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Living with disability and illness can be difficult, especially when it comes to dating and relationships. The best advice I could ever give to another couple is to approach this as a team effort – after all, you’re both (or all!) dealing with the repercussions of flares and rough pain days. Together, you can do this.

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Things You Should Know

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Dating and Disability

A Latinx disabled woman and an Asian disabled woman chat and sit on a couch, both holding coffee mugs. An electric lightweight mobility scooter rests on the side.
Photo by Tojo Andrianarivo as part of Disabled and Here.

Keeping Up Your Relationship(s)

General

Apologizing

Distance & More

Cheating

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Photo by Zackary Drucker as part of Broadly’s Gender Spectrum Collection.

For Abled Partners

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On Specific Conditions

Note: Hans Asperger was a Nazi scientist who referred many children to the Aktion T4 project to be euthanized. The term "Asperger's" previously represented a specific type of autism. In light of his collusion, that term is being replaced by the autism label in most spaces. There are resources, such as books, released prior to this which have his name as a stand-in for this particular type of autism below.

General

PTSD

Anxiety

Social Anxiety

Panic Disorder

Substance Use Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

Depression

Schizoaffective Disorder

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