Why Apologize Because You Think I’m Sexy?

Let’s Not Marginalize Disabled Women

Victoria Ponte
2 min readDec 7, 2018

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It began with a message on a dating app in the usual, friendly way. We were trying to get to know each other. Through the course of the conversation, it came up that I have a minor disability from a long ago stroke.

It was here that he said he was sorry for thinking about me in a sexual way. First he just…

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Victoria Ponte

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