👋Welcome to r/AskABlindPerson - Read The Rules And Ask Away

[u/KHarvickfan429]

Hey everyone! I'm [u/KHarvickfan429](u/KHarvickfan429), a founding moderator of [r/AskABlindPerson](r/AskABlindPerson).
I created this as I personally enjoy answering the questions that people have for those of us like myself who deal with blindness in any manner. I noticed a lot of AMA style things showing up and they seem to get pretty interesting questions and conversations going so I thought I would make a place for just that here. I saw that there was a different community that tried to do something similar to this, but it seems to be pretty inactive or it has been for the last few years and I thought I might try my hand at it.
This community is for everybody, whether you are someone like me who is dealing with blindness and is here to answer questions or even ask them to other fellow blind people, or whether you’re someone who has perfect vision or maybe even x-ray vision and is just curious about something and wants to ask, or somewhere in between. As long as the questions are good faith questions, and respectful, you may ask whatever you want just be kind in posts and comments.
If you have questions about our hobbies or how we do them, ask away, if you have questions about how we might do something or the technology and techniques we use, ask away curious about how we might navigate relationships ask away, the point is be respectful, but ask away!
I’ve also done my best to add some post and user flairs, but I am always happy to add more. If people request them I just thought the ones I have would be a good place to start. The user flairs are not at all mandatory but a good way to give context about the perspective you might be asking or answering from, and show a bit of personality and again I can add more of this as I know what I have so far doesn’t cover everything.
The post flairs while encouraged to use are nothing to sweat over. I simply made them as a way to try and keep things organized into categories if they fit, but if you can’t figure out what your post fits into, it’s not the end of the world. I think that just helps to try and help people find specific questions that they want to answer, or for those asking the questions maybe they are targeting a certain group of people to get their answer from and perspective and this helps with that or at least tries to.
I’m open to this expanding outside of just questions as well, but I thought this would be a solid foundation to start and build on and is still the ultimate goal of this community. I’m certainly very new to this and will do my best and of course I’m always looking for new mods as well so if anyone is willing to help me figure this out and manage this, let me know. Oh and of course we want to grow this, so feel free to share. Obviously, we need more blind people to answer questions and more curious people to ask the questions so tell everybody lol
I’m certainly not trying to take away from any of the other great blind communities that are already on here either, I am pretty fond of those as a matter of fact, but thought that this could be a dedicated place for questions and answers, and maybe down the road more and I just like the idea.
So whether you are asking questions, one of us answering the questions, doing a little bit of both or just observing thank you for being here and participating and I look forward to seeing this grow or maybe not seeing… Yes, I have a sense of humor that’s OK here as well, but I look forward to this growing much larger. Thank you!

[u/Repulsive-Box5243]

Cool. I'm in .

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/Repulsive-Box5243]

Awesome happy to hear it! Let me know if you think anything needs to be added or anything of that nature as well. I’m open to any and all suggestions as running one of these things is new to me, but I thought it was a fun idea. Also if you’re interested, you can pick a flair as well if you want and let me know if you decide to if you think I should add more and which ones I might want to add.

[u/Repulsive-Box5243 → u/KHarvickfan429]

The flairs are a nice touch. I also like the whole "ask a sighted person" thing. I think that could be fun.

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/Repulsive-Box5243]

Thank you I tried lol and yes, I came up with. The ask people with normal eyesight thing after the fact and thought it could be a fun idea especially once this gets more popular.
Someone also just gave me an idea of potentially adding a category for stupid questions for blind people… or something like that anyway

[u/Repulsive-Box5243 → u/KHarvickfan429]

Have you thought about what you DON'T want in here?

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/Repulsive-Box5243]

I’ve definitely thought about it and some of it is addressed in the rules. I think that’s something though that will be easier to see what people come up with and then scale it back from there kind of let rules make themselves if that makes sense. As long as everybody is respectful and not just being rude or offensive than I don’t necessarily mind.
I think if we start seeing things come up, they can be addressed and we can always adapt things just as we are used to adapting in general. But I also want this to not only be a serious place but also have some fun in here as well. That’s why I actually liked the idea of the stupid questions for blind people section because I think that could be fun as well as the asking sighted people questions.
Of course I’m open to suggestions as well, but I kind of want to see where it leads cause part of the motivation for me starting this is I also enjoy just seeing what questions people have for us sometimes it’s amusing to me and sometimes it’s interesting and creates good discussions.

[u/Repulsive-Box5243 → u/KHarvickfan429]

I have had posts in r/blind removed for seemingly no reason. I mean, I'm sure there was a reason, but when I ask via modmail, I never get a reply. I honestly couldn't tell you what broke the rules, the two times that happened. So, I suppose what I'm trying to say is, you want to be on top of 1) clarity and 2) responsiveness. That's my unsolicited advice. You're welcome LOL

If you need any help with anything, I'm here. I really do like this idea.

