Again, purely speculation and opinion based, don't know these people and I am more than likely wrong. Again, I understand they have fucked up views and I'm not endorsing but I do try to see the best in people when I talk about them.
Whitney-She is tied with Esther for my favorite of the bunch. Her life struggles and the many phases she has been through give her a very relatable quality. She comes across very grounded. At first, I think she was desperate for the approval of the whole big Bates machine after all the instability of her youth (FWIW, I've seen other people say and I believe that she was not removed from her parents by CPS but was probably placed with another family in her church due to "rebellious" behaviostrained relationship with parents. That doesn't let her parents off the hook but I do think it's worth mentioning.) But in recent years she's really come into her own and it's been great to see. I think she and Zach have a beautiful relationship. She also seems like a very loving and doting mother who truly wanted a large family vs. being pushed into it like her SILs. (Which makes sense because she wasn't raised in a fertility cult like they were.) She doesn't act like her life is perfect (cough Erin) but she doesn't spend a bunch of time bitching about her kids and how annoying they are on social media (which annoys the hell out of me when I see people do it tbh. I'm like, your kids are going to see this one day.) Of course she isn't perfect. Y'all know I don't like the Mommy Influencer schtick and and being so deeply connected to Abeka is....a choice. It's nice that her kids socialize with other children, play sports, etc., but they could really flourish in a public or private school. That being said, she does seem like she's pretty involved in their homeschooling process, in comparison to Alyssa who just sticks them in front of the computer or hands them worksheets. Overall Whitney comes across as a warm, funny and genuine woman.
Brandon-I've gone back and forth on him. First I thought he was alright, if a bit tightly wound, then I thought he was a controlling weirdo, and recently I've come back around to sort of liking him again. A lot of my change in opinion comes to down to the Keilens' recent video chronicling their infertility journey. He has been so supportive of her and sensitive to her needs and feelings during all this. The fact that he told her "Go to God and tell Him how you truly feel" when she said she was doubting her faith said a lot to me. I know it's still a religious response, but he could've given the stock answer of "Just believe harder and don't be ungrateful to a God who's done so much for you." It's like he actually wanted her to be comforted. And the fact that he has been so supportive tells me that he loves Michaela for herself, not for her womb. I feel sorry for him as well because you can tell he really wants to be a father. When he was talking about Eden and he said that he said to God, "Give her to me" it broke my freaking heart. He would have loved that little girl so much. Of course he has many flaws, chief among them being producing material for IBLP. That is really really Not Good. But I've come to the conclusion that he is more like Michaela than I thought: A gentle, sensitive person who truly cares about other people but is deeply enmeshed with toxic cult beliefs. I think if he tried his hand at a secular career, he could be successful; I could see him illustrating children's books.
Chad-I used to really like Chad for all his romantic gestures, but lately he's been everything I dislike about Brandon amplified and without many of Brandon's redeeming qualities. Well, maybe that is oversimplifying. But I swear, something happened to Chad when all that boutique/Carlin drama went down. It was like he was like "wait, I'M the headship here" and he cracked the fuck down. All of a sudden the family was headed to Florida, and boy did he make sure they got there come hell or high water. And in Florida, Chad has all the power. He's straight up said he wants to keep his daughters in dresses/skirts only. The whole Paine Florida Farm Era has just been off-putting as hell. His has this strange affect now. I will say, he has been extraordinarily helpful to the Bates and anyone around him when they needed help with anything construction related (or anything period-bro was the family barber for a while.) I think he is a very loyal man and actually follows his own moral compass very closely. I think he actually loves his family deeply-its just in his mind, control=love.
Tiffany-I actually like Tiffany. There, I said it. She comes across very sweet and like an amazing cheerleadehype woman. People call her a kiss ass who's trying to get in good with the Bates, and there's probably some truth to that but I'm also inclined to believe that that's just her natural personality. If you look at her pre-Lawson insta posts, that's just how she talks about people. The fact that she pays special attention to people like Callie, who often get overlooked, is a very kind thing in my eyes. I also have sympathy for her conflicting emotions during a rainbow pregnancy. I actually think her and Lawson are pretty happy-certainly not the greatest love story ever told, but they care for each other. She does have Toxic Positivity vibes though-everyone is so happy and loves each other sooooo much. Fighting? What's a fight? She lives in a bit of a fantasy world. Also her connections to institutions like Liberty University is 😬. That being said, I think she is going to love this baby to the point of smothering them lol.
Esther-If Esther has zero stans I'm dead. I jest, but she is soooo refreshing for a fundie wife. She is who she is and she's not apologizing to anybody for it. What matters to her are her man, her kids, and her happiness. And I love that. She did NOT settle and waited for a true love match who dotes on and adores her. Another rare quality in a fundie woman-she knows her worth. She is an attentive mother who clearly knows her child very well. She never kissed Kelly's ring. In a world of women who tie themselves into knots desperately hoping for approval, it's truly a breath of fresh air.
John-😐. That basically sums up my feelings on John. He's just such a 1950s father-his only responsibility is providing financial security, his wife does all the "women's work" of childcare, cooking, cleaning, etc. He's only interested in his son while his daughters bore him. He prioritizes time with his buddies over time with his family. It's not that he doesn't love them-I'm sure he does. His approach to family life is just one that should have died out 50 years ago.
Bobby-Not too hot on him either. For God's sake give your poor wife a break. If the cheating thing is true (and there's no hard evidence so I'm not claiming it is), then he's a dirtbag. But even if it isn't, it really feels like he's clipped Tori's wings. She lost some of her spark when she married him which is tragic. Personality wise he's cardboard. He's white bread. He just doesn't stick out to me.
Lydia-She's alright. I actually feel sorry for her, having a husband who will publicly state he has "the final say" in decisions about HER life. The rhetoric she spouts about her immigration case is stupid, but while I scoff at it I also have sympathy for her because she had no say in it originally. She was only 10 years old when she came here, and now she has an entire life in the US complete with an American-born husband and child. So I understand her desire to stay. But the pretenses on which her family is here are plainly ridiculous. And they are MAD hypocritical for going on about how mean the government is being to them while continuing to shit all over POC who are fleeing dire poverty and genuine tyranny. Personality wise she does seem pretty nice though. And she is quite the doting mom. It's clear Ryker is her world. I also have a lot of sympathy for the trauma of her miscarriage and I think it's cool that she is (was?) a photographer.
Evan-He actually seems quite friendly and warm, but he can be so freaking obnoxious and fame hungry. I remember when Zade was born he was immediately caught up in making instagram reels. Like bro can you breathe without filming something on your phone. Just enjoy the moment for once. I think he is even more gung ho about the family vlogging thing than Carlin. He wanted an off-ramp out of being an electrician and that was it. I think he loves Carlin a lot but also makes a lot of impulsive decisions and seems weirdly immature for a father of two (they are two peas in a pod that way lol.) He is just always, always filming and it irks me so bad. However he does seem very involved in the day to day childcare which is nice.
Kelton-Dawg IDK how to feel. I'll say this: There are a lot of things about Kelton that I actually respect. He feels like an actual adult. He runs a businesss very competently and is not completely reliant on social media for a living. He is bonded with his children and he makes sure his wife has proper medical care. He actually takes life seriously and doesn't treat it like some 24/7 Youtube lark A La Evan or Lawson. But of course there is the downside. I know there's a lot of controversy about how his relationship with Josie started, and while I don't think I have the authority to label it, bottom line is it was fucking weird. And the posts about his 2-year-old daughter's purity....Stop It. Get Some Help. I think his mom's death screwed him up big time and he just did not know how to act for a while.
Travis-He's like a more tolerable version of Evan to me. He's still got that over-the-top YouTuber persona but I feel like it is tempered by more rationality and self-awareness. He seems to have a naturally lighthearted personality. People used to say he was mean but I never saw that at all. Maybe it's because we're both from New Jersey. That's probably why he comes across as much more "normal" in his affect than other fundies do to me. I'm interested to see how this whole touring business goes. I'm glad he seems like a pretty chill father since growing up under the yoke of Daddy and Granddaddy Clark sounds fucking scary.
Emerson-I really don't know that much about her. She seems sweet but she also co-signed on the Target post which is blech. Overall I think marrying someone like her-a public school girl from a smaller and much more mainstream family-was a great thing for Jackson though. Maybe their kids will be the first ones in the Bates fam to have a shot at attending public school. I know Florida public schools are barely a step above wisdom booklets but hopefully they'll move lol.

