Ok but probably during school, blows my theory up. ( or perhaps it was just wishful thinking on my prt ) that "summertime sadness" and "Ive got my eye on you", could have been about not seeing her school crush in the summer time.
I dont envy the schools position, there were some flags. The drawings of squiggly lines maddi said was chaos or anxiety attacks over feeling, over stimulated. They do the responsible thing, get maddi extra supports in school, counsellor, and inform the parents. ( jenn)
Seems like a lot of these issues were attributed to having ADHD even one of the teachers said she was behind , sometimes didnt finish her work and had low grades. she thought maddi felt overwhelmed because she couldnt keep up with the work. How are they supposed to know more? and without any other indicators they can only do so much without being intrusive. ( in this situation)
ADHD and trauma overlap so much.
I can just imagine that all of it was treated as ADHD, and Stephan played right along. ( although hes probably too dumb to know about trauma and ADHD)