Emotional Support Animals are Horseshit

Your teacup poodle/cat/iguana/elephant/snake/cockroaches are not service animals. There is no such thing as an "emotional support animal." You are not special. You do not have a disability. (Wait - is an over-inflated sense of entitlement a disability? I hope not.) Service animals are for people who are actually disabled, you asshole. People who cannot see need dogs to help them walk around without running into things or getting run over by cars. These are trained working animals, not pets. By claiming that you have a "condition" that requires that you take your precious Fluffy everywhere, you're cheapening the ADA for those who need it. The boy who cried ADA means that, in the future, any time someone actually needs assistance, people will just roll their eyes and whisper about "special privileges." Stop it. Be a grown-ass adult and deal with the fact that pets aren't supposed to go everywhere people go.

Did you ever stop to consider that there are people who are so highly allergic to dogs that you are physically endangering them by taking your dog into a restaurant? Of course you didn't - that would imply that you had stopped to think about someone else. Maybe if you have so much anxiety that you can't leave the house without your cat, you should take Valium, like everyone else. Your narcissistic selfishness should not be the rest of the world's problem.

I'm so glad that the ADA finally caught on and updated their definition of service animal to stop self-entitled assholes from being able to parade any animal they can manage to attach to a leash everywhere they want to go. A service animal must be a dog. But that doesn't stop those with breeds that could not possibly be providing any assistance from trying to pretend they're disabled.

(Side note: when did having a disability go from being something embarrassing and hidden to something people fake to get their way? Is this better?)

Now, if you actually are disabled, and you actually need assistance, that's fine. If you are blind, I hope your trained service dog is sitting next to you while you read this. But, for the love of god people, stop claiming made-up disorders because you really, really like a specific apartment and want to move in despite the no pets policy. Being an asshole is not a disability.