Dating people with other disabilities

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Have you ever dated other people with a disability other than yours?

1. LD learning disable.

2. MR borderline.

3. Deaf

I'm open to date any woman with a disabilities because it might be easier than trying to date a NT.

Most people have issues. With NTs their issues are mostly invisible, like bad character under their surfaces. But disabilities usually aren't the important stuff. Disabled people are often better under their surfaces than you expect.

The disability WOULD inform and underpin my opinion of them. Like I would look for how it affected them growing up and it would help me understand them.

Edited to add: OK I will add that my AS husband had a learning disability. Instead of going into economics or some finance field and getting a PhD, he went into engineering and got a bachelor's degree. He had a great deal of difficulty reading and writing, and this was a kind of learning disability that made it difficult for him to study, and held him back. So that would mean I am "yes" on (1).

Well I l have a female friend who has a hearing impairment. She can hear with hearing aids though not well when they are out. We both agree that we are good friends and maybe more sometime later down the road. I'm just focus on our friendship at moment and nothing more.

What about dating a fellow Aspie?

^Tim,

There are plenty of those threads already. So this thread is more around other disabilities outside the Autism Spectrum in general.

I have not dated any woman who has not got AS or a disabled woman. The only females that tend to find me attractive are those with an IQ of below 70 which in this case being those with learning difficulties and including Down syndrome people. I have never actually dated anyone with that condition but other learning difficulties, yes. No I do not find disabled people especially understanding as they can just be aspiphobe as a person who claims to have none. There is more chance of a cat becoming a playwright than of me dating a woman in this social group no matter how well my grooming and personal hygiene. In this case I no longer see the majority social group as a source of decent company like that acutally completely the opposite. Socially it has been a complete waste of time being with this group that to my displeasure I have been surrounded by since July 15th 1977 no love there

One of my exes had ADHD and another had AS (the one with AS was a long-distance relationship though). The other two were "normal," but they were probably the biggest a**holes of them all. Well, the ADHD guy was kinda an ass too.
I don't think there's anything "wrong" with my boyfriend. He was in the learning disabled classes when he was in school, and he is kinda "eccentric" (in a good way), but I don't really see anything wrong with him. I could be biased though.

Never dated anyone with other disabilities but have been in love with such a person. Never felt it would have been an issue if we did get together, on the contrary I felt like we had a deep mutual understanding. Of course when the other party feels only friendship, then things won't happen romantically, regardless of what disability one has or doesn't have.

My first boyfriend had ADHD and anxiety and possibly schizophrenia.

My second boyfriend had AS, PTSD, incontinence, back injury, learning disability, and he was misdiagnosed with ADHD and some teachers were smart enough to know he didn't truely have it because he wasn't failing all his subjects.

My current one has brain damage, epilepsy, learning disabilities, visual spatial problems, and flat feet. Lot of his problems were caused by brain damage. His poor sense of direction could be part of it too.