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How many disabled people do you even know personally?
Most people who have responded by saying they wouldn't date someone with a disability have responded based on misconceived notions of what people with various disabilities can and cannot do.
Rather than saying you wouldn't date someone with a disability because of X, Y, or Z--when X, Y, and Z are all inaccurate--maybe it's time to reevaluate your idea of how disabilities play out.
Folks, please watch the videos I posted on this thread. They show that people with disabilities can be independent, athletic, musical, sexual, and all things that at least one poster in the thread has assumed incorrectly.
Agreed, I've actually found disabled people to be MORE independent than non-disabled people.
They may not do things the same way, but they get stuff done!
I have to ask--to those who say they wouldn't date someone deaf/blind/in a wheelchair, what about us scares you? Is it the idea that we would be dependent upon you? I am very independent...I find a way to do pretty much everything on my own. Really the only thing I require assistance with is to fill out the occasional form and have someone read the occasional letter to me...nothing big. I cook and clean and get around just fine, and my friends who can't do those things have caregivers that get paid to cook and clean and help them with other things--they don't put those expectations on their dating partners. In fact the last time I lived with my partner-at-the-time, I was the one with two jobs despite deafness and blindness while she sat at home and did nothing. She was more dependent on me. So what is there to be afraid of? I honestly don't get it. Maybe I can get an able-bodied perspective because as someone with multiple disabilities, I just don't understand what the big deal is.
No. Disabled people are more inclined to be dependent and clingy than non-disabled individuals
What a load of BS! I've known a couple of disabled people and what struck me first was their independence and their desire to be independent, despite the hand they were dealt. Your post isn't just misinformed, it's cruel.
I know more then likey I will get flammed for this but in all honesty what is the point in being with someone who can't do/share the things you like to do? Sure it would be honorable to be with someone who had a disabilty. But when your looking for someone to settle down with you want someone who can do & share certain things with you. Yes, some people with disablities can do some things you would never expect them to be able to do. So sure it sounds great that some here would date someone with certain disablities but in all realty I think there are some we couldn't handle.
Well hopefully you got the point I was making in the first place. Most of the people don't want someone with a disability but will use a different reason to say this.
Yes, I can definitely pick up on the glaringableismthat is pervasive throughout this whole thread. So depressing!
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