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What Makes A Mate Ideal |  Disabled dating servces |  Disabled dating Horror Stories |  Are the rules any different for dating disabled persons from the general rules for dating? If you are dating someone who uses a wheelchair for example, are there courtesies you need to extend that you might not need to extend to the individual under normal circumstances?

Mostly, the same rules apply to dating disabled singles as apply to dating non-disabled singles; but in particular situations some considerations become inportant. For example, a lady out on a date with a gentleman who is wheelchair bound cannot expect that the wheelchair bound gentleman should extend to her those Victorian courtesies of opening doors for her etc. That might seem obvious, but sometimes we become too self-absorbed to see the obvious. Or we become so concerned about not treating our disabled date any differently than we would anyone else, that we go a little overboard with our agenda of trying to reassure them that we don't see anything different about them. That is not to say a person with a disability is different from one without. Disabled men and women are in fact no different from their able-bodied counterparts. However, their disability is a fact; and it does make a difference if someone is in a wheelchair how you handle the situation such as knowing when and if an offer of assistance is appropriate.

The fact is, some allowances have to be made when out on a date with someone who has a disability. These allowances of course vary with the disability and such factors as whether our disabled date has mobility issues, sight impairments, hearing impairments etc. We don't want to make an issue of the disablity of course, but we also don't want to try so hard to act like it is not there that we fail to recognize when we should stand back and hold a door open.

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