Having social anxiety and genuinely struggling with the world is one thing, and nobody reasonable is going to mock someone for that. What is worth examining is what happens when anxiety becomes a lifestyle that other people are expected to fund and accommodate indefinitely, including at events that have absolutely nothing to do with you. This is what happens when the emotional support dog stops being enough

The request was to bring online gaming friends from New Zealand to her mother’s wedding. Not her wedding, her mother’s wedding, held at a house that fits fifty people, with a guest list that already exists and includes people the bride has actually spoken to in real life. These New Zealand friends have never met the bride, have possibly never met the sister in person either, and were being proposed as replacements for actual family members who would otherwise have a seat because she needed support. To attend her mother’s wedding.