# Dating/Befriending the Disabled
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 24, 2007, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750 "2007-08-24T13:14:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750/21 "2007-08-24T22:41:00Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Interesting. I’ve starting chatting with a blind guy on the bus to work.
Something must be going around. 🙂
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:eek: Something that makes you go blind?
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750/22 "2007-08-25T08:00:03Z")
> [@](#):
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> When she’s walking down the street, she doesn’t stop or dwell on objects like a sighted person would. She’s all business. She also is often running/jogging, which is normally a head nod, smile, and a quick hello. But I feel like just shouting hello at someone who may or may not know I’m there might spook them or freak them out a bit.
I think this is what makes your situation difficult. Even when people can see you and make eye contact and exchange smiles and all of that, it’s kind of awkward to start talking to a stranger who’s jogging. Would be for me, anyway. I don’t have any advice to offer concerning this, but maybe someone else does 🙂
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750/23 "2007-08-25T08:27:58Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Damnit! Every time I see that thread title, I read that second word as “Beheading”…it’s getting kinda disturbing…
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Well, you still clicked on it? What advice would _you_ give regarding befriending/beheading the disabled?
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### Author:  [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750/24 "2007-08-25T08:29:47Z")
Start out with exclamations of genuine encouragement and position yourself as she jogs by. Say, “Hi!” on the first day. Catch her on the second day, and say “Wow , what a beautiful Weimeraner.” , third day a little more flirty, “Looking Good!”
She is probably jogging for health and Fitness reasons like any other woman. She knows she looks good… why not let her know she’s a beautiful woman?
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750/25 "2007-08-25T11:17:45Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth]
FWIW, her dog is a Visla or Weirmeraner, which might be a good opening, “What kind of dog is that, a Visla?” (spelling?) It is a beautiful dog.
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Yeah, or howabout:
You: “Hey you don’t often see poodles as guide dogs! What’s his name?”
Her: 😕 “They told me he’s a Vizsla”
You: “Oh no, it looks like you’ve been sucked in by the dress-poodles-up-as-vizslas scam.”
…or maybe not…
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750/26 "2007-08-25T13:05:38Z")
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”]
Yeah, or howabout:
You: “Hey you don’t often see poodles as guide dogs! What’s his name?”
Her: 😕 “They told me he’s a Vizsla”
You: “Oh no, it looks like you’ve been sucked in by the dress-poodles-up-as-vizslas scam.”
…or maybe not…
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Love it!
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### Author:  [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-befriending-the-disabled/416750/27 "2007-08-25T14:29:17Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew]
Catch her on the second day, and say “Wow , what a beautiful Weimeraner.”
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“If I said you had a beautiful doggy, would you hold it against me?”
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