Relationships
Disabled people want the same connection, intimacy, and family life as anyone else—and navigate them in a world full of assumptions about who gets to have relationships, sex, or children. This section centers disabled people’s own experiences across dating, family, parenting, and care, including the harder realities of control and abuse.
Why This Matters
Section titled “Why This Matters”Relationships are where some of the most damaging assumptions about disability play out: that disabled people are asexual, that they can’t or shouldn’t parent, that the person who provides care must also hold power. These pages name those dynamics honestly, affirm your right to connection on your own terms, and offer frameworks for boundaries, disclosure, and safety.
Pages in This Section
Section titled “Pages in This Section”Navigating attraction, dating, and partnership as a disabled person.
Frameworks for deciding what to share about your disability, with whom, and when.
Sexual health, pleasure, relationships, and reproductive choices as rights, not exceptions.
The right to have and raise children, and the experiences and expertise of disabled parents.
Guidance for raising disabled children, grounded in what disabled adults wish their parents had known.
Caregiving from multiple perspectives—people receiving care, family providing it, and the systems around both.
What happens when a partner or loved one is also your caregiver, and how to navigate the shift in power.
Recognizing controlling or abusive family dynamics that use disability as justification.
Why disabled people face higher rates of abuse, how to recognize it, and where to find safety.