Katie Meyer, despite a finite 22 year presence in this world, your effect is infinite and irrevocable, and your spirit continues in this dimension as well as that of our ultimate destiny.
If you think you might have ADHD, get tested, because RSD, or Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria comes with it. It is an intense emotional pain and it can be unbearable and debilitating . That email must've felt like a rejection (perceived rather than real) from the school she loved and likely caused an RSD episode. The problem is the intense feeling would've passed. An ADHD coach/mentor would've been a huge help in talking her down. Anyone of the mind that there were no red flags just needs to peruse her TikTok videos. She was mentioning symptoms all throughout. She was struggling in an accounting class and said she didn't understand numbers as a language and another one not knowing her rights from her lefts. That could be dyscalculia, a learning disability that a lot of lefthanders have and where there is one there is usually another. She was a smart girl, but maybe she wasn't feeling smart and perfection was getting harder to attain. That GPA took work. Even the NCAA game incidents were potentially ADHD related. She displayed bravado in interviews, but it's an ADHD masking technique and makes sense in light of her use of the hashtag fakeittillumakeit. Everything she dealt with had a name and a cause. I just don't know if she knew it and that's what's sad. If you have impulsivity, can't sit still, focus issues, can't motivate yourself, emotional sensitivity, interrupt conversations, lose things or you're always late to things, get tested. Because of her, I myself have decided to put my ADHD to use as a coach/mentor. If I can save one kid, it'll be worth it. RIP bby girl
@@famf6234 I do hope so and I hope that schools take a real hard look at how they deal with disciplinary letters going forward. This youngster was a marvelous bundle of complexities and it's our loss as well.
Sylvia Plath was a perfectionist in college and attempted suicide before her senior year, despite being ranked #1 academically in her class after 3 years. In her diary, she berated herself for how lazy she was that summer, for not learning shorthand or publishing anything good, etc. Her self-talk was harsh & critical. I suspect Katie's was too. Plus, I hear Katie's parents were strict and set high standards for her, as Plath's mother did for Sylvia. The newspaper said Stanford refused to pay the settlement Meyer's parents demanded in a wrongful death suit, so the case will proceed to trial now. Stanford will claim they did nothing objective to make an ordinary student commit suicide and likely their lawyers will put the blame elsewhere, on her parents or on Katie.
@@DexterHaven I believe her self talk was critical. Go watch her Be the Mentality on RU-vid and you will hear just the opposite about her parents. They gave the girls everything. But a running theme in every one of her interviews is being told she wasn't good enough. She has also been told she was annoying, obnoxious and loud. She had high expectations for herself most likely rooted in not being good enough. She only mentioned in one interview that she worked really really hard to achieve her grades and she didn't consider herself academically gifted. When your parents crow about your achievements it makes very hard then to say I'm not doing as well as you think I am. You also don't suddenly at 22 have no understanding of numbers as a language. Stanford should never have brought these charges. Instead the two should've sat down and worked it out between them. As far as Sylvia Platt I believe she had Major Depressive Disorder or clinical depression both highly heritage. I appreciate that you didn't come here to attack her because so many others have and she's more than one lapse in judgement.
