I, like fellintobed, have no disabilites persay. But my exgirlfriend had a mental disability, she has schizophrenia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia if anyone that didnt know what that truly was) She told me straight out the gate that she has this mental problem. I loved her and it was something i wanted to help her with and or be there for her when she needed me.

We had to be very careful 'cause if she didnt take her meds then she would "switch" and if i was tied up and she switch that would probably be the end of me.. so we had to be very careful. Even if she was on her meds she would still sometimes switch. When she switched she didnt remember anything as the other person. Hard to believe? Yes. Was it real? Yes. Scary? Yes.

I never would have looked at her Schizophrenia as something that could hold her back, but she did. It is a mental handicap, or disability. A lot of people that didnt know her wouldnt be her friend becuase of the stuff she would do/say when she switched. *she had three other personalities, one was a male, who was very very crule and mean. Other was a child around the age of 5, pretty embarressing, loud, cries a lot, and the other was a male, who was quite and to himself, her as herself was outgoing, kind, nice, friendly, open nothing like the other personalities thats why people got scared of her*

We were D/s to an extent, was i scared that she would switch and maybe hurt me very badly when i was tied? Yes, but it very very rarly happened. I had a way out if it did, also. I never let her Schizophrenia hold the relationship and or friendship back, still to this day i dont hold back a friendship.

I know this isnt as serious as being physically handicapped, but i thought id chim in since i had some expierence here.