Entry 1: Hello orb-school friends! I am a grade of C, which obviously means Coolio! That also makes it the 2nd highest grade, other than A for awesome! I also got a non-evil burger with fries for lunch. It tastes like 1 penny meat and 5 cent potatoes. Heck, I even saw some of the fries with green spots!
Entry 2: I got bullied by the rude one, named Eric Jimbleton (AKA Stack). He gave me 7 wedgies in a row! That was very sad, and it also stings A LOT! Yeowch!
Entry 3: The bully (mentally) died. I did not kill them, but he actually had Tier-6 IQ cancer. It makes you mentally dumb, and it also makes you speak in a weird dialect called orbgrish. (like orbglish but off). He is currently braindead, but he can still use the rest of his body. He now does "web design", but the sites look like this and he has 100 clients...welp. Hoping for the best.
Entry 4: My history teacher decided to play the toastedcherries orb video as a part of our history lecture!!! Hooray!!!! Ther was something weird though in my worksheet. I got a question...it said "Hello. I am stack's grandpa. I have decided to possess this worksheet so you will get an F. Do you agree?". The options were "yes or yes". I decided to circle "or". That caused me to get an A+ on the test while everyone else managed to get an F on it. I feel like a pro!
Entry 5: I was eating non-evil pepperoni pizza, but then...SOMEONE WAS ABOUT TO ORBNAP Terry from Redland! Thankfully, a guard saved Terry, but I remember that so much to the point of where I put a little device in my hand that makes it so I can't get orbnapped. (it costs 500 dollars).
Entry 6: My school decided to send someone to speak about how drugs are very uncoolio. It was...Gumby? Ok, it was more like some dude in a gumby costume. His voice was also deep, but he explained it because of him being a drug addict and smoking 15 cigarettes per day. That made me very sad...AND THEN THE SCHOOL PLAYED THE AFRO CIRCUS SONG FROM MADAGASCAR 3, WHILE THE HRs WORE RAINBOW AFROS. That felt very disrespectful to the gumby costume dude.
Entry 7: I decided to meet the dude in the Gumby costume. His name was Cire TimbleJon. He says that he remembers when he met me, 4 days ago. He says that liking gumby 24/7 helps him get over the addiction. He also likes Mr. Bill, but he doesn't have any Mr. Bill costumes. I said, "You're Eric Jimbleton, duh!". The gumby dude then ran away screaming "NANANANANA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!".
Entry 8: I decided to check Eric's main portfolio site again, and the homepage only showed a line of text saying, "You have been IP blocked from [REDACTED] for 5 days].". I decided to do the Konami code like if this was a outdated pop culture reference, and I managed to get back into the site. What I saw may shock you for the rest of your days! (which will be a lot BTW).
Entry 9: It said "Hello. I am Eric. I decided to do something very funny and troll a school. The first thing I did was buy a gumby costume off of Alibaba. The 2nd thing I did was buy a voice deepener. I put them together, and I made my costume. I told the school that I had IQ cancer before this (which was a lie) before, so I was sure that I could lie again. They believed me, n=and then I showed up at the assembly. Everyone was crying when I was talking about my "cancer". To this day, I feel proud about how I made the other students feel :D".
Entry 10 (the final one!): After seeing this post, I decided to send it to the orberville police department for online craziness. They instantly arrested Eric and gave him 10 years in prison for fraud. The police also arrested some of the HRs for giving students seemingly impossible work (like my history teacher). The moral of today's story: Orb Games are for everyone!

