>We are a support and discussion community for people who are blind, visually impaired, those who work with the blind, and those who are just curious.

This is an open community, all are welcome.

We are a pretty small sub, and nowhere near the traffic that would warrant a separate sub.

I think most of the questions here posted in an effort to learn. Some of them are asked in a way that is perhaps a bit misguided, but I don't think they're ridiculous questions for the most part. Anyone who does ask purely ignorant questions for the sake of it should be dealt with on a case by case basis IMO.

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Let me ask everyone a question. How are we supposed to bridge the gap between the blind and the sighted if some of us are wielding big sticks and driving off the sighted every time they try to approach us. You can't have it both ways. You can't complain about the way you're treated but then treat others like shit. What'll end up happening is the people who have questions will grow reticent to post them here, and it may even deter them from doing whatever it is they were going to do.

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I would like to give some examples of ignorant questions and ways they could be phrased a bit differently to show the questioner does really want to learn rather than propagate stereotypes or show their ignorance. By the way, I did want to make it clear that I at least, see a difference between ignorance and willful ignorance. The latter being ignorance you have no desire to do anything about. Ignorance itself isn't a bad thing. It's more to do with how you approach dealing with it. Anyway, here's the examples.

Q. (bad) Who picks out your clothing? How do you dress yourself?

OK, this one asked this way is pretty offensive because it rather strongly hints that we're incapable of dressing ourselves. I count this in two ways. First, the actual mechanics of putting clothing on our bodies, and second, picking out pieces that go together.

Q. (good) HHow do you pick out what you're going to wear? How do you deal with colors when picking your outfit so everything matches?

Something along that vein would be good. It doesn't imply invalid status, or some form of incompetence. Plus, it just sounds more intelligent.

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Q. (bad) What are you doing out here? Are you lost? Where's your carer/assistant/attendant?

This one's offensive because it drips with condescension and some level of disdain. We didn't teleport out there on the streets. We didn't break out of a group home or asylum. We're quite able to travel, and it's an insult to demean us because \*you\* have it in your head that we're useless.

Q. (good) Do you need any help? Can I help you find something?

Anything like that will do. Though generally, unless you see the same blind person wandering around the area for a while, we generally will find someone and ask or help if we need it.

r/askblindpeople is a thing, but people seem to come here instead.

r/askblindpeople already exists.

I could see a separate sub for this being very useful. It would naturally filter out people who don't want to answer questions as well as providing both a space for sighted and blind folks to coexist, and one for blind folks to simply exist. Worth noting, op, that you don't need permission to create a separate subreddit.

That would get lots of traffic. As many people wonder how blonds do things.
OP checking your spelling, you wrote blond.