Parents for Dog Bite Awareness

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 “𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.” 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 likely 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗺𝗶𝘅 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝘆𝘀𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 requiring 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗗𝗛𝗗.

Notice some of the hash tags as well. They elevate dogs above humans and dogs as “the best” therapy. This ties back to the study on neurotic narcissism and altered empathy in attachment disorders. 

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺

This post anthropomorphizes a fighting breed dog into a kind of psychic mirror, a creature who senses the owner’s inner world, anticipates her needs, and rescues her from emotional pain.

That isn’t a description of neurodivergence. It’s projection: the unconscious act of assigning your own emotions and unmet attachment needs onto an external being.

When she writes that her pitbull “knew what she needed without training” and “understood her panic attack,” she’s describing magical thinking, the belief that emotional connection alone can suspend reality, danger, or biology.

This thinking style is common in trauma survivors, people with borderline personality or dependent traits, or those struggling with chronic dysregulation and abandonment fears. It’s a tender coping mechanism, but one that collapses boundaries between human and animal in unsafe ways.

𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

A healthy attachment recognizes the animal as other, a companion with needs, instincts, and limits.

An unhealthy one merges identities: “we know what each other needs,” “we don’t need words,” “he saves me from myself.”

That’s not bonding. That’s enmeshment.

It blurs responsibility and turns the dog into a symbolic caretaker for the human’s pain. In psychological terms, the animal becomes a regulatory object which is a substitute for therapy, medication, or human relationship repair.

And when that “object” happens to be a bloodsport derived breed (one created for violent arousal, pain tolerance, and unrelenting grip reflex) the result is a catastrophic mismatch between the fantasy and the biological reality.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘅

Fighting breeds are uniquely involved in cases where owners are fatally mauled during a medical or emotional emergency such as seizures, panic attacks, fainting, diabetic episodes.

No other breed group shows this consistent pattern.

Why?

Because the drive states that were bred into bloodsport dogs such as quick escalation, predation toward sudden movement or distress cues, and resistance to inhibition are incompatible with the fantasy of a gentle emotional guardian.

In plain terms: the same traits that made these dogs effective in a pit make them neurologically unsafe as therapy animals.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲, It’s Reality

The “love heals all” narrative is deeply seductive, especially for people who have been abandoned, invalidated, or shamed. But it isn’t love that changes genetic wiring or instinctive motor patterns.

Love can’t undo centuries of violent selection. Love can’t even fix the lasting harm of a dog being abused, starved, and abandoned. Bloodsport dog advocates know this. They confirm it every time they remind us that, “It’s all how they’re raised” and “the pit must’ve been abused.” They just conveniently twist this truth when it suits their hero narrative. 

In trauma recovery, what’s healing isn’t the illusion of control, it’s learning to set realistic boundaries between self and other, between fantasy and risk, between compassion and denial. 

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲

If you need an animal to help regulate panic or emotional distress, choose one bred for that purpose with a calm temperament, predictable reactions, low prey drive, high human attentiveness.

If you’re projecting your emotional needs onto a dog whose lineage was designed for combat, that’s not neurodivergence. That’s unresolved trauma calling for treatment, not a “miracle bond.” If you’re exploiting an abused and abandoned dog on monetized social media and marketing it in groups of neurodivergent and vulnerable people, that’s another topic altogether. 

We can care deeply about people and animals and still tell the truth about risk. Survivors and people with neurodivergence have a right to informed consent and a right to a safe, healthy environment. 

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