Thank you for being here. This list provides some of my favorite resources. Feel free to DM me if you're looking for more support.
First, take a moment to breathe: https://www.calm.com/breathe
24/7 Hotlines

• Crisis Text Line: Need to talk? Text HOME to 741741 Crisis Counselors are there 24/7
• Peer-Run Warm Line: This is a 24/7 line where you can talk to someone and receive support from a peer or view more local resources. Visit the link or you can call 855-845-7415
• Suicide Hotline: 24/7, free, confidential crisis support for callers having thoughts of suicide, and friends and family worried about loved ones. You can also call 415-499-1100
• 988: The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free, and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.
• Youth-specific services (voice/text/chat/email) from the Boys' Town National Hotline.
• Parental Stress Line: Provides a 24-hour helpline for parents who need to discuss issues related to their children. Translators are available to support all languages.
• SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders. Call 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

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Anxiety & Stress

• The Anxiety and Depression Association of America promotes prevention, treatment, and support for anxiety, depression, stress, suicide, and co-occurring disorders.
• HelpGuide provides evidence-based articles, self-help tools, and readings for 21 topics for teens, adults, parents, and the elderly (Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing approved).
• Recovery Dharma Provides addiction recovery support through the practice of Buddhist teachings and meditations via both in-person and online meetings. Support is for any addictive behavior (substance use or process addictions like codependency, relationships, or any obsessive or habitual pattern that creates suffering).
• Mass Shooting and Violence Resources Offers information and specific strategies to support children who have faced trauma, with links to trauma recovery resources
• Greater Good in Action Provides a list of practices for mindfulness, self-compassion, forgiveness, parenting, happiness, gratitude, stress relief, and more.
• Habitica Provides a free habit-building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. With in-game rewards and punishments to motivate you to complete tasks in your life.
• Grounding Techniques
• 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique: The 54321 PDF walks you through grounding exercises to find your cool calm.
• 75 Coping Skills is a PDF that contains a variety of coping techniques to use when your go-to coping skills aren't working anymore.
• Anxiety Coping Skills Guide: This PDF offers different options for coping skills to work through anxiety.
• Grounding: Create Personal Calm Educates and puts into practice the use of grounding techniques during a heated moment.
• Anger
• Anger Diary is an activity that helps us reflect on our response to anger and prevent future outbursts.
• Anger Management Helpguide: The Anger Management Helpguide is a website that provides techniques to help with anger management and expressing feelings.
• Meditation / Relaxing
• Dartmouth Relaxation Downloads provide downloadable audio files that guide you through relaxation, mindfulness, and meditation exercises.
• GGAP, curated by UC Berkeley, offers over 80 practices for growing self-compassion, mindfulness, happiness, coping with stress, etc.
• Pixel Thoughts is a website that offers an interactive, 60-second meditation tool to communicate worries and release bothersome thoughts
• Worksheets
• This PDF offers a worksheet for those struggling with anxiety and exaggerating their problems, by addressing irrational thoughts.
• Decatastrophizing Offers a worksheet for those struggling with anxiety and exaggerating their problems, by addressing irrational thoughts.
• Distress Tolerance is a PDF that teaches you how to handle and accept situations that are out of your control.

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Grief

• Carson’s Village Supports individuals who suddenly lost a loved one by making burial arrangements, a timeline of events, a resource library, live support, a family web page, and more.
• DIY Doula Provides information for caring for oneself before, during, and after an abortion or miscarriage.
• Glow in the Woods Support Offers a space for mothers and fathers who have experienced a miscarriage or infertility issues to share and grieve their loss. Additional info for third parties to support friends who suffer a loss.
• Help Guide Provides evidence-based articles, self-help tools, and readings for 21 topics for teens, adults, parents, and the elderly (Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing approved).
• Moyer Foundation Provides resources for children and families coping with grief and addiction. Includes information about free camps for kids and teens affected by these issues.
• The National Alliance for Grieving Children Provides information on supporting children through grief, including a national database of grief support programs, camps, and community resources.
• Postpartum Support International Provides information about postpartum life and complications, including the loss of a child, and other related struggles.
• Rainbow Bridge Grief support community with forums and memorials for those mourning the loss of a pet.
• SAVE Informative & Advocacy Provides support groups for suicide loss survivors, as well as resources about suicide and finding help for yourself or others.
• Smiles and Tears Provides an interactive way to record memories, send gifts, and write thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Also offers tips on how to manage feelings associated with grief.
• The Compassionate Friends Provides support for family members who have lost a child at any age. Offers local and virtual chapter meetings. (Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing approved)
• The Dougy Center Provides information on grieving and ways to find local support groups, especially for children and teens and their families.
• Wendt Center for Loss and Healing Provides information and resources for people who have experienced loss, terminal illness, abuse, or other trauma. (Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing approved)
• What's Your Grief Promotes grief education, exploration, and expression in both practical and creative ways including brochures, webinars, a podcast, and booklets.

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PTSD

• PTSD Coach provides people with PTSD with information, treatment options, symptom tracking, and coping skills.
• The National Center for PTSD provides articles about PTSD: how and why it occurs, its symptoms, and ways to cope with it. Also provides information for third-party individuals looking to support a loved one with PTSD.

