8 Things You Need To Know About Dating Disabled People

Love is love is love. It can give you the highest of highs, and sometimes it can be a little messy. Whether you’ve snuggled up to a disabled partner before or this article will pop your cherry in this regard, we’ve put together this handy guide to everything you need to know based on the hilarious newly released 5-minute rom-com movie "Cripfished" created for the 10th Anniversary Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, a filmmaking competition that gives teams of filmmakers with disabilities just five days to produce a completed film.

1. Some of us will date anyone (as long as they’re in our league, that is)

Yolanda: "I am out of everyone's league"

2. Others prefer to date fellow disabled people

Melissa Jennifer Gonzalez as Logan, a Latinx female presenting person with long straight black hair. Pink chat bubbles from Amy on the screen say "BTW, I just wanted to make sure you saw my profile says... I'm looking for someone disabled like me?"

Amy: "I'm looking for someone disabled like me"

3. We’re pros at finding solutions to life’s problems

Amy: "It's okay, I had my phone read it to me"

4. We can be super sweet

This Barbie is a good friend.

5. Or rotten no good liars

Logan pretends to be blind.

6. We’re most definitely not here for your pity

7. We can also just casually exist with our 25 Grammys because we’re Stevie Wonder

Clip of Logan, Amy, and the waitress at an outdoor restaurant table. / Via bit.ly

Clip from the movie Cripfished.

8. But the most important rule of dating someone with a disability? Disabled people are just looking for love like anyone else

Logan and Amy kiss.