Many abasiophiliacs (also called DPW: devotees, pretenders, wannabes) feel a strong sense of guilt and shame from feeling unusual erotic pleasure from others misfortunes. They don’t want to enter a relationship with a crippled person just to satisfy their sex drive. Second best for them is to enter into relationships with others who share the same fantasies, or willing to role play. Some DPW’s occupy care-taker roles in hospitals, some collect disability-linked objects, and many are attracted to looking at photos of disabled people.