So, I follow this mom of an autistic woman on Facebook. I'm also autistic, BTW, but have different needs and am different cognitively from her.

Anyhow, the mom was talking about how her daughter used to be afraid of dogs, so fearful in fact that she'd crawl into her mom's arms and would never want to get back down. But, over time, she, apparently, wanted to get over this fear herself and wanted to start trusting dogs more and more.

Their family got a dog named Winston which, over time, the woman came to trust and love, and now, according to the mom, she loves all dogs and gets very happy to see them.

Here's the issue I have with this post: instead of the mom taking her daughter away from the source of her fear so that she would no longer be scared, it would seem as though a love of dogs was something she would ultimately want her daughter to have? And even if her daughter wanted to overcome it on her own terms, why wouldn't the mother allow her to just not like them even if she overcame the fear? Because I'm not saying she should have been scared, because being scared isn't anything someone should have to go through, but being able to get rid of the source of the fear should also be something considerate. So, like I said, the mother taking her away from the dogs, or telling the owners of her autism and how that could induce her fear, etc....

And the comments were no better. Just praising the daughter, going on and on about how amazing dogs are, about how people were getting their disabled children ESA dogs, etc.... like, asagain, I'm autistic and cannot stand them!!! Why must this ableist narrative that dogs and disabled people go hand in hand? Not even if it's from a medical issue, but just for emotional support or something? This whole "You must really love animals if you're that and that and that." Oh my god, I hate that!!!