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Service Dog Needed for John's Well-being

Service Dog Needed for John's Well-being

From John Hollingsworth

I am raising money for getting a service dog, which I have a doctor's letter supporting such. I have autism. Donations will go towards purchasing a service dog. Support my campaign by sharing it with your friends!

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John Hollingsworth posted a new update:
2 months ago

Update #1

Dear Sponsors,

I am so happy that there are so many people & organizations that work so hard & care so much to help others who are in need, such as myself. I am blessed that I am able from April-December Of 2023 & January 2024 to have volunteered for Urban Center Apartments & I did landscape/wetland restoring/forestry & garbage pickup. Furthermore, I had about 100 hours of community service there. Way back in early 2021-2022 I volunteered at an ADF, where I did similar work & restoring the place. Now, I am doing church work in 2025, putting chairs away, landscaping, sweeping, picking up garbage, & helping when needed. I even participated in the aid of the men's breakfast for the church. I have been also doing my neighborhood good by reporting crimes/reporting dumping or helping neighbors move in & out or clean up where their car window was broken & they needed to go somewhere. What is neat about the residence here (I have lived here since May 2022) is they have dog walking trails & poo deposit stations, so I get to see some neat nature stuff like where I grew up from. It is not easy doing things with all medical conditions, like dealing with autism. I am working with some groups to help me with finding something I can do, since I am eager to be of service & get things like a part-time job. I am blessed to have the care of team members who can help with this & are helping. I really love volunteering & I want to do more to help & meet my goals sooner than later too. Furthermore, I live by a motto of "empowerment to you, you decide." I understand that it is what we do with the time that is given to us. I want to go above & beyond, to be held to a higher standard. I want to bring chivalry to where I can take it, & help those who will help save the world; to be of service. I have autism. I was late in diagnosis, around 2023. I want to help so more have it better than I did, to man it in this way. So, getting help means all of what I said will be successful thanks to your incredible blessing.
I was particularly interested in my residence because of having a service dog & making sure he/she too would enjoy nature like me to what I could for such a companion because of having physical/mental challenges. I do not see a service dog as “just a medical need/better independence tool," but to really give such an animal a decent life in return as a partner. I am looking for sponsors who relate to my love of the pack mentality that I was brought up on, where on day 1 at my family home I was placed down on the floor with the young dogs & I got licked all over & I was raised with them as an "us as a pack team” which my late father promoted. Alongside on the stove top when cooking meals in the family, was the dog's "food scraps soup" that was poured into the dog kibble mix for the dogs to eat so it really felt like they were a delight & apart of our family culture.
The ideal result for me in life is to be able to be independent enough & improve adult lives as well as many others as I can, like doing more volunteer work including at church(s), volunteer/work at the Goodwill, & get out of my history of falling through the cracks. I even wrote out my 5-year plan, I did a treatment plan, & I even had a crisis plan. I tithe 11%, & I donate each month. I have caregiver hours, & I have caregivers help me at my wonderful large home.
I always wanted my life to mean something & have bad stuff with my life "end with me," including with others around me or in creation all for that matter. Using my trust with animals such as dogs, I can balance over time my states of mind/equilibrium & also be excellent at it. How can I ever have a companion with me if I don't even have a service dog? So, the help I get makes me a better person to give back because after all I want to go above & beyond & held to it! I am an amazingly good godly man striving to be more holy with so much potential & love & I am a giver, an empath, a follower of the LORD. My LORD is my main sponsor who I seek to please, even in this letter. My Superpowers in autism that is also on my medical ID bracelet for care takers to help communicate with me on are:
a) receptive,
b) self-aware,
c) descriptive,
d) insightful,
e) far-sight,
f) highlight.
h) vigilance
i) patience
j) chivalrous
k) wisdom
These superpowers make me function higher than others on the spectrum. They riddle things out like receptive, + self-aware + routine = sky’s the limit!
By sponsoring me with such a kind grant, my sponsors help me complete the cycle which I laid out that I wish to complete & guarantee for example for the service dog sponsorship specifically, one service dog will have another good pack member and who will be spoiled, & much loved. This amazing sponsorship for me & any other sponsorship is very meaningful, serious, & in which I wish to promise my sponsors that it as a result, will one day create a high probability of tremendous change in the world including for those with autism & other people who have had it rough or show signs of needing help. That future would look like something of science in my end, about "happiness studies" & kinesiology in college to aid back society. These are life goals. I am a solid investment for the greater good.
I am a clean man, who was never convicted of a crime, who never did drugs including drinking, who does not/has not borrowed money from banks or lenders, who has never had a 9-5 job & its email experiences over a longer time span, & who never has had a credit card or stock or cryptocurrency in my name as an adult to the best of my knowledge; or how I have no owning any land property, or high valued assets. I am under the poverty line. I love upper class society & I like my persistence & chivalry in honor to in likeness to knights among the upper class, which just won me over long ago. I never could quite leave behind the normal man because of their incredible pressing nature. My mother who passed on that taste was a banker, she taught me financial responsibility general concepts, ethics, & some adulting ethics seen in the 20th century. My father taught me strength, insight, responsibility, values of people who can back it up in the ring or on the battlefield. He also taught being sober & in control when entering something like the ring, such as always thinking you can lose this, it just takes one lucky hit; rather than thinking I am the best, I will win, how can I not... & then have the air sucked out of you with a good hit in the solar plexus. It is a trigger for me to accept/ask for money from others who so freely give it, but I am looking at the scales here of my giving back more & so forth. I keep in mind the kindness done & where I am at & heading down the road. So, I have no real way of paying for a service dog on my own & then pay overtime with my fixed income. That is my problem. That is why I ask for a full grant/funding for a service dog, or any other forms of sponsorship requested, & why your donation matters. The place where I would get a service dog has readily available dogs, it is in my state, & it has off leash training. I would not be on a waiting list. But it is over 55k. I wish to honor your investment. Please give me that chance to honor you, & so many others down the line.

Thanks in advance,

-John Hollingsworth

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