Michigan Woman Brings Miniature Horse on Plane as Her Service Animal: 'He Is So Bonded with Me'

[Ms. Toad]

66. So I assume you are perfectly fine, then

With random members of the public demanding your daughter prove she is disabled, and prove why she needs specific accommodations (and if she declines, it is perfectly fine for them to call her a liar)?

I am hostile, and frankly, as the parent of a child with a disability you should be too.

My daughter has a related disease to the one this woman has. Her disability is similarly invisible - and she had to drop out of college because of its repeated refusal to accommodate the unpredictable nature of her disease. By the time the college finally got their lawyer involved (who agreed completely with the accommodations requested three years earlier, before she was forced to take three successive medical leaves) it was too late. Their illegal and uncaring response contributed to anxiety that (in combination with her other disabilities) made it impossible for her to complete her education.

So it cuts really close to home when I see people -especially people who have absolutely no connection to granting accommodations calling a person with a disability a liar because she chooses not to open all the details of her disability open to the public so they can judge whether she is worthy enough. Even more so when it turns out that she has a companion disease to the one my daughter has.