• Blog,  Dating

    A New Year! Do You Need Love Advice?

    January 21, 2017 /

    Happy 2017! I hope you are healthy and relatively happy. My blog has been around for awhile (since 1996!), and my FT job as executive director of Spinalpedia.com has kept me busy…but my goal this year is to post more. If anyone out there is still reading 😉 I would love to strike up the Dating On Wheels advice column again, so if you have a burning question about this complicated topic, please send it to tiffiny@beautyability.com. I have been lucky enough to find a great guy, but oh my my has it been a struggle. Dating with a disability is hard. Dating is hard. But never lose hope. Let’s…

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  • Active,  Blog,  General,  Love,  Research,  Tech

    Wheelchair Dating Advice Direct from the Source

    May 23, 2014 /

    Some very good + insightful wheelchair dating advice - how to date us, what to do & not to do - from three disabled folk. Chase, a young man with paraplegia, Sonja D., a woman with Lupus, and Tiffany P., a paraplegic from Staten Island, NY who has no problem telling it like it is. You'll like this one if Savage Love is your thing, all direct from SPINALpedia!

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  • Active,  Blog,  Kick Ass,  Love,  Videos

    Bring On the Sassy Wheelchair Ladies

    January 10, 2014 /

    Watch Brianna Scalesse, 19 and a T12 paraplegic, show off an amazing "wheelchair twerk," check out the hilarious Step Woodward's video on terrible pick-up lines men tell women in chairs and watch high school cutie Maria Monterrosa's light saber video where she goes over the best perks of being a wheelchair-user.

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  • Active,  Blog,  Love

    Dating on Wheels: Newly paralyzed chef stuck with woman he doesn’t like

    November 11, 2012 /

    Dear Tiffiny, I am a 27 year old chef and was recently involved in a motorcycle accident leaving me paralyzed from the chest down. I was really concerned that I would never date again and then in the hospital I met my current girlfriend and was really happy. It’s been 5 months since the accident and now I am kinda realizing that I don’t know if I really like this girl at all.

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  • Love

    9/26/12: Paralyzed race car driver ready to begin dating

    September 26, 2012 /

    Hey Tiffiny, I was injured on August 13, 2005 racing motorcycles in Canada by braking my back. I was only 12 at the time. That was a huge change in my life with being paralyzed after. Up till I was injured, I had 14 national championships. I was having the time of my life! In 2007 I was cleared to start racing again which was very good! By 2009 I had won another 3 championships racing go karts. In 2009 I started racing cars (kinda look like an IndyCar). In 2011 I was third in the Championship running with the best drivers in the U.S coming up the latter. This…

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