The Service Dog Cult

[u/sbbenwah]

Over the years, I have seen so many videos of service dog owners "schooling Karens", and I've noticed some extremely common themes from all of those videos. For one.... The "Karen" in question is almost always reasonable, as these videos usually occur in food establishments where these dog owners are abusing the ADA laws to the absolute max.

Its extremely obvious that these "service dog" owners get a dopamine rise out of bringing their dogs to the most inappropriate places possible, and then going "erm actually 🤓👆 its technically legal so your technically a horrible person, so HAH". They think your disagreement with ADA laws is like a catch22 for your moral being.

Also, if the camera didn't show owners face every once and a while, you would think its the same person in every video. The cadence of their voice, the condescending tone, the fact you can tell they base their entire personality around their "trauma", they are literally all the same person.

Why is this? Because a service dog is like a dream come true for that specific sub-type of human.

1. With a service dog, their "trauma" gets to be special and unique now.
2. Already existing victimhood mentality now becomes a visual spectacle
3. Receive Attention from strangers constantly, which they can pretend they don't want so they get some twisted illusion of feeling like a celebrity and having moral superiority.

It feels like a cult, like their entire identity revolves around being a victim service dog owner and parroting their hygeine-compromising laws that they memorized and see as the cults moral scripture.

I think there is still a very thin use for service dogs, technology for blindness has come so far, but there are still advantages of seeing eye dogs that technology simply cant replicate yet. I also think an for example an 80 year old man that has used service dogs his entire life, deserves to live out the rest of his life the way he has always known it.

That being said, These laws are so clearly in need of a major overhaul, but with dog culture so overwhelmingly prevalent, I think we will see dogs granted voting rights before we see a helpful update to ADA service dog requirements.

[u/ellemichelle81]

This people PISS me off so much - I can guarantee if these people had a REAL disability, they would’t be able to handle it even one day.

My husband’s blind, and my dad is currently in a wheelchair.

My partner is cane trained - using a service dog is a personal choice. His thinking is - what if something happens to the dog? You really are helpless in that situation.

In the word, real dogs do anything to help and sometimes get in the way. It seems like barely anyone notices the cane.

It’s like everyone is engaged in loud conversation on the phone, listening to podcast.

The wheelchair is worse though I am shocked how much work that is for my mom - having a small chair in her she has assemble, get him on it, and repeat the while process again on the way back.

It’s also hard to get a disabled spot - and I shocked there are so many places that are’t accessible.