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Depression

• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance provides support, education, and resources to improve the lives of people with depression and bipolar disorder as well as support and resources for family, friends, and professionals.
• Half of Us offers information on a wide variety of struggles that young people face and connects students with resources to decrease stigma and encourage healthy dialogue.
• Heads Up Guys offers informative resources for men with depression and third-party friends and family who want to support them.
• Stopping Stupid Thoughts is a PDF that offers an activity for coping with and conquering negative thoughts.
• Postpartum Depression supports families affected by postpartum depression, as well as provides education, local services, and online support groups.
• Postpartum Support International provides information about postpartum life and complications, including the loss of a child, and other related struggles.
• Connect2Affect: For Elderly Adults - Provides resources that meet the needs of Elderly adults who are isolated or lonely, by building social connections in the form of social activities, volunteering, learning, wellness, etc. Resources regarding transportation, money, food, and more are also available.

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Therapy

• https://findtreatment.gov/ - the confidential and anonymous resource for persons seeking treatment for mental and substance use disorders in the United States and its territories.
• DBT Travel Guide is an app where users can track feelings and actions in a diary and use folders with DBT skills and mindfulness guides:
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dialexis.dgtcoach&hl=en_US&gl=US
• iOS: https://apple.co/3Tx2mGL
• CBT-i Coach is an app for people using CBT techniques and who are dealing with insomnia. Can be used with a healthcare provider or on its own:
• ios: https://apple.co/3ChY3Zf
• android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.va.mobilehealth.ncptsd.cbti&hl=en_US&gl=US
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches people strategies to help them live their best and most productive lives. This website offers a free, self-paced DBT.
• Open Counseling is a website that provides a directory of local and affordable counseling. They also have virtual options.
• (OPC) Open Path Collective is a directory of low-cost options for in-person & online therapy; the site has a one-time lifetime membership fee or services <$80.
• Loveland Therapy Fund provides financial assistance to Black women and girls seeking therapy within the US using an application process.
• Bloom offers support and courses designed by survivors, allies, and mental health professionals to support survivors of abuse.
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network Offers a directory of Queer and Trans therapists of color, as well as a mental health fund for assisting Queer and Trans people of color pay for their treatment.
• Therapy for Latinx Provides a directory for Latinx folks to find culturally attuned and inclusive therapists.

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Eating and Body Image

• Eating Disorders Anonymous Offers online and live communities who support each other in their struggle to recover from eating disorders.12-step style.
• Half of Us Offers information on a wide variety of struggles that young people face and connects students with resources to decrease stigma and encourage healthy dialogue.
• The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa & Associated Disorders Supports and educates individuals struggling with eating disorders and their families. (Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing approved)
• The National Alliance for Eating Disorders The National Alliance for Eating Disorders provides a free therapist-staffed helpline and interactive online referral database, as well as many free, weekly, therapist-led (virtual and in-person) support groups.
• The National Eating Disorder Association Offers forums, support groups, and free screenings to determine if an individual with an eating disorder should seek professional help
• Recovery Dharma Provides addiction recovery support through the practice of Buddhist teachings and meditations via both in-person and online meetings. Support is for any addictive behavior (substance use or process addictions like codependency, eating disorders, or any obsessive or habitual pattern that creates suffering).
• Recovery Record Supports recovery and tracks progress for people with eating disorders by providing self-monitoring, goals, coping tactics, meal planning, rewards and affirmations, and connection.

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Self-Harm

• Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery Provides distraction techniques and alternative coping skills for dealing with self-harm. (Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing approved)
• Help Guide on Cutting and Self-Harm provides information on cutting and self-harm, including identifying triggers, finding new coping techniques, and how to support a loved one who cuts or self-harms.

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Misc.

• Hearing Voices Network: USA Helps to find local support groups for those hearing voices.
• International OCD Foundation Connects individuals affected by OCD and related disorders to support, information, and resources to live full and productive lives.

I've maintained a very detailed tracker for 3-4 years, which I also post in the Facebook group where I'm an admin (and it might be easier to access there).

• HERE IS THE TRACKER LINK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EYO_ijyWoFNCtDfLHDxHmy6LsXPXuRHi/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103376513072661292889&rtpof=true&sd=true
• Multiple tabs to see and many crosslinks between them!!
• DOWNLOAD THE FILE and then you can edit it for your own personal use.
• The file works better on a laptop/desktop than on phones

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I've seen many other trackers and over time have added more and more (and more!) detail to this one. Kind of a super spreadsheet of many, many resources.
This is something I'll re-post once per update and that update will fall toward the end of my 2-3 dozen tasks I perform after each Beta release.

