Disabled Man Sick of Strangers Asking If His Able-bodied Girlfriend is His Nurse

A 22-year-old man in a wheelchair, goes on a date with his beautiful girlfriend and all they hear from strangers is ‘Is that your nurse?’ Does this mean that a disabled person is unfit to date an able-bodied person? Well, here’s the story of Shane Burcaw, who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a genetic disorder that causes the nerve cells responsible for controlling his body’s muscle to deteriorate – And has been in a wheelchair since he was three-years-old.

Luckily, Burcaw, has been in a healthy relationship with Anna Reinalda for months, but every time they go out together, strangers have a hard time processing at first glance, that they are a couple – And on numerous occasions people have asked Burcaw if his able-bodied girlfriend Anna Reinalda was his nurse or his sister.
Burcaw, who because of his condition, once believed he wasn’t worthy of romantic affection, in his blog ‘Laughing at My Nightmare’ said:

‘Then college came and my brain opened up to the real truth. I met some spectacular people who helped me shake the notion that love was only for the physically-abled,’
‘Sure, I can’t hold hands in the traditional sense, but we make it work. To be fair, our fingers look like a catastrophic train wreck once they are intertwined in the precise position that I can manage. I can’t pick her up in my car, but so what? She enjoys driving and so we make it work,’ he writes with humor.
Not only can disabled people in relationships have a strong bond, he believes the union may be even better than relationships between two able-bodied people.
‘Today, I live with the firm belief that an able/disabled relationship can be even more satisfying than your average romance.

Love truly knows no bound!