dogs#german shepherd#assistance dog#shaky camera#flashing
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revamped design with all of my disabled keith haring style dancin' guys all together, updated to include the yellow power chair user ~
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#cripple punk#keith haring#disabled dancers#cane user#wheelchair user#service dog#rollator#forearm crutches#electric wheelchair#mobility aids
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Help Me Get a Service Dog to Live a Better Life!!!
I have been waiting for years for and an opportunity like what I have just been given. I have been researching service dogs extensively for years, and now I have an opportunity to get a prospect for one…… but in 2 WEEKS! I need help funding the cost of the puppy as well as the flight ($2500 approx) to get across the country. While this has been on short notice please know that this has not been a rash impulse choice, this all has been in the making for sometime now, and there is already a dog picked out that is perfect for my needs. My community is ready and willing to support me through this process of training a service dog and think it could be one of the best things for my health.
Having a service dog would allow me to work a traditional job again, would allow me to have more freedom and autonomy, this is going to change my life in a very impactful way. I want to be able to leave my home without fear of passing out and falling, I want to be able to work again, I want to be able to get out and be a human being again, to finally have the ability to do things by and for myself!\ For the first time in a while I have hope for my future, hope that my quality of life can improve, hope to feel like me again.
Please if you can share and donate! This is vital to my health, my quality of life and future.
$2,600 GOAL!!!!!!!
CA: $sleepyhen
VN: wildwotko
Dm for Paypl
#chronic illness#chronic pain#spoonie#pots#ehlers danlos syndrome#service dog#please help me get my life back#I am legit crying bc i have the opportunity to get a prospect which wasnt in the cards before#This would help me so much and i might be able to have job again!!!!#thank you to everyone who shares and cares in advance muah!
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I don’t think I’ve talked much about having a service dog on here, but maybe I should
Boom used to be my service dog, I got him the summer before my last year of high school bcuz I needed a nurse 24/7 to ensure I could eat/sleep/stay alive due to a recent very traumatizing event in my life and my mom came up with the service dog idea.
Getting him was hard. And expensive. No trainers were up to my standards. I, who could barely take care of myself, had to train my own dog. The problem is no matter how hard I worked, my own family or other trainers would ruin it all by messing up my commands, by letting my dog do things I had trained him not to do. It wasn’t training anymore, I ended up simply having breakdowns because everyone kept ruining my dog. People close to me thought they could be an exception to the rules I had taught my MEDICAL AID because surely my DOG would learn the difference between them and strangers.
Eventually I brought him to school. Printed papers explaining what a service dog was and how to behave around him and I plastered them all over the place.
People barked at him, petted him, tried to grab his attention.
His harness was hot pink, patches and signs on it that very clearly said “DO NOT TOUCH” and shit like that.
Someone defaced one of the papers.
Going to school was already hard, I could barely leave the house, my mom had to accompany me to the school doors every morning and then a social worker at school would greet me there and take care of me throughout the day.
I had my own locker at a floor mostly unoccupied so I wouldn’t see other people much and my dog wouldn’t be too distracted.
But it was still to much and I ended up dropping out four months before graduation.
I couldn’t leave the house. I had Boom but he wasn’t perfect yet. People kept ruining him.
But eventually I managed to leave the house. Go to a shopping mall from time to time with him to just walk and have fun.
Too many times people came up to me to tell me the gear I used was hurting my dog. Too many times people came up to me to tell me that their own dog died. Too many people came up to him and pet him without even acknowledging my presence. Too many people telling me they wished they could bring their pets anywhere. Too many people disrespecting me and my service dog.
I stopped going out. I stopped being with my dog.
All this stress and trauma drove a wedge between my dog and I. I consider him my mother’s dog now.
I had to learn to handle myself alone when I went out. It took me years to learn to go out by myself. Only last year I started doing that.
My dog doesn’t live in my room with me anymore.
Having a service dog did still save my life. But those around me ruined that. They made it about themselves. They prioritized my dog over me. My dog that LOVES working. If you tell him “do you want to go to work” chances are he’ll get so excited he will attempt to do a backflip.
