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

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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.

I'd love to be a cat when I see mine sleeping on a comfy bed in the middle of the day and get fed as soon as I shout but bloody hell...

There are furries at my dc’s secondary school. But no litter tray as far as I know.
they start from year 8

There are a million reasons why a primary aged child might be dressed as a cat, wanting to actually be a cat isn't one of them.

Unfortunately I don't think it's very uncommon for older primary aged children to have fairly unrestricted access to the internet. I don't think it's beyond the bounds of possibility that children are aware of the idea of 'identifying as' an animal, and I imagine it might appeal. I've heard Y7 and Y8 pupils in schools talking about furries on quite a few occasions, in more than one school. One might hope that primary school children would be unaware of the fetish side of the furries thing. Judging by the sniggering by the Y7s and 7s, I'd say they were definitely not unaware. Not much is hidden from kids these days.

You've seen them yourself?

How does it manifest at school?

Well that makes sense. There was mention of wanting facilities in a private room and it's going to be provided going forward. Maybe/hopefully it won't be and that part isn't reflective of what is happening at the coalface?

I think most people on here can't have a teen.

Only one school has been named as having this "issue". It was actually something completely different, and the school has publicly said they never had a child identifying as an animal.

Yes- and people swear that schools aren't allowed to call it Christmas anymore. Also utter bollocks.

i had a man in an Adult Education class swear this was true at his kids' school, until i was going to ring the school concerned then it was 'just a rumour'.

You are spreading this crap. Just stop it.

Yes, I thought this whole thing was a press invention and exaggerated?

I will hand over the deeds of my house to anyone who can prove that a school is providing litter trays.

What's special about yr8?

Well they should then be treated like a cat. No money, no phones, kitekat and dreamies for dinner and their arse booted out at bed time.

No one has said that have they?

Evidence?

Somehow I think your deeds are safe.

No idea. Was just giving an age guide

Furries refers to people with a sexual fetish whereby you are aroused by either taking on the persona and dressing as a furry animal or by engaging in sexual acts with a person dressed as a furry animal (in a quick nutshell, I'm sure there are more nuances that I'm not covering).

Are you really sure that primary schools are supporting and allowing this to take place within their premises?

Incidentally, isn't the current trend for cat headbands to do with Gabby's Dollhouse?

Of course it is. However, like most urban myths, it spreads, and people actually believe it.

Who has indicated this age guide?

No I’ve not seen them - dcs secondary has a large catchment so you would never see all the children. One of them is an ex friend of my dc so known well enough to be talked about.
There’s a group of them they walk around on all fours hissing at people and scratching at anyone who gets close

My dc and their friends when I was asking questions after overhearing a conversation

@Maireas the tabloids didn't help.

They took a story of an argument between two GC teens and their teacher, where one of the teens mentioned identifying as a cat in defence of her arguments and the headline became "Girls punished/threatened/namecalled/etc by teacher in defence of pupil identifying as a cat". Then everyone fucking ran with it as a fact. Then we had even more headlines of warnings, outrage and attention seekers. Like the Michaela school head who "knows" it's happening, obviously not in her school, and it's because parents do baby led weaning rather than just putting food in front of them and expecting them to eat it. It fucking sold, it made money, it got attention, it got free publicity. That's why it became a thing.

The school stated there is no pupil current or past identifying as an animal, but that didn't make the headlines.

And asking about the sexual nature of this just feels wrong. I do know they are all biologically girls although not all of them still identify as that - unsure how that fits with furries etc.

This is clearly bullshit.

No school is giving up a room for one child to use or providing a litter tray 🙄

There are children in my daughter’s school (ys5&6) who went through a phase as identifying as cats. No litter tray use but the children took the concept quite seriously, it wasn’t a game to them.

A year on and it seems to be less of a thing, at least amongst the children I know.