[nagdu] Oh, so that's why he gets to bring his dog everywhere

[Julie McGinnity]

I think people are asked if they are really blind because our eyes are
expected to look different in some way.  It's another stereotype.  I
am familiar with this because it's very easy to tell I am blind by
looking at me, but I have a friend whose eyes look perfectly normal.
I'm not trying to excuse this rudeness, but I am explaining why this
might happen.

I think it's terrible that we should have to explain our disabilities
to people when it should be obvious that we have one.  Is it really
their business why we have a dog?

I also wonder how many veterans use service dogs in this way.

On 1/24/12, Larry D. Keeler <lkeeler at comcast.net> wrote:
> No, she never tried to touch her.  I just warned her before she did!  She
> was just a person running the service desk.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Harris" <Harris.Robert at epamail.epa.gov>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Oh, so that's why he gets to bring his dog everywhere
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>> Was this woman a police officer or impersonating one?
>> No one has the right to touch you nor your dog, especially in a
>> threatening manner?
>>
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>> From: "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
>>            Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Date: 01/24/2012 04:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Oh, so that's why he gets to bring his dog
>>            everywhere
>> Sent by: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org
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>> Especially when those making the comments are watching you use the
>> service!
>> Someone at Target yelled at me because Holly doesn't have a orange vest
>> on.
>> She does have her Pilot tag on and I had her ID.  She proceeded to tell
>> me
>> what she percieved the law to be.  I told her there was no way she was
>> getting near my dog but I'd show her my ID.  She declined and began back
>>
>> pedalling.  I told her that sence she was so insistant she would see the
>> ID.
>> But, I also said that me showing the ID was optional but sence she was
>> so
>> insistant, I figured she should!!! see it!  I know, she saw Holly and I
>> working because we were in line for quite awhile!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "William Vandervest" <timelord09 at att.net>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Oh, so that's why he gets to bring his dog
>> everywhere
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>>> yea, i get comments like that all the time,  "is that a service dog,
>> is
>>> he/she finished training yet, or, when will he/she be finished
>> training,
>>> why do you need a service dog?, it can get really anoying
>>> William And LD Lynard
>>>
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-- 
Julie McG
 Lindbergh High School class of 2009, participating member in Opera
Theater's Artist in Training Program, and proud graduate of Guiding
Eyes for the Blind

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal
life."
John 3:16