It has amazed me how many people on here have health problems or disabilities. Would you date somone with a disablilty? Uses a cane, wheelchair, has a limp, lisp, or other problem?

Pity comes due to being with a whinny person who talks non stop about their disability. Its the inner person you fall in love with not the shell.

If she was upbeat, possitive, a great person, kind, caring, compassionate, honest, had integrity, made you laugh, was genuine, a limp shouldn't matter at all!

I'm not talking vegitative state here, but an active, nice disabled person

I banged a chic in a wheel chair once. She was hot, just had a wheel chair. In fact, it was darn kinky cause she had this trapeze set up above her bed and stuff. Wow, that was fun.

I find it hard to wrap my brain around the fact that some people would turn down a date with someone simply and soley based on a physical disability. I know it happens and it happens a lot, I just have trouble understanding the concept. But then both of my last two partners had health issues that required minor accommodation.

I just take it for granted that by the time one hits my age, health issues are going to be a given.

There are so many more important things to be considered in finding good dates and life partners to worry about something like a physical impairment.

To be disabled is a mere inconvenience to those of us with spirit. Maybe I can't do the fast dances ... or lack the grace for ballrooms ... but a long, slow hug on the dance floor is a heartwarming experience. Mountain climbing and long humps through the boonies are out of the question ... but a slow hand-in-hand stroll along the boardwalk is togetherness. In slower motion ... every moment lasts longer.
Behind the steering wheel on a long drive? I'm in my element ... and I get to stop and enjoy the sights along the way more than I could when time was of the essence. I still feel, see, smell, hear and taste the same things ... possibly with a lot more gratitude than someone who has never experienced loss. I can appreciate life. Like most "disabled" folks, I focus on those things on which I am still able. To do anything less would be a handicap. Would I date who can experience life's pleasures in the same was as me? You bet!
Steve

I would not rule out a man with any disability, lost limbs, blind, deaf, wheelchair, as long as his mind was active and intact. If he could love me honestly and with kindness, why not. With my own disability of course lifting him or heavy duty would depend on someone else to help, but I'm not shallow enough to say I wouldn't see if we had the basis for love or a great friendship... to do so would be poking a pin in my own eyes.

It disheartens me reading this. It makes me feel like I sometimes do in the mall when using my elbow crutches because my leg hurts to bad to walk without them, when people either gwak and avoid, or simply won't make eye contact. I'm am no less who I am here or to anyone else who knows and loves me, because someone is unable to be open minded enough to accept me as I am. That is their disability and to me more glaring than my own.

I can't count the amount of emails I recieved here from men and women alike asking my opinion or advise on something. It has been amazing. Being honest in this thread about my disability to me isn't frightening in the least. In fact it is empowering.

I'd like to think that if I ever were that misfortunate to lose my body, that I would not expect my love to waste hers.

Hate to sound like a coldhearted botch, but we never know how we'll react in any given situation.

The nice thing is, whoever gets me, gets a great gal who knows herself inside out and likes what she is. Now, if the fates allow his path to cross mine one day, it will enhance my life not make it.