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Logan and tate ella frank6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Robbie spoke with Kim Stevens, a social worker assigned to assess students' emotional readiness for college, and told her how miserable he was. When Robbie was nine, he tested so well in math that David was able to enroll him in an early college program. ![]() David, meanwhile, was too fixated on achieving his dreams through his son to care how the boy was actually feeling, and punished any perceived weakness in Robbie by withholding his love. ![]() Unable to stand the pressure, Robbie fell into a deep depression and started having suicidal thoughts, but was too afraid of disappointing David to tell anyone. He was particularly obsessed with Robbie solving the Reimann Hypothesis, a mathematical equation so complex that the person who solved it would win a million dollar cash prize. He put the boy through a punishing study schedule, testing him nonstop and forcing him to memorize whole textbooks, all while forbidding him to play baseball, his favorite sport, because it "added no value" to his education. After Renee died in an accident, David took charge of Robbie's education, hoping to channel his own frustrated ambition through his son to make Robbie the success he never was. He and his wife Renee had a son, Robbie, who showed great intellectual promise at a young age. As a young man, he tried to distinguish himself by racing cars and playing guitar in a rock band, but neither pursuit won him the attention and praise he felt he deserved. David showed an aptitude for math and science as a child, but did not do well in school because of his undiagnosed dyslexia. ![]()
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