Please read Google on Azia Kim and Elizabeth Okazaki before reading further to get a sense of this American form of hikikomori. Also search for "hikikomori" here.
The recent departure of Azia Kim, who hung out at Stanford University for 8 months brought into focus another freeloader who had been at the university for 4 years.
Apparently Elizabeth Okazaki lived at Varian for all those years while administrators there tolerated her presence.
It seems that about four years Okazaki couldn't scam students at apartment buildings as their "property manager". So, in a sense she is homeless.
Kim's ability to lie and still fake being a student also makes her slightly off, but probably with less social isolation than experienced by Okazaki.
Both women may have had a form of hikikomori, given that neither of them actually took classes.
IMHO both women must feel it to be nice to be near intelligent people at university, given how tolerant university students are about such a thing.
To now isolate and thus stigmatize them further by creating doubts about their mental stability is to threaten their ability to integrate into society without hardship.
In a sense, the media frenzy over both women may expose both of them to future victimization, both by the State and other people.
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