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I see where you're coming from, but some people just can't connect with others for whatever reason. Mental illness or disability, anxiety, or just being really introverted can make it hard for someone to have many human friends, or be as close with them as most people are. For some of those people, an animal can literally be a best friend and the only thing keeping that person from being incredibly lonely. Animals are cathartic. It's pretty unfair to unilaterally conclude that everyone whose best friend is a dog is "sad".

if the friend is LITERALLY a dog, an animal, that is fine. if they have a human friend acting like this i'm sorry but it's massively unhealthy and will eventually probably make their issues worse. i've been lonely as fuck due to anxiety and got the one friend who worshiped the ground i stood on. i would have rather had an actual DOG.

I guess I just don't think a nonsentient being can really be my friend? I love dogs and cats, and I think they make great buddies but they don't talk back.

Depends on your definition of sentient. Or how much importance you place on so-called sentience. For some people (not just lonely pathetic people, but say, traumatized, exhausted people who have had a really long horrible life and just want quiet and no talking now), it's perfectly enough of a friendship for them. Some people, who have gone through certain experiences, just do not WANT human friends. Too much anxiety, too much exhaustion, too much complexity, too much guessing. This is all good for young healthy people, but some people just can't handle this -- at least temporarily.

They're certainly not a "replacement" for human friends, of course, but just because they're not a replacement, doesn't mean they're not as meaningful (to some people) or that the person is always missing out, especially if it's, as I said, situational and/or temporary.

Not trying to jump on here like Chard's support, but I think that would be firmly in the "sad" category.

Might have a little more weight if you didn't always just in to support Chard.

Maybe your dog can help you out?

doodly sounds more like your dog tbh

doodly?

He's a labranoodle and was very expensive

Okay, but the default isn't

traumatized, exhausted people who have had a really long horrible life and just want quiet and no talking now),

If you are so traumatized you do not want human contact, you need to see psychological help. Or I don't know, move to the woods and become Snow White.

Edited 2013-12-25 05:31 (UTC)

An AU where Snow White goes to the woods to write about Transcendentalism.

"This isn't so bad! The woodland creatures have been helping me grow produce, so I have more time to write about transcendentalism and how much I dislike the Irish."

There are human beings who can't communicate like most people do (even to the point of being unable to speak or write), who have learning disabilities, injuries, and mental illnesses that make their brains function much differently from those of most people, and they can make wonderful friends, because they're still capable of love, kindness, loyalty, etc. Which some might consider things more necessary to worthwhile companionship than intelligence.

Late to the party, but a hearty +1 to this comment!

If you're defining a "friend" as "someone I can be myself with," well, I think most people feel that they show more of their true selves to their pets than they do to other humans.

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