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Any "fluffies" (children identifying as cats) at your child's school?

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5475878237NC · 04/05/2024 13:03

I had no idea this was a thing until this week. Parents are fully supportive. Is this happening across the UK? Apparently they're being provided with a litter tray in a private room. I thought being allowed to wear ears and a tail was going beyond reasonable but the litter tray seems completely unhygienic and a step too far in role playing how they feel about their identity.

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afewtoomanychoices · 05/05/2024 20:09

Well there has been an ‘elf’ at my DD’s school!

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5475878237NC · 05/05/2024 21:01

I don't think I've been described as giddy since I met Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours about 25 years ago!

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Biafromapple · 10/08/2024 20:30

5475878237NC · 04/05/2024 13:03

I had no idea this was a thing until this week. Parents are fully supportive. Is this happening across the UK? Apparently they're being provided with a litter tray in a private room. I thought being allowed to wear ears and a tail was going beyond reasonable but the litter tray seems completely unhygienic and a step too far in role playing how they feel about their identity.

well is happening in York !

cabbageking · 10/08/2024 23:14

My understanding is it is a hoax that keeps surfacing and was disproved when it raised its head in the USA a couple of years ago.

Leafstamp · 11/08/2024 10:20

cabbageking · 10/08/2024 23:14

My understanding is it is a hoax that keeps surfacing and was disproved when it raised its head in the USA a couple of years ago.

The story of children using a litter tray in the classroom was shown to be a hoax I think. But the general phenomenon of children identifying as animals is very much happening.

I’m personally aware of two cases (different schools).

HoneyButterPopcorn · 11/08/2024 21:04

Friend's husband works with a 'cat' (young human woman who says she is a cat). Trendy media company. Not client facing, obviously.

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Mumwithbaggage · 12/08/2024 22:27

There were elves at the grammar school my dds went to and no doubt cats. Batshit.

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5475878237NC · 12/08/2024 23:49

I haven't heard any more on this since I last posted.

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namemane · 13/08/2024 09:01

cabbageking · 10/08/2024 23:14

My understanding is it is a hoax that keeps surfacing and was disproved when it raised its head in the USA a couple of years ago.

I read that this rumour comes out of a particularly US phenomenon- School Shootings.

I wish I could find the article but to give the gist of it.... Some classes keep a box of absorbent granules/cat litter in case there has to be a lockdown and children need the toilet.

So some have heard this, heard that some children like to pretend to be cats (just as some like to be horses, cars etc)

Put 2+2 together and got 5. Shouted their discovery so many times that it becomes a truth.

NowImNotDoingIt · 13/08/2024 12:13

5475878237NC · 12/08/2024 23:49

I haven't heard any more on this since I last posted.

Nah, really?

Dazlia · 24/01/2025 14:32

5475878237NC · 04/05/2024 13:03

I had no idea this was a thing until this week. Parents are fully supportive. Is this happening across the UK? Apparently they're being provided with a litter tray in a private room. I thought being allowed to wear ears and a tail was going beyond reasonable but the litter tray seems completely unhygienic and a step too far in role playing how they feel about their identity.

YOU are part of the problem, liek it or not. Your post implies that you think its ok for kids at school to 'role play how they feel about their identity'. If your child comes to you and says "i think im a cat" then ffs, you need to be telling them they arent, not pandering to this stupidity, its actually mental. Its like these parents raising their babies as "gender neutral" until they are old enough to make up their own mind???? Like wtf! That child is clearly going to grow up to be confused! Im done with all this nonsense people need to wake tf up

OneChirpyLurker · 15/12/2025 01:05

5475878237NC · 04/05/2024 13:03

I had no idea this was a thing until this week. Parents are fully supportive. Is this happening across the UK? Apparently they're being provided with a litter tray in a private room. I thought being allowed to wear ears and a tail was going beyond reasonable but the litter tray seems completely unhygienic and a step too far in role playing how they feel about their identity.

The ear and tail thing is ok (im a therian point of view) but the litter tray is a bit weird

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