to think that children in your child's class don't identify as animals?

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inspired by the wearing a tail to school thread, I thought I'd see just how common or otherwise the whole furry/litter tray/identify as an animal thing really is.

Unreasonable = Yes, a child in my child's class does this.
Not Unreasonable = Don't be silly, never come across one in my life.

My DS told me another kid in his school (secondary) identifies as an ant.

How utterly ridiculous

This

Well, ants get squished on,he might want to choose a different animal 😁😀

Please... Don't let my son read this 😂

That's literally what I just said? I think it's normal to pretend to be an animal but now they have this terminology around it that wasn't there before. I don't encourage it but also not going to stop her playing. If it carries into secondary school then it might become a problem but I can't exactly stop her?

Nope, she doesn't have a phone or any social media at all. Only allowed kids youtube in very limited amounts. But she has an older stepsister on her dad's side and also some year 6 girls in year school she's friends with, and I think it's trickled down through them.

Nope not at all. No phone or access to Internet or YouTube. She learns it from school/step sister

It is I see the cat regularly walking home got ears or mask on and a tail. Also got class mates to call them by another name. 2nd child was not so serious. My DD told me about the litter tray campaign.

Madness!!!!!

There's a few in my child's class, y5. School had an assembly about it. DD finds it all quite amusing but said it doesn't bother her if that what make them happy.

😂, was just playing tho

I identify as a rich person. I cannot understand why people will not validate my choices and indulge my lifestyle. Just saying.

Yes, a child in my child's Y7 class does this. That child is my child.

She doesn't wear a tail to school because I won't get one. But does do the walking on all fours, howling, licking arms, nose-twitching and sniffing etc - and always has done, this was one of the things that was noted on her autism diagnosis long before she or I had ever heard the word therian. She doesn't have internet access herself - she got the terminology from another autistic girl the same age, and it has spread across a group of them like the bubonic plague. I'm really worried about how vulnerable she is to older people for whom it is a sexual fetish. The walking on all fours is actually an occupational therapy exercise we were shown when she was still a pre-schooler and is beneficial to autistic kids with low muscle tone and in need of proprioceptive input. I have taken youtube off the apps on the TV (although she was never interested in it anyway), she won't be getting a smart phone, and I've had a million conversations with her about the difference between pretending and reality. I've asked for an early review of her EHCP to add in to it that while it's fine for her to pretend to be a wolf, it is bad for her SEMH to retreat into a complete fantasy world and staff are not to indulge it. I've spoken to the senco already and she's in agreement.

This means that like the Scottish report a PP referenced my child's EHCP will make reference to therians and her belief that she's a wolf along with outcomes (because that's how EHCPs work), and if the Mail get hold of it I'm sure they'll do the same hatchet job on "documents that we have seen" that insinuates the school are encouraging it.

Still, it's great to know that when other parents see her howling, or licking her arms, or sniffing and twitching her nose - all things she has done when dysregulated since she was tiny - what they are thinking is that
I am to blame (thanks @DaisyChain505)
she should be taken off me (thanks @Tattletwat)
I let her have unsupervised tiktok (thanks @Fluufer)
I support it and I'm fucking mental (thanks @DelilahRay)

And before you protest that that's unfair because you didn't mean ME, you meant the parents who are encouraging it - you can't tell from looking which child has the encouraging parents and which doesn't because their behaviours look identical. I can guarantee if you saw us when DD is dysregulated you would be hoiking your judgey pants up so hard you'd wedgie your tonsils.

There was a girl in my DDs class who was a furry for a while in Y8, but now, in Y10, is 'normal' and none of the classmates remember it.

Not this again. I do not believe this happens, and that furthermore all these goady threads about it are just started so all the transphobes can bang on airing their prejudices.

What? I’m confused? She is validating it and she needs to teach and parent her child for the real world it’s disgusting! And the fact your child even know’s whatever it is they call it is on you! Literally strange and weird

DS7 occasionally likes to pretend he is a cat. He doesn’t think he is one though, he just likes being petted and told he is cute.

I also remember wanting to be a cat at a similar age - in my case I wanted that level of agility (did a lot of gymnastics). I also did not actually think I was a cat, or want to stop being a child. I just wanted to be able to jump 2 metres in the air and walk along the top of a fence.

That poster didn’t say it was a successful campaign. I can well imagine two slightly dramatic 14 year olds starting an earnest petition for a litter tray. The school is not going to say yes - you can’t leave a tray full of human shit in secondary school toilets.

Before the 1990's or thereabouts did anyone actually identify as anything other than human?

13/27 of the children in my class (Primary School, UKS2). We have actually put a ‘litter tray’ in one corner to accommodate, as have 2 others in our school.

Most classes have 3/4 children identifying.

I thought the litter tray thing was a made up spoof story? I'm alarmed if it's true. Wtf.

So there are children who use a litter tray in a classroom full of people? Who cleans it afterwards?

No child in any of our schools identifies as any animal. Asking friends who work in other settings about this and they all said the same.

Oh no! I visualise myself on a subtropical island everytime I buy a lottery ticket.

I must be a parrot. Damn it.

i must be a parrot. Damn it.