• Also, yes I know some of the images aren't showing unless you download it. I'm slowly working on fixing that. It just falls down far on the priority list.
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Last Updated 4.6.2024 (through Version 61.2.0 Content)
Update includes (1) standard 60.0 & 61.0 related changes (updates to summary tab; new emoji info; franchise mission tag updates on each tab; group collections; updates to columns about most recent winnable time for exclusives on gold/story/rainbow/villain/crystal/platinum tabs; order introduced tab); (2) corrected error that said Abby Park was a gold exclusive emoji (she is not); and (3) various other formatting/typos to work on consistency....I did not update the mission tag recommendation page (will do that next time updating the tracker)
REMINDER: Snake JafaGenie JafaVanessa/Young Mim/Yzma Kitty/Winter Cruella/The Witch/Dragon Maleficent, Amethyst Ursula's formulas are NOT errors. They are a story emoji with a villain leveling up progression (1-2-3-5-7)
Any other feature requests? Still working on history of how frequently exclusives have returned to the game
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There are separate tabs for silver, gold, story, rainbow, villain, group, and series tracking! Columns that describe when an emoji is an exclusive, if you can win it from an item car prize, and when rainbow/villains will be in your card collection box. Use the filters at the top of the columns to sort how you want!
With this much content there are bound to be some errors. I know this updated file isn't perfect! If you see typos, math formulas broken, emojis out of order, etc., comment and I will update periodically. I'll also update the template as soon as I can after each major content release.
As reminder, the typical progression for leveling most emojis is Silver (1-2-5), Gold/Most Rainbows/Most Story (1-1-2-5-10), and Villains (1-2-3-5-7)
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If you have a prior version, you can either retype in all your personal game status content after downloading the new version OR you can carefully cut and paste the ENTIRE ROW (or text block on the series and group tabs) needed and paste in exactly the same location on your current worksheet.
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TLDR: I might have SDAM. Memories are mostly based on inferences, journals, or what my parents tell me. I have some specific memories, but they might not be accurate. I struggle to recall certain memories, like crushes or specific books I've read. My earliest memory is from age 8, but it could have happened later. I have some memories from different grades, but they are not very detailed or vivid. Dreams seem as real as memories. The memories I do have may not have been remembered in chronological order. I hoard things to help trigger memories. Cleaning and re-reading journals sometimes brings back forgotten memories, but they are not very clear. I remember more in the periods I journaled more. It's becoming an existential crisis for me.
I was originally was going to comment this, but it strayed far away from the original
This is something which I am still trying to learn about as someone who thinks they have SDAM. I know all cases are self-diagnosis, just haven't brought it up to therapist, and don't want to jump to conclusions, even after hearing about SDAM for a few months. Wanted this disclaimer.
I feel like my "memories" are either inferences based on known facts, journals I read afterwards, or from parents. I used to do a thing I was young where I would journal about previous journals events, which I don't even have access too,.... but I'm grateful I did that. Could be a sign I did the reviews due to forgetting that they happened even back then lol. Who knows
I've seen people say around the age of 2. However, my "first memory", if you can even call it that, is around the age of 8, when I lose a spelling bee. However, that has been brought up by my parents later, and I even think I journaled about it. Next one, I read the most amount of books that year memory. However, it's in the newspaper, you got a savings account, a trophy, etc. I remember smiling when my mom dropped me off for 2nd grade. Guess what? Found an assignment in my closet later on, which I had to have done at some point later on, which shows me being happy and mom taking a photograph....
What about the memories I should remember? Do I remember the crush I supposedly had? No. Do I remember a singular one of the books I read? Yes/No, only know the series I read due to still owning Magic Tree House & Rainbow Magic books. If I read other series, who knows, and who knows if I even read all on the bookshelf. Do I remember being best friends with this person I will call Julian (not real)? No, there's a photograph somewhere in my room likely of me being with him. I was always confused why he even treated me very nicely, since the beginning of "actual memories" (sometime in middle school, if they can be called that), and then my mother knew when I asked, but not me, that we were best friends...
3rd grade (2016-2017). I struggled learning how to write and handed out candy for Halloween with parents. I don't remember any specific event on learning how to write, and I still struggle to write till this day, so I just type everything, so another inference. Halloween handed out with candy? This may be my first memory. I remember that my parents and 3rd grade teacher was there. I can infer that I was dressing as Toad from Mario with red or blue spots due to the costume being saved. Can I relive it or do much past that? No, I don't even know where that memory even comes from. Now that I think of it, it could have easily happened in any other year after 3rd grade, as the presence of a 3rd grade teacher doesn't mean it didn't occur after that grade. May even have a document somewhere on the old computer if I go searching for it journaling, as I had access to the internet then. Social studies fair project? I have the physical version and digital version, don't remote much other than the paper of my speech which I can infer was awkward, as I have social anxiety, not much detail and could be reconstructed, not that vivid.