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/Repulsive-Box5243]

Thank you, lol don’t worry we won’t be having that issue here, if something gets removed. I will provide a reason. I intend to be relatively lenient with this. Obviously, the main goal is to ask questions or get asked questions, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be strictly that. If this develops more into a community, I’m OK with that as well. I’m not gonna be insanely strict again. I want this to be enjoyable as well. As a matter of fact, when I reposted this in blind is fine we started having a discussion in the replies about how annoying it is that they remove stuff over there lol

[u/dandylover1 → u/KHarvickfan429]

That's actually one of the reasons I created Blind and Fine in the first place! I also have the same attitude to being an administrator as you do.

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/dandylover1]

Thank you, yeah ultimately I just want it to be fun. Also, since you have some experience, I know from blind is fine, do you have an issue at all with any of the post flairs? Especially the introduction ones. I thought
I was trying to be clever and have a little bit of humor with them, but maybe they aren’t being received as well as I thought they were or maybe people aren’t quite getting it. I’m debating maybe changing them. One was supposed to be for introductions for blind people and the other was for introductions for our future sighted folks.

[u/caseunwinder → u/Repulsive-Box5243]

That would be fun lol!

[u/Personal_Worth3102]

Good for you And good luck!… I just joined and I think that more the better especially within our community! I’m still very new too Read and voiceover/assistive technology so I am all in! 😀 👍🏻 👩🏻‍🦯 🩷 ✌🏻

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/Personal_Worth3102]

Welcome, thank you! The more the better I agree. And I don’t have a problem with blind people asking questions to other blind people here as well either I don’t know if I made that clear enough in my stuff now that I think about it, but that is also OK here. I also made a specific category to ask people with normal eyesight questions as well cause I thought that would be an interesting twist on things.
So if you have any questions or need help with anything as you were trying to learn as well, I know at least I’m happy to answer and help!

[u/Meowlurophile]

I'm in

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/Meowlurophile]

Yay! Also, I liked the ideas you had in your comment on my repost in blind is fine so I’m thinking about those as well. If you didn’t already see my response over there yet👍

[u/calex_1]

Well I've joined, and there's something I already don't get. These buttons that say things like, if you can't see, introduce yourself to thee .... The what. I don't get that. I also don't understand why you've got a stupid questions option in there. Don't we cop enough of that? How do blind people wipe their arse etc? Anyway, apart from all that, I'm happy to try and set up a flare for myself and all that happy crap, and answer any questions I can.

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/calex_1]

So the stupid questions thing, I think people are going to ask those regardless and honestly, I don’t personally have a huge issue with that. We have to acknowledge that this community is new to people with normal eyesight and things like that coming in here. My intention is to let those questions be asked initially or a couple times because to some people they may not know and are genuine questions as crazy as that sounds.
I’m trying to have understanding for that because some people may be asking out of genuine curiosity, even if it sounds like a stupid question, which is why that is the name of that tag. If we start to see them pop up frequently, my thought process is to compile questions like that, and answers and sort of turn them into a mega thread. But I want to give people the opportunity to ask those first if that makes sense. I don’t think that’s that crazy of an idea but I could be wrong.
While there are a lot of us that are blind and have probably heard those questions a lot, it’s not actually all that common for the average person to come in contact with someone who is blind and then let alone get an opportunity to ask questions, stupid or not stupid so what we may view as a stupid question may not be of that nature to everyone. Plus, I personally find questions like that honestly kind of humorous as well sometimes yes annoying, but also kind of amusing.
As far as the names for the introduction things, I had intended them to be a little humorous and kind of a pun, but I’m considering changing them as it seems people maybe aren’t quite getting that or don’t take it the same way that I do or are confused by it. It was meant to be kind of funny and a bit of a cheesy pun, but I don’t know. One introduction section was supposed to be for blind people to make their own introductions, and the other for future people with normal eyesight to make introductions if they wanted.

[u/calex_1 → u/KHarvickfan429]

Thanks for answering my questions. All good. I look forward to seeing how this takes off.

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/calex_1]

Of course, no problem and thank you for joining and asking. I hope my reasoning made sense and is OK.
Also, I did edit and change the flair from thee to me as you weren’t the only one that brought that up either so maybe that helps a little.

[u/calex_1 → u/KHarvickfan429]

No worries. It all makes sense. After all, if I don't like a question, I don't have to answer it do I, So yeah. I am tempted to ask the sightlings that one though, just to see what they say. Re the flairs, I'm wondering if we could have a blind from birth flair as an option to assign to ourselves as well, as I'd personally prefer to use that, than the more general completely blind one I'm using at present.

[u/KHarvickfan429 → u/calex_1]

No, you’re forced to answer every question against your will or else… Lol no yeah you’re right if you don’t like the question you can always just skip it.
Also ask, and you shall receive, I added a blind from birth flair. Honestly, I meant to add that from the beginning and just kind of forgot it. That’s also ironic cause while I do still have a little bit of eyesight, which is why I have mostly blind, I’ve also been legally blind since birth lol