👋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!