I don’t want to be all negative but I feel I should tell you my experiences so far....
I’ve had a few bfs (I’m 25f) and it all seems to be going well- until I mention my vision...
I’ve tried getting it out at the start (before the date or on the first date) but I’ve also waited for a few months

Nothing has worked so far 😂😅
They just kinda freak out tbh
But hopefully some day I’ll find a guy happy with me for who I am!

Good luck and all the best though!
Sorry for being all negative again...

You might be over thinking it. And if it did freak them out then that's on them. I suppose like you did, I would suggest mentioning it when it needs to be brought up, rather than just laying your cards on the table unprompted like a take it or leave it approach. Maybe they are, like many other people, thinking how is s/he capable of one thing we were doing but not the other thing we were doing. But they might mull it over or do a bit of googling and learn something new!

I think you addressed it when it needed to be addressed.
I think when you do tell someone you're going to be in a relationship with some context. I.e. I have poor vision so I can't drive, but I can still play video games with the right features/watch movies. Tell them how your vision might affect the relationship (I told my boyfriend I sometimes need help reading menus or subtitles for instance). It puts your vision into the context of the relationship. Maybe your partner is worried they can't support you, or doesn't know how this changes things for you/them.

The timing is up to you, and you can make as big or as little of a deal out of it as you like.

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Usually once we've arranged a date but before I meet them - a comment like "my sight isn't very good so you'll have to spot me not the other way around". But obviously that's different in the current situation where you might be waiting a lot longer before meeting in person.

I like to wait if I can, it helps eliminate any petty, shallow people though so thats something! When I was dating I met plenty of shallow people who I did not have to waste my time with and gave me the opportunity to meet my amazing spouse who didn't care at all when I explained it to him.

In the future, I would definitely be straight up with people. As sad as it is, some people DO have a problem with dating someone V.I. or blind and they have the right to know that you're V.I. right off the bat.

However, some people don't care about your vision impairment and can see you for more than someone who is V.I. these are the people you want to find and date.

When I met my boyfriend, I was straight up with him and told him that I was legally blind. He didn't mind it at all and saw me for more than my vision problems.

Good luck!

If someone can't accept my visual disability, too bad for them. Period. Don't play with me, I won't play with you. And if you got a problem with me, well, good fuckin day to you then.
I don't believe in all this beating around the bush stuff. Seeing how some people really are and how shallow they can be only made me more determined to be unapologetic.
I don't suggest waiting it out, for a few reasons, but most notably because it just makes things awkward.

I'm a university student so I meet a lot of people through school. That gives me an easy situation to tell them whenever they ask why I'm sitting at the very front. For the people that I've met online I generally tell them whenever we're just in the "get to know" each other phase. That's not just for potential partners either. I have the same approach for anyone new that I'm meeting.

I told my current bf (sighted) that I was blind very soon after we started talking, because we started talking as friends first rather than anything else. When making movie recommendations, the 'is this audio described' game would have become fun otherwise.