Figuring out the right time to tell someone about a chronic condition is delicate, but there are some things you can do to make the conversation easier.
As a sort of catch-all term for a host of both visible and invisible conditions, disability can refer to any type of chronic impairment that causes someone's mind or body to work outside what’s typically expected—so anything from depression to lupus to cerebral palsy. No two conditions or individual experiences are the same, so all disabilities come with their own host of unique challenges—especially when it comes to dating and letting someone know what exactly they might be signing up for.
Online and in my career, I’m openly autistic, but when it comes to romance, I tend to have in-depth discussions about my autism with partners only on a need-to-know basis. However, the internet reveals my disability status after a simple search of my name, so I either have to initiate the autism conversation early on, or pray that whoever I’m out to dinner with mentions it because they Googled me and are excited to have a conversation about it with me.
Emma Sothern, who has hair loss and blogs as Lady Alopecia, but didn’t always feel confident living with her condition. She has been with her partner for 9 years, but initially hid her hair loss from him with head scarves and wigs She says once she told him, his support following the disclosure helped her accept her alopecia.
The candor works. “Most guys have been receptive to that, as was my boyfriend when I told him,” but Gelassi acknowledges disability biases exist. “Every now and then you will get someone who is just like, ‘Sorry, not into it’ and you just have to move on,” he says. “Why bother wasting your time on someone who won't love you for all of you, disability and all, you know?”
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