Dating a handicapped girl

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Published February 19, H ope Ivy hopeivy12 gives her answer to this question below:. I am not sure if not wanting to date a disabled person makes you a bad person, but maybe just a closed minded one. I think having individual preferences about the type of person you want to date is completely expected. However, grouping the largest minority of people in the world together and saying you wouldn't date any of them, is unrealistic. The disabled community is the most diverse; we cover all genders, cultures, abilities, and passions. You will find someone in our community that fits your preferences.

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Disabled people are speaking up ahead of Valentine's Day about the awkwardness they go through when dating. To coincide with the most romantic day of the year, 14 February, the disability charity Scope has launched a new campaign called Kiss Awkward Goodbye , external. The charity has found that eight out of 10 people in Britain have never invited a disabled person to a social occasion and half have never started a conversation with someone disabled. It is encouraging people with disabilities to tell the story of their most awkward dates in order to help any confusions that might exist.

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Elderly disable people are usually shocked when they discover that disable people actually go on dates! The reason is until recent time, the culture regarded impaired individuals as asexual beings. Handicapped people are also humans and they too desire love and companionship like other people. Handicapped people had difficulty locating possible mates before and those that had serious disabilities had minimal opportunity for finding prospective mates.

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Dating with a disability often comes with unique trials and tribulations. Although disabilities fall on a wide spectrum, society tends to group all people with disabilities under one category. Much of the difficulty people face when dating with a disability is overcoming these stereotypes. Many people with disabilities also fear dating due to the lack of accessible locations to attend a date. As a result of these challenges, people with disabilities tend to start dating much later in life than their non-disabled peers do, and their rate of marriage is half the national average in the U.

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