I love what I do. I really feel that it's my mission. While some mainstream dating services adequately serve people with disabilities, staffers at DAWN and Dateable have welcomed many refugees from such businesses. It's still a new concept to some people, I think, that people with disabilities actually date. Neither service excludes nondisabled people as long as they're open to dating someone with a disability.
Some people approach the services with reservations about dating another person with a disability.
Wolf encourages clients to be honest with themselves and with her. I tell people before we even start, certainly the more open they are, the more referrals they'll get. Often, once clients get to know each other, disability becomes a nonissue, but can be an important common thread, Watson said. I think that's the common denominator. Everybody who joins has been through some type of rejection and they're looking for acceptance.