[nabs-l] When NFB philosophy doesn't seem to work... advice?

[I. C. Bray]

Lilly,
I completely agree!!  The description of behavior  scratches a tender spot, 
but worries me too.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lillie Pennington" <lilliepennington at fuse.net>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] When NFB philosophy doesn't seem to work... advice?


:I hate to suggest this, but have you tried getting in touch with her 
parents or other authorities in her area? This is sort of an extreme option 
but you may need to take such actions.
:
: Sent from my iPhone
:
: > On Dec 27, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
: >
: > Hi,
: >
: > I tried mentioning the idea of getting help to her, and it made her
: > upset.  She can get really mad at me when she thinks that I'm not
: > taking her seriously or are avoiding talking to her.
: >
: > A lot of what she has told me about has been blindness stuff, but
: > there are some odd social tendencies that she has too.  She had some
: > issues with teachers in high school because she said they didn't take
: > her seriously and weren't treating her like everyone else, and she
: > also kept telling me that her "blind friends" that she made would stop
: > talking to her.  Often she would tell me this while she was crying, so
: > I couldn't understand what she was saying about the situation.  Then
: > she told me her parents were going to make her see someone.  This was
: > in my senior year of high school.  The last time I actually talked to
: > her, things seemed pretty good.  She was saying she got a boyfriend,
: > so I thought things would be going better.
: >
: > If she calls again I will offer her a help line number and see how
: > that goes, but I'm wondering if she will take that advice since she
: > was so opposed to therapy when I mentioned it to her in the past.
: >
: > I do think a lot of her problems stem from a combination of blindness
: > issues and some social quirks, but I feel in those areas I've done and
: > said all I know to.  I will try this again and see what she does.
: >
: >> On 12/27/13, Dave Webster <dwebster125 at gmail.com> wrote:
: >> Yea.  I still at times don't know how to deal with girls.  I have a
: >> tendency
: >> to move too fast at times when it comes to relationships.  I don't mean 
to
: >> embarrass you or anything but I also have a bit of a strange fettish 
which
: >> I've struggled with my whole life.  I've tried to tlak to therpists 
about
: >> it
: >> but I've noto been able to get them to help with it.  They don't want 
to
: >> touch it when it comes to talking about it.  So.
: >>
: >> -----Original Message-----
: >> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Beth 
Taurasi
: >> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 4:53 PM
: >> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
:
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