4th grade (2017-2018). I remember doing a PowerPoint on Poland for gifted. Why? Well, I still have it, but literally nothing else happened that year. Can't even remember her name and she was a gifted teacher and went to almost every day from 2nd grade - 5th grade apparently. I will have that answer once I find the old documents again of my evaluation, as I remember finding that a few months ago.
5th grade (2018-2019). I got in trouble for rolling my eyes, remembered as I had a t-shirt (I'm sorry, did I just roll my eyes out loud?). I could have easily gotten yelled at in the hall or classroom, but isn't the playground as I rolled my eyes coming inside is the story and is in journal. I remembered I colored in speech, still have the drawing in fact, though the teacher's name I can't remember, even if I had her for three years of speech. I can go on to list the rap battle (journal), the backpack I wore (in closet), the teacher (listed name in journal/searched online later to figure out if she was 4th or 5th and who was the other one if so), time management problem (multiple worksheets I kept and still have). There are more memories for 5th grade, but all I can think of top of my head are related to something else. I can't even remember a single friend name in this point of time from, but I can infer that they are likely the ones which I just happened to already be friends with at 6th grade that I can remember of, except the ones I forgot until parents told me (like Julian).
The dream I journaled this year apparently of flying to Brazil after missing the bus and then deciding to live there before canceling it to be in band instead is just as real as anything else in fact. Like the dream is as real as the reality, so how do you know what's real?
6th grade (2019-2020). I was ostracized from peers due to gendesexuality, figured out I was gay due to never liking a girl (not true, in fact, I think I am aroace, no attraction to anyone) snapped at someone for them telling me to help them with chairs, I was in student council, had other snapping for weird reasons, dated 3 people with no remorse (I would think I would, but I thought it was totally fine????), and told by everyone I need to apply myself and write better. These were all journaled and most of these are digitized journals, as I begun digitizing old ones last year to never lose the past.
7th grade (2020-2021). I became part of an unsavory friends group (maybe 6th grade, too lazy to fact check this rn), was homeschool due to COVID, groomed online, and a lot more stuff. It's all journal or it's all digital stuff I have access too. It's certainly not vivid and some is just like what I remember, rather than being something I see, though I do have some memories which I can see.
8th grade (2021-2022). Solidified my gender identity, able to grow hair long, public school again, wore a mask but got bullied for it, Julian was weirdly nice to me (wrote about it at time, thought it was so confusing, maybe they were trying to reconnect but I had no idea why they were talking to me), thought I was plural, played Minecraft (though I did play before this on Xbox, this is the first game I have saved on Minecraft Education edition and can remember somewhat). ALL journaled and not vivid.
9th grade (2022-2023). Started doing college courses, continued to struggle with handwriting, struggled to get through day but persisted for the college courses which allowed me to wear earplugs in library, had a corrupt teacher who "lost" my work, made first friend, diagnosed with disorder, some family moved in till November, which were all journaled about. However, I journaled less this year than other years due to trying to survive.
10th grade (2023-2024) More college courses, fought for accommodations with many incidents of them saying earplugs cause a fire hazard, created systems of self-government, had covid, started to meal prep, predicted a new "era", created safeguards, yellowjackets invaded room, journaled on why plushies were put away (interesting history with my inferences failing), overnight oats became favorite food, almost died from car crash, argued with parents about therianthropy and homeschool, started to expand my knowledge past psychology into other subjects, discussed SDAM the first time in journal (October 2023), debated dropping out, switched to homeschool for college, journaled about relationships for months to determine aroace status for 100%, became more comfortable in my skin, and more. Do you see how this is close to the longest paragraph, only with 3rd grade and 5th grade coming close, but those events weren't simplified and these were! I remember more when I journal more.
It's like my memories aren't like remembered in the order they originally happened. I think I may have realized this at some point and started hoarding stuff. I said this way before in the past. My mother always asks me to get rid of stuff, but if I lose the item, and don't journal about it, I may lose the ability to recall the little facts I do have. Everytime I check my unorganized files, try to clean my room, or reread journals, I remember something I forgot, but never truly see it vividly, it is a faint picture at best.
How do I deal with this. The more I think of it is becoming more like an existential crisis.

