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I am a member of the disabled community. According to doctors I wasn't even supposed to live, there are occasions when sometimes I think certain people would consider it better if I didn't. Dating is one of those difficult tasks that is compounded by physical limitations. The truth is each one of you reading this article is disabled in one way or another. Perhaps you have some sort of mental disability. Perhaps you suffered emotional abuse as a child. Maybe your struggling with an inability to keep your checkbook balanced, or your having difficulty trying to keep your house clean. These are all lack of abilities in one form or another. My disability confines me to a wheelchair. However that does not define my identity. Although, trying to tell that to the dating community is very difficult. I never might run a marathon, or dance at my wedding in the traditional sense. But sometimes I wonder if that physical limitation might not be a blessing. Sure it is challenging to face everyday knowing that I am different, especially when Love is something that I personally seek more than anything in the world. The problem is that many people only see the chair and the limitations that my body unfortunately possesses. They don't see the person inside or the condition.

This is a global problem, I'm not writing this article simply for myself. I think that the disabled community gets completely underestimated when it comes to the ability that they have to be successful boyfriends, husbands and fathers. Just because someone has physical imperfections, does not mean that their heart is not pure. There are tying is that I am thankful for my limitations, because it forces me to have to look harder for that true spirit of the person that will exactly understand that I deserve to be excepted just as I am. My body may not appear perfect, I'm blind in one eye to so I might not see you perfectly, but trust me when the time is right I'll see who you are. I will see that the ability to be a successful person is not limited by the condition of my physical body. Of my personal being. I may never be a model, because I can't exercise as much as I should, and so I'll always carry a little bit of extra weight. If that makes me, imperfect then what that means is simply I'm just like the rest of the world.

There may days I become frustrated, at the indifference of the global society in which we live. It's not because I feel bad for myself, but because I feel bad for anyone who has had an unexpected

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