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I hate seeing children walking dogs. I think it’s dangerous and irresponsible to let your child walk your dog especially if its unsupervised.

Just random thought because I saw a video on fb and it reminded me of the post from a woman who let her daughter walk her bulldog and it for free and killed the neighbors cat.

And also just thinking bout the time a kid was walking a gsd in the park and the second it saw me and Ellie it was out if her grasp and running towards us.

Seconds later I was on the ground with the dogs teeth sunken into my arm.

Yeah.

This family down the street from us has a vicious little Yorkie who lived 12 years of his life indoors with absolutely no socialization. The couple lets their 11 year old daughter walk the dog, and even though he’s tiny and can’t pull away from her, it still caused us a lot of trouble.

Kira isn’t dog aggressive, but she sure is apprehensive. One time my dad and Kira were passing this girl and the Yorkie, and the dog just lost his shit and started snapping and snarling at Kira. The girl panicked and dropped the leash, and the two dogs got into it, resulting (obviously) in Kira overpowering the much smaller dog and injuring him, a tiny but deep puncture in his shoulder. It bled quite a bit, or so we were told.

Later that day the parents came down to our house and said they took their dog to the vet, who, of course, were mandated to report a dog bite. Both dogs were put on a 14-day rabies quarantine, and Kira now has that bite permanently on her record.

But she weighed more than me. And had no actual training. I don’t know why, but this day, she decided that she wanted something in the corn field…. That was through a small orchard of apples… Many of which had fallen because we weren’t taking care of our trees properly. So she was on a retractable leash… And she started running.

Now I’m sitting here watching the world’s laziest dog book it twords something in the field…. If I don’t let go, she’ll drag me like a sack of potatoes. If I let go, we may never get her back and she could get hurt…. Not that it’ll matter much if she’s pulling me behind her like it’s nothing anyway. But I don’t let go because I don’t want her to get hurt…. And she hits the end of the leash and I go flying, as expected. But I still don’t let go! So she’s dragging me across the 4 acre plot through half rotting apples and fallen branches to get to the neighbor’s corn field. I finally let go because she’s a mastiff who doesn’t exercise and she’ll get tired enough to come back in a minute. And she did, perfectly fine.

But I was pretty banged up and in some serious pain because I didn’t want to let go because I didn’t want her to get hurt. I never had a problem with her since, but she still hurt me because I did not have the physical capability to hold her back, nor the higher thought to LET THE FUCK GO as it turns out… Because I was 10. I should have never been allowed to handle that dog until I was strong enough to physically restrain her.

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I was

Always polite

Never acted without permission

Never spoke out of turn

Always did what I was told

And it’s shitty that I was considered mature and praised for those things, and all of those characteristics have translated into me being an immature, “bad adult.”

Now I

Have difficulty making a keeping friends

Can’t act without permission/am dependent on others for direction

Am terrible at communicating

Have no agency/personal compass

I am not a burden.

I am not a mistake.

I am not missing a piece.

I am not a disease.

I am not something that needs to be cured.

I am not something that needs to be fixed.

I am not something that needs to be prevented.

I am autistic, and Autism Speaks does not speak for me.

Autism Speaks has SUPPORTED families of autistic people that have abused, and even murdered, their autistic child because they are “too much of a burden”.

Autism Speaks is a board made ENTIRELY of neurotypicals - Autism “Speaks” does not speak for autistic people, they speak for themselves.

Autism Speaks is a hate group.

Autism Speaks tries to instill fear into the minds of others to try and target us as dangerous.

As tragic mistakes.

As something that can be prevented.

But do you know what?

I am autistic, and I am perfect.

Most of the water around here is safe to drink from the tap, but like. Even then, and even when it’s been filtered again, it’s always at least a little bit bitter tasting to me

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Alright y’all, I need some help. My rheum is saying that there is no chance I have lupus and that I have fibro but I don’t agree at all. My symptoms just aren’t explained by fibro or really many other conditions:

- Butterfly rash

- Brain fog

- Joint pain

- Mouth sores

- Photosensitivity

- Anemia

- Chest pain/inflammation

- Protein in urine (proteinuria)

- High ANA titer (1:1280)

- Homogenous, speckled ANA

As long as there are no chemicals used on the yard, and there is little fear of predation, and the temps are ok, it is safe to bring your snake outside.You just want to take care to watch behavior, of course, to prevent stress, and be sure to consult your vet if you have an albino/leucistic or lighter colored individual, to prevent eye and skin damage from reduced melanin.

As long as there are no chemicals used on the yard, and there is little fear of predation, and the temps are ok, it is safe to bring your snake outside.You just want to take care to watch behavior, of course, to prevent stress, and be sure to consult your vet if you have an albino/leucistic or lighter colored individual, to prevent eye and skin damage from reduced melanin.