There are already airline policies in place that have significantly impeded the ability of people with disabilities to travel. Advance notification policies hurt people who may need to fly to see a specialist on short notice. The exclusion of service animals from online check-in hurts families who have children with autism that cannot wait in line for hours without having severe meltdowns. An individual with epilepsy can now, hypothetically, be separated from their travel companions for extra verification. Even if their service dog is trained to alert others of an oncoming seizure, what good is the alert if the family members who have been trained to respond to and support the person with epilepsy cannot be present?
The problem is that people bring their poorly behaved animals on planes because they’re taking advantage of an accommodation meant for individuals with disabilities. True support animals are highly trained to perform specific, very important tasks; emotional support animals are not, and the evidence that they actually help people with anxiety/depression is shaky at best. It’s incredibly selfish and just generally shitty to exploit a loophole meant for individuals with disabilities (because no one is allowed to make you *prove* a disability to receive an accommodation) and potentially inconvenience others just because you want to take your Maltese on a plane.
In my opinion, people who do this are no better than the people who rent wheel chairs so they can skip to the front of the line at Disney World.
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After hours office sex is a 10/10.
*asks myself how Eric keeps bagging girls that are way too cool for him*
*remembers he dropped $150 on a first date*
Gonna need a more in depth review of your time with CMV.
THIS. Also, poorly behaved service animals do nothing but exacerbate my travel anxiety.
There are already airline policies in place that have significantly impeded the ability of people with disabilities to travel. Advance notification policies hurt people who may need to fly to see a specialist on short notice. The exclusion of service animals from online check-in hurts families who have children with autism that cannot wait in line for hours without having severe meltdowns. An individual with epilepsy can now, hypothetically, be separated from their travel companions for extra verification. Even if their service dog is trained to alert others of an oncoming seizure, what good is the alert if the family members who have been trained to respond to and support the person with epilepsy cannot be present?
I understand that you, personally, may not travel with your dog again.However, the blasé, “I got my dog on a plane with a $9.99 .pdf and a plastic service tag,” attitude is actually hurting people with disabilities and their families. Just because it’s tongue-in-cheek doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful.
The problem is that people bring their poorly behaved animals on planes because they’re taking advantage of an accommodation meant for individuals with disabilities. True support animals are highly trained to perform specific, very important tasks; emotional support animals are not, and the evidence that they actually help people with anxiety/depression is shaky at best. It’s incredibly selfish and just generally shitty to exploit a loophole meant for individuals with disabilities (because no one is allowed to make you *prove* a disability to receive an accommodation) and potentially inconvenience others just because you want to take your Maltese on a plane.
In my opinion, people who do this are no better than the people who rent wheel chairs so they can skip to the front of the line at Disney World.
But there’s also a 100% chance they don’t want the other girl to get picked.