Consider this,

You are using a dating site to find someone that might accept you.
Of all the 'potential' encounters in your area, only the few that are on this particular dating site are your pool of candidates.

Of that select few, only a small ratio might consider you a match, even without a disability.
So you extend your search to greater and greater distances which increases the ratio of potential matches but adds a distance problem to the equation.

That distance factor limits you from practical face to face encounters which builds the trust needed to establish a real relationship.

If you are comfortable with your condition, you might actually find potential matches inside your local demographics.
You will meet people when you interact in venues people frequent.

However, if you depend on dating sites to fulfill your quest, instead of natural interactions, you will get scammed, hurt and disappointed.
All which contribute to the imagined feeling that your handicap is affecting your results, which can lead to depression and desperation.

In other words, the more you put yourself out there, the better your chances. The trick is being able to put yourself out there with confidence.

Purely about the not seeing well...
There would be too many things you cannot share. For instance my paintings, drawing oracle cards, going for walks in nature and enjoying the colours, shapes, and nature in general.
Practical things would annoy me, like things always having to be in the exact same place.

Basically it asks a lot from the partner who can see and it limits their world and life as well.
For me personally it really wouldn't work. I'm very artistic, sensitive, and as such I'm very much into pretty things, colours and so on. None of these I could share with a man who can't see properly.

Apart from all that, I'd also like visual appreciation from my partner. To see his eyes light up when he sees me, him being able to tell me I look good or simply being able to ask him if something looks good. Whether a painting on the wall or something I want to wear.

I have found that people who have a disability attract other people who also do. Because they can relate to it, and not everyone can. They understand the life style and the challenges.

Many people don't

Many people would rather not start a relationship with a disabled person because of that and because maybe at their point in life they do not want the added responsibility. It is not a slant on the disabled. Depending on the disability care can be time consuming or frustrating.. for both. And many people don't want to go down that road.

I mean, I love kids.. but I don't want anymore. Does that make me wrong?

As for the girl in the Sudan... that is actually some skinny guy in a internet café in Nigeria.. with a western union office right down the street.

ALL of us are one health crisis or serious accident away from needing to be cared for.

I personally wouldn't want someone who I felt would bail when things got bad...as *I* wouldn't bail if *he* got sick/ injured/ disabled.

That's entirely different. That's the scenario where you are already in a relationship with someone and then they get a health issue.
Starting afresh with someone you don't yet love and aren't invested in with an issue / disability is nothing like that.
If I had a man and loved him and were in relationship and he lost his eye-sight I'd not leave him. It'd mean the relationship would change, but you talk, adept and so on.
But STARTING a new relationship, nope.
Bailing on someone is not the same as not looking for trouble in your life.

That is not what I said

I said starting a relationship. A loved one getting a disability is a totally different scenario.

That is not what I said

I said starting a relationship. A loved one getting a disability is a totally different scenario.

Sorry..Didn't see Crystals post.

Crystal is spot on...wise lady.

I did my caregiving already and wouldn't go looking for it again.

Online probably not the best venue to find a good. parnter! Try closer to home Go out meet people!

I would cross off Long distance communications and other Foriegn Countries.

'The best approach is NOT to insert yourself in our circle. Don't make eye contact with me as an "intro" option, don't make small talk with me when you have no reason to, don't presume that if I am scared of you I will make that fact clear. I'll likely seem just fine, but that's a learned reaction.'

Taken from an internet article this morning on the fear women have toward men in general. This fear makes it almost impossible for men to meet someone new in society. This seems to be the society women have built and will have to live with. Expect to be treated as you treat others!

This also helps to explain why I can chat with a married woman when her husband is nearby but can't with a single woman out in society. Maybe we need to go back to the idea of only addressing a single woman through some male that is her required escort in public!

Re: blindness..

I dated a blind guy for 18 months back in 89/90...

Didn't cause a problem..maybe because he lived in Canada, and they have better resources for that..

The disabilty didn't separate us...me not wanting him to be my "sponsor", which was what Canada required at the time when you wanted to move there..
I didn't want to obligate him to that...