Hi everyone! I am a first year high school Spanish teacher (F/23) and I am really struggling with how to gain the respect of students. As of right now I am a long term sub filling in for a teacher on leave, but my position is turning into a full time job after this year (this will be relevant). I think that being closer in age to them makes them feel like they can treat me like a friend rather than an authority figure.
For some more background, I teach freshmen and sophomores with the occasional junior (14-17 years old, generally speaking). My freshmen classes are honors sections and they don’t have this issue, but my sophomore classes are not and they are really really hard to manage. Genuinely, when I am at the board trying to teach them, they have their phones out (despite classroom rules being that they need to put them away AND their compliance in this being part of their grade), they just talk over me the entire time, and then ask the same questions over and over again even though I just went over the material. They blatantly do the exact opposite of what I say and trash my classroom every day by moving desks, leaving trash, and ripping up their worksheets and leaving them around on their desks. The amount of times I ask them to do something (like play basketball with my markers or steal starburst from my desk) and they say “Yo just one more shot miss” or “they’re not even yours, they’re Ms. ________’s” (since I am a LTS). I just want to pull my hair out.
I feel so disrespected and disheartened. I’m not naive enough to have thought that each day would be sunshine and rainbows, but I truly never thought a kid would be just so blatantly disrespectful as to leave ripped up worksheets and tell me “Yo miss let me just finish this game” when told to put their phones away. I was so excited to go into education but I feel myself getting less and less motivated about my future every day that passes.
When it’s good, I love it. My problem classes, however, are at the end of the day and I just leave feeling so so awful, disrespected, and exhausted.
I guess any advice for how to manage this would be appreciated. I have talked to coworkers and admin alike for suggestions but nothing has worked thus far.
Many thanks in advance!

