Disability and Dating: Looking for Love
When I'm dating someone, I receive a lot of stares, misguided compliments, like how beautiful and it's so nice to see, which implies that my dates are doing me a service by dating me! Alex Reimers
Also Joining the conversation is Megan Walsh - researcher at Murdoch Children's Research Institute and experienced speech pathologist who specialises in working with people who use Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC). Megan discusses how people who use AAC are often excluded from romantic opportunities due to harmful misconceptions and infantilisation and offers insight into what needs to change to create a more inclusive dating world.
It's understanding that people with disabilities, including AAC users, can be and are people who can have great sex. There's so much that we can all learn from the way disabled people have sex and the way disabled people go about dating. Megan Walsh
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