Disability: The Ultimate Turn-off?

I think it's a tough call. It all depends on how serious the illness/disability, the relationship between the persons, and how much the not disabled person can deal with. For me personally, blindness is something I imagine I can handle, but if it was something like MS or sickle-cell, I don't think I could deal.

I think a lot about disabilities and relationships has to do with how the person with the disability is a affected socially, whether they have the ability and confidence be social. There are some disabilities that make this a lot more difficult than others. Since I'm not as familiar as I should be with how blindness affects daily living, but it's something where there are probably a fair number of people willing to adapt their lifestyle to accommodate. @Xueli If you don't mind answering, why do you feel like you couldn't deal with someone who has MS or sickle-cell? I'm just wondering because both of these conditions have a wide variety of severity where you may not even know the person has it.

@drmario for sickle-cell, I don't think I can handle someone being in that kind of pain and not being able to do anything about it, and coupled with the relatively short lifespan is something that I don't imagine myself being able to deal with well. I knew someone who's wife had advanced MS and it was a slow, wasting kind of death. Just terminal stuff, especially slow terminal stuff, I don't think I can handle. I'm not saying I would treat people who have such diseases poorly but I don't estimate myself highly in that area of strength of being able to deal in a way that they would deserve

@Xueli That's a fair outlook. Sometimes because I intentionally put myself in a position where things like that occur it's not my first mode of thought. Unfortunately, so many terminal diseases have similar effect.

I kind of have the same opinion as xueli. I'm too emphatic to be with someone with something as serious as a terminal disease, cause I would have to die with them or not at all. that aside there are plenty of people who actually have a fetish for handicapaple people. I remember reading several articles about it on sankaku complex, there's even a dating simulation called disability girls or something. Your true love will accept you for who you are don't give up! Ganbatte-ne!! ⌒.⌒

i know a guy who knows a girl who's boyfriend is in a wheelchair and no it's not a turn-off for kind-hearted people for the most-part