Back in my days of high school my sister and i were the kind of quiet antisocial kids that didn't have a lot of friends but only had one small friend group. My sister was openly gay and was proud of it, she'd have her rainbow flag on her bag and rainbow shoe laces. This girl (let's call her moocow) attended the same high school at the same time, and was homophobic, and a borderline nazi (meaning she actually drew the forbidden symbol on her pencil case, worksheets etc.) She was a part of this really toxic friend group consisting of the "popular" kids. They'd go as far as pushing me up/down the flights of stairs, calling us insane insults and slurs, pretending we had a disease etc.
This one day in particular, my sister was hanging out with our group near the main entrance to the secondary building, i wasn't there to witness it, but i did see the aftermath. moocow had actually beaten my sister senseless for simply just existing. My sister was literally spitting blood kneeling on the ground, but laughing lmao. She was suspended and i didn't really hear from her, until a few years ago.
Moocow had previously applied for a job at a nursing home/care facility, where my aunty works and was actually conducting her interview. My aunty ran a background check, she's like "oh so you went to (insert school name) too? My nieces ----- and ------- went there." According to my aunty, she had turned white and didn't know what to say. My mum had also previously told her all about the bitches who bullied my sister and i, so she knew exactly who she was. Needless to say, she did not get the job, and my aunty wished her luck and sent her off. i honestly don't think she's employed to this day lmfao.
edit: Moocow if you're seeing this, payback's a bitch <3

I've maintained a very detailed tracker for over 3 years, which I also post in the Facebook group where I'm an admin (and it might be easier to access there).

• HERE IS THE TRACKER LINK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/192Wdo3xv8hRpBgrffW-J1NkHIaTDmT6p/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112752806123144645992&rtpof=true&sd=true
• Multiple tabs to see and many crosslinks between them!!
• DOWNLOAD THE FILE and then you can edit it for your own personal use.
• The file works better on a laptop/desktop than on phones

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I've seen many other trackers and over time have added more and more (and more!) detail to this one. Kind of a super spreadsheet of many, many resources.
This is something I'll re-post once per update and that update will fall toward the end of my 2-3 dozen tasks I perform after each Beta release.

• Also, yes I know some of the images aren't showing unless you download it. I'm slowly working on fixing that. It just falls down far on the priority list.

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Last Updated 12.27.2023 (through Version 59.2.0 Content)
Update includes (1) