Although I wouldn’t realize it until years later, I adopted a disabled dog because I couldn't live with the loneliness of being the only disabled one in my life.
March 30, 2022, 7:36 PM UTCWhen I left for work one morning several years ago, I never expected to drive home in the evening with a three-legged dog in the passenger seat beside me. As I flicked my turn signal on, I reached over to pat the head of the miniature poodle I’d just adopted. With shaggy white hair covering his eyes, he looked more like a mop than a dog.
“He’s been adopted a few times, but they keep bringing him back,” the employee told me. The weight of all the rejection I’d experienced in the past four years seemed to crush me all at once.. At just 21 years old, crippling fatigue crept into my life, then refused to leave. Just showing up to my college classes felt like scaling a mountain. I’d collapse into bed each night, too exhausted to brush my hair or remove my makeup, then wake up the next morning feeling as if I hadn’t slept at all.
On his first walk the day after I adopted him, the dog hesitated, confused by his leash. Then he lifted his nose to sniff the air, wagged his tail and hopped forward along the sidewalk with enthusiasm. His limp sent his ears flapping as if they were wings. I thought of Wilbur Wright, one of the inventors of the airplane. The next day, I ordered a collar and tags with the name Wilbur printed on them., Wilbur’s disability was obvious. In addition to his amputated leg, scars crisscrossed his back.
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