05/04/2026
When you live with a chronic illness/disability, life can feel overwhelmingly clinical with the constant medical appointments, treatments, and symptom management. While Dateability centers the experiences of the disability/chronic illness community, we want to emphasize normalcy and neutrality and encourage people to comfortably connect without judgement 🧡
[Alt Text: Slide 1: A peach colored background with the Popsugar logo. The article headline reads, “What It’s Like to Date Amid a New Diagnosis” by Shahamat Uddin. An excerpt reads, “Her experience, however, eventually inspired her and her sister, Alexa Child, to start a dating app tailored for people living with chronic conditions, Dateability. “Something that I struggled with when realizing that I wanted to meet people with chronic illness or disabilities is that everything that was built for my community was super clinical,” Jacqueline says. “I would either have to meet someone at a doctor’s appointment or a support group, and that’s really not that fun for me. So I was like, let’s make this normal and just have it be so that there’s no shame attached.”
Slide 2: An excerpt reads, “The sisters launched Dateability four years ago and recently celebrated their first known wedding between two people who met on the app. They’ve prioritized giving the agency of disclosure to their users, allowing individuals to select from broad terms like “immunocompromised,’ “chronic illness,”
“permanent medical device,” and these tags show up on a user’s profile like religion, political views, or similar attributes would on traditional dating apps.” A black and white photo of the Dateability founders sitting back to back is below.]
