Here's a controversial topic, emotional support animals. I'll begin with a couple simple questions. How are they different from a teddy bear? Are they any different from having a night light? And why do we support that with legislation? Why are we issuing papers that allow people to take animals with them everywhere they go because they require emotional support? Why are we enabling a mental health issue instead of attempting to correct that. I guess for the same reason we are now being told there are more than two gender choices. It isn't crazy if we allow that, make it a normal thing. Yeah, it wasn't crazy to behead people either, or burn them at the stake, that was normal too. But just how did we arrive at this emotional support animal thing, that's what I want to know.
Now I get the guide dog thing for the blind, that makes perfect sense. I also understand the whole attachment thing to your pet. Still, an emotional support animal is used for a mental health disorder. So, the experts all agree on that, it is a mental disorder. It's a psychiatric disability. It wasn't until 1988 however that legislation began to be introduced regarding emotional support animals. It was introduced as part of the housing and urban development to allow animals to live in those housing units. It has spread ever since. And now I'm expected to make concessions for, to give special treatment and consideration to anyone with an emotional support animal. Yes, be kind to the mentally ill.
So just what emotional support do those animals provide? They certainly get the attention those folks so desperately want, that's for certain. Look at me, look at me! I'm special and should be treated in a special way. In my opinion it's the same thing with all this "pride" stuff. Look at me, I'm different than you and you have to acknowledge that, support that, and treat me differently. I'm so special! No, you're not, you have a mental issue. An issue the majority of us outgrow when we are very young. You know when we begin to understand the difference between reality and fantasy. We do understand that carrying a teddy bear with us is just weird! Yeah, call it peer pressure or whatever, but that is the reality of life. It isn't a normal thing to require an emotional support object, even when that object is a living creature of some sort.
If that animal isn't a trained support animal for a person with a physical disability that animal has no place in planes, trains, shopping centers, restaurants or anywhere the public in general would have to contend with that. Keep your pets in your personal space! You say you need that animal for emotional support. What if I say I need an AR-15 for emotional support or a colt 45, shouldn't I be allowed to carry those with me? Why not, it's an emotional thing, makes me feel secure. If you need a snake, I need a gun. Same thing right? It's for my mental well being. You feel threatened by that, maybe I feel threatened by your animal. Some folks are really afraid of dogs, cats, snakes, pigs or whatever. They have a phobia! It's a mental disability.
You may ask why does that bother me. That's a valid question and my answer is simply, because it is crazy. When we start empowering, supporting, and legislating mental issues as some sort of human right, we are a society in decline. It isn't anything to be celebrated. It should actually be a source of concern. What is happening to us? Are we to become a group of emotionally dependent people that can not accept reality? Are we to be crippled by emotional instability? We need medications and emotional support animals to function in society because other people are just mean. I want my teddy bear! Those fidget spinners just didn't cut it did they? Didn't get nearly the attention you wanted. So now I'll dye my hair purple, get tattoos all over my body, piercings in my face, use a different pronoun and carry a dog dressed as a baby. It's all for my emotional well being. It's nuts! That's my opinion.
All that being said I will add that I have never said anything to anyone in public about any of that. I keep those opinions to myself for the most part. So why I am writing it down? Well, because I'm leaving a record of my thoughts and feelings for future generations. I have often wondered what my grandparents, great grandparents and beyond thought about their current events, how they felt about things. I'm aware of a few people that read my blogs, people that I have known or went to school with, some I have met on Facebook. I don't hide anything from anyone when it comes to sharing my views. It has cost me some friendships, some people don't like or agree with me and that's alright, it happens. This blog is simply meant to leave my thoughts regarding emotional support animals. It's my feeling the vast majority of them are just bogus, a cry for attention and shouldn't be encouraged. Too many people today willing to assume the role of "victim" and so deserving of special treatment. Look at me, look at me. Yeah, I see you.
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