As a person WITH Asperger's, and with friends who HAVE Asperger's, to see an article labeled with the words "Asperger's", "violent" and "meltdown" is horrible, and puts the idea in people's heads that those of us with it are prone to either violence or meltdowns. Why not just say "Dog Therapeutically Stops Owner From Having Meltdown"? Why the loaded words? ...because it's click bait. And people who doesn't know much or anything about Asperger's Syndrome will click this thinking it as some form of Schizophrenia or Psychosis. Yeah...thanks. Thanks for posting something which puts into people's minds that those of us with A.S. might be prone to violence, or need an animal to keep us sane. Way to misinform the public. THAT is what I have a problem with. The article suggests that people with A.S. are mentally unstable freaks. Good job, B******t Panda.

i have an anxiety disorder..and let me tell you..it makes me do crazy s**t sometimes...and that includes self harm

This actually made me cry. Service dogs and truly life savers and can provide an amazing range of support actions. Not to mention that all important loving snuggle when things just seem so hard.

This dog is awesome. I have a brother with Autism and Retardation. I think I'm going to get him a service dog. He's been have more and more aggressive outbreaks. I hope a furbaby helps him.

I AGREE WITH Mr, Tree1779. A compassionate video and a wonderful thing that the dog was trained to help this person. Having a disability myself I HATE when we get painted with the same brush. I am a person first and my disability is only a small part of who I am.

This is awesome, animals can help in so many ways, my animals keep me happy and makes me get up everyday and do something for them, everyone should have an animal in their lives, they help in so many ways! And there would be less shelters...

A Dog's role on this earth is to aid man. This can take many forms but they do connect with disabled people very , very , well. They have the Compassion and the ability to calm the situation down and assist those that are hurt emotionally.

Samson is a sweetheart to have.A really good buddy.

Ok but why was someone filming this instead of helping that kid?

His name was Kayden Clarke. He was not a woman. He was a trans man. Your use of "she/her" when he used "he/him" pronouns, as he mentions in his videos (clearly the only research done was on the videos that could sensationalise his murder) and your use of Kaydens birth assigned name is wrong and harmful. So is your depiction of autistic people, on that note. (I am autistic myself, and a trans person.)

You have a sweet dog. I see it says you trained but I bet love was there first. You just help the dog were to put love and thank you for saving me to be!

I believe the woman who posted the video used the word meltdown, and violent, while strong, does describe someone hurting themselves. For me, I didn't think anything negative about this post or about the woman with Asperger's. I only saw an individual who took charge of her circumstance by training a dog to help her, and doing it so well that her pet did his job. I found it remarkable and inspiring. Coming from a family with more than its share of anxiety and panic disorders, it's good information to have that you can train a pet to assist you with behavioral issues.

That kids is not an aspie. We don't act like that... No aspie I know would do that s**t. This article is just insulting and misinforming.

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