We used to have a deep bond. That bond is now broken. People took that from us.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is:
Let people and their service dogs alone.
You are not an exception.
You are not special.
You are disrupting the dog’s training and distracting it.
You are endangering a human life because you can’t resist petting the cute dog.
This isn’t about you. This is about a disabled person trying to simply live their lives.
You don’t know what you’re talking about, your advice is unsolicited and lacks understanding of what the life of a working dog is.
Just leave us alone.
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Some traumatized turtles getting the Service Dog experience.
Blue's (@weregreatatcrime's rat!!) service dog Cheese can sense that these men are... a bit fucked up. Helped Don get some GOOD SLEEP for once and helped Leo work through a nasty panic episode. What a good bupper snup
#the other boys will get to experience it next but this is all i have rn!!#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt 2k17#leo#donnie#service dog#tmnt oc#blue#cheese#blue cheese lol#art of koi#tw panic attack
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#tiktok#dog#allergy detection animal#nut allergy#food allergy#allergies#tw medical mention#tw food mention#service animal#service dog
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more doodles and also HEY YOU GUYS SHOULD GO READ THIS @cure-icy-writes WROTE A FIC
#cloud draws#cure-icy-writes#YELLING SCREAMING FR#fullmetal alchemist#fma#edward elric#service dog#DEN IS BEST DOGGO#crying fr i cant beli e ve
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He is people.
#Gordie Howe#Gordie the potato#ACD#australian cattle dog#Queensland Heeler#dogblr#service dog#gonna blaze it#no one can stop me
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Officially forming the theory that the reason more service dog handlers don't use protective gear like boots, goggles, and ear protection on their dog is because the public becomes 3000% more unbearable when they try.
We're all used to "aaaaawwww look the the doggo" when we go out with our working animals, but getting
1. Accosted for pictures (whether folks ask or just invade your space and distract your dog)
2. Pointed at like an exhibit
3. Shouted at (OMG DOGGLES, "why is it wearing that" etc)
4. Actively followed around by strangers
Is downright fucking awful.
I know it looks cool. I know some of our gear is specialized. I know pet dogs don't usually wear/tolerate what SDs learn the wear. But for the love of whatever you deem holy, BE KIND ABOUT IT. All of the actions listed above are just fucking rude. Leave people alone. Leave service dogs alone.
Disabled people can exist without being spectacles
#service dog#be respectful#educate#service dog training#working dog#respect the vest#dogs#important#task trained#dont be a dick#dont be nosey#dont be an asshole#mind your business#invisible disability#disability rights#disability advocacy#be polite#common decency
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Disabled bathroom psa:
When I and other wheelchair users are talking about how abled people should not be using disabled toilets I can almost garente that they are not talking about your standard slightly larger stall in a bathroom with only two stalls. Im talking about separate bathrooms designed entirely for disabled people. Handicap bathrooms are different from handicap stalls. They are a separate room with its own toilet sink and mirror all positioned with the equipment designed for those with mobility issues and mobility aids such as walkers, gait trainers, wheelchairs, and crutches. A handicap stall is a stall ment to be wide enough to alow a wheelchair to fit (most don't though especially if you are fat or in a power chair.) With one or two grab bars placed. I don't care about people using the handicap stall if others are taken, they need the extra room (bags don't count, I mean things like strollers, todlers, fat, and autistic people not your shopping) those who need the grab bars like people with mobility issues, back problems, and invisible disabilities. I also don't care if you use it because all the others are in use. I care when people use it to make stupid videos on their phone, hang out, smoke, or just cause they like it when there are a dozen other stalls available. I swear most of you never think of anything besides making sure that you are never the one in the wrong.🙄
If I'm not talking about you, IM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU.
I am talking about those who use those bathrooms as a fashion changing stall. The ones who smoke and film tik toks talking about the crazy disabled person knocking on the door. I am talking about the people who, after telling then I am going to pee myself decide that acting like I don't exist or that they can't here me will make me go away and guess what? Make me pee all over myself.
#disabled#disability#actually disabled#wheelchair#wheelchair user#physical disability#mobility aid user#service dog#bathroom#handicap stall#wheelchair bathroom#wheelchair problems
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Why is being disabled embarrassing? Why am I truly embarrassed to need thing things I NEED, why am I embarrassed to even get a cane? To take my SD places in the future?
Like I'm disabled, I've been disabled since I was at least 15, but what if I'm not disabled enough? What if it's all in my head, yknow?
#rosie.talks#disabled#actually disabled#service dog#disability#invisible disability#physical disability#chronic disability#chronic pain#chronic fatigue#mentally disabled#actually mentally ill
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Okay folks: I’m working on a presentation about accessibility at zoos for an upcoming meeting.
One thing I’m touching on is the importance of supporting and welcoming real service dog teams. People sneaking their pets in / pretending ESAs are service dogs is becoming a real problem, and the general reflex I’m seeing in the industry is to just make it harder for anyone with a dog, so I want to ask the audience to think about that a little and consider other approaches to solving the problem.
I’d like to include a collage of photos of well-behaved service dogs at zoos and aquariums to help reinforce the point. Which means it’s photo request time! If you’ve got a photo of you / your service dog clearly at a zoo, aquarium, or other similar facility and would be willing to let me use it in this presentation, please chat/ask/email me (whyanimalsdothething @ gmail). I’m happy to block out human faces.
TIA. ❤️ 🦮🐕🦺
#service dogs#zoo accessibility#service dog#photo request#don’t worry about going and taking new ones or anything this slide deck is due in like two days oops
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Help Us Take my Service Dog in Training to the Vet!
I am remaking a post for my service dog in training since the last one has stalled. He is growing like a weed! so we need to replace some of his gear already, get him into puppy classes and most important take him to the vet. We have enough for the vet but not enough to get there and back. The cost of an Uber Pet is almost as expensive as the vet visit ($75) so that expense is the most important for right now.
The goal is at $530!
CA: $sleepyhen
VN: wildwotko
Dm 4 P@ypal
#chronically ill#black history month#ehlers danlos syndrome#service dog#disability justice#remaking bc the last post got a lot of traction but not a lot of support#i love my baby boy look at how big he is getting!#he is big but he is only 13 weeks old!
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my service dog prospect isn't even a year old yet, but i'm already excited to visit the world once more
it'll be wonderful to experience freedom again
#service dog#disability#scenery#landscape#cityscape#urban landscape#mall#department store#crossroads#rainy#rainy night#rainy street#taipei#puppy
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HCs: Perrito learning therapeutic / service techniques
Perrito lives up to his self-proclaimed title as “Therapy Dog” with flying colors, and not just due to his unrelenting optimism. He’s smart as a whip, and learns insanely quickly.
He goes beyond basic therapeutic needs, picking up on certain service techniques faster than it would take for a typical dog to be trained in one.
If Puss is feeling anxious at all, Perrito will catch on immediately and make sure to stay extra close to him for the time being. If he starts showing any cues for his anxiety (which, in Puss’ case, can consist of stuttered breathing, hypervigilance, and his fur standing on end), Perrito will gently paw at him or nudge his head underneath his paw, silently telling him to pet him.
He doesn’t just help Puss; Kitty suffers from chronic pain due to her declawing, so Perrito will often fetch things for her before she can even stand up to get it. He’ll also take note of whenever she’s massaging her paws, and will lie down on his back next to her so she can “make biscuits” on his belly, as it works as a form of self-soothing for her.
Both cats had trouble getting used to the sudden increase in care upon traveling with the dog. Puss would sometimes push Perrito away, not wanting to feel coddled like some scared kitten, and Kitty would tend to scold the dog for retrieving things for her, claiming that she could take care of herself and wasn’t some fragile old lady.
However, as time goes on, the two of them do eventually learn to accept his help, and soon to appreciate it. They’re both rather surprised at how much…lighter they feel knowing they all have each other to lean on when they need it.
#cw anxiety#cw chronic pain#cw internalized ableism#puss in boots#puss in boots: the last wish#puss in boots the last wish#perrito#puss in boots perrito#kitty softpaws#therapy dog#service dog#headcanons
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