Good on her for saying it because every time the US has a pants shitting embarrassing loss the first thing we get is a retired guy like Dempsey saying how proud they are and how much heart the team showed. Those dudes played like complete ass tonight and people should say so.
This happened last Thursday at Denver International Airport.
Lucas, 6, autistic and minimally verbal, was having a sensory meltdown at the security checkpoint — too much noise, too many people, bright lights. He sat on the floor rocking and hitting his head with his fists. His dad, Brian, knelt beside him, but nothing was working. Security tried to help and made it worse. Travelers stopped and stared; some took photos.
Then Sharon, 61, rolled toward Lucas in her wheelchair with her four-year-old Golden Retriever PTSD service dog, Bear. She stopped a few feet away and unclipped his leash.
Bear walked to Lucas on his own, lay down beside him, and pressed his body against his side. Lucas stopped hitting his head immediately, gripping Bear's fur, his rocking slowing until he leaned into the dog and stayed there. Sharon held back, letting Bear work.
After several minutes, Lucas calmed enough to stand. Brian turned to Sharon, tears in his eyes: "How did you know to do that?"
"Bear is my PTSD service dog," Sharon said. "He's not trained for autism. But he recognized Lucas needed help and pulled toward him. I trusted his instincts. He's done this before — approached people in distress without being asked. He just knows."
"Lucas was in complete meltdown. I couldn't reach him. Security couldn't help," Brian told reporters. "Then this stranger let her service dog help my son. Bear did what I couldn't."
Airport staff gave the family priority boarding and commended Sharon. "Bear helps me every day," she said. "But sometimes he knows others need help too. I always trust when he tells me someone needs him."
Sometimes a service dog's greatest gift is recognizing pain in someone who isn't even their handler.
one of my favorite things in the world is how we pick up little habits, phrases, and mannerisms from the people we love. i still say that one phrase my friend used to say a few years ago. i cook something the way my cousin taught or showed me. i discovered some of my favorite songs from someone i don't even talk to anymore. you collect so many pieces as you go about life. you are a mosaic of everyone you've ever loved, even for a heartbeat.
Julie Ertz started 17 matches and played 1,494 minutes in the last three FIFA Women’s World Cups.
That’s the most minutes + starts than any #USWNT player over the last three editions of the tournament. 🇺🇸
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i realized that i will always be the midnight rain girl, the one who will always choose to suffer alone. who keep on pushing people away when things aren't right with me and chooses to self sabotage because i believe that in order to save them, i must let go of them
I don't think people understand.. you can LITERALLY drive someone to a point of not wanting to be bothered with you at all, on ANY level. rather it's a friendship, relationship, family, etc. it's only so much one person can take