An autistic woman loves her dog – but not the attention he attracts from other people, it has been reported.
Tricia Squire, 34, walks her five-year-old Samoyed, Chewy, twice a day, attracting constant attention from people eager to delay Squire’s walk on the baseless assumption that dog owners are universally sociable.
Squire said: “We can’t go five minutes without someone stopping me to say something completely useless and expecting me to respond. I know he’s cute, I know he’s fluffy, but I am holding a bag of his shit in my hand and I am very clearly wearing my ‘don’t-perceive-me’ pyjamas so could you all just read the goddamn room?! Don’t! Talk! To! Me!”
“I’m considering hanging a sign around my neck with all my FAQs on,” Squire continued. “No, he’s not a husky, not everything is a fucking husky. I don’t care that he’s just like your dog that died. And no, he’s not a girl dog just because he’s pretty. That’s not how dogs work.”
“And yes, he’s friendly, but crucially I’m not.”
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