The popularity of Lifetime’s You on Netflix has prompted important conversations about stalking. YA writer Kathleen Hale’s forthcoming essay collection, Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker, uses her own history of self-described “light stalking” as a selling point. Public opinion too often treats stalking as a trolling behavior that has no real consequence on the victim’s life, experts say. Even the “nuisance of stalking as it affects the victim can and should be sympathetically depicted,” a forensic psychiatrist says.”]