[NFBSF] Leaving the national Federation of the blind

[mike at michaelhingson.com]

Jeanette,

It is distressing to hear that anyone had a bad experience at any of the agencies. Last Friday President Riccobono put out a policy statement about issues such as what you apparently experienced. Policy statements are one thing and actions, of course, are another.

Either way, the fact that you feel that LCB was a freeing experience is something that would suggest that rather than leaving the organization that gave you such a freeing time perhaps you might, and I suspect are already, raising an important issue by what you are saying here.

I know it is easy for me to say don't drop out because of one experience. Clearly you feel something very traumatic happened to you and none of us can totally fix that. However, you can help us all by staying in the NFB and improving it. We can talk more about this off list if you wish.


Best Regards,


Michael Hingson

-----Original Message-----
From: NFBSF On Behalf Of Jeanette Torres via NFBSF
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 10:23 AM
To: NFB of San Francisco, California List <nfbsf at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Jeanette Torres <jtorres3263 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NFBSF] Leaving the national Federation of the blind

One more thing before I unsubscribe. LCB is the most freeing experience I have ever had in my life so besides the student and the fact that LCB did nothing to remove the student I had a good experience at LCB.

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> On Dec 14, 2020, at 9:51 AM, Lisa Irving via NFBSF <nfbsf at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jeanette,
> 
> My name is Lisa Irving. I care about you and what you experienced. I 
> would like you to know that I am available to listen should you want 
> to vent or talk about your experiences at LCB. I am an LCB graduate. I 
> don't know what it's like to talk in your shoes and I did not go 
> through your exact experiences. I had my owne experiences at lcb. I'm 
> not sharing them in this email because I don't want to trigger you. My 
> point is, I'm hear for you and I definitely empathize. Also I would 
> like to invite you to consider speaking to a mental health 
> professional who is herself is visually impaired. She is not apart of 
> this organization. Should you want her contact information please feel free to contact me off list.
> 
> With healing compassion,
> 
> Lisa Irving
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBSF <nfbsf-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jeanette Torres 
> via NFBSF
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 2:44 AM
> To: nfbsf at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Jeanette Torres <jtorres3263 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NFBSF] Leaving the national Federation of the blind
> 
> Due to reading the stories of what has happened in the national 
> Federation of the blind and being triggered by something that happened 
> to me at LCB my first week there where my solution was for me to avoid 
> this student which I did for my entire training of nine months because 
> LCB did not do anything to remove the student and also because I was 
> treated like an outcast because of my NFb training inwhile I  was in 
> the national Federation of the blind in Florida, I have decided to leave the national Federation of the blind.
> Sent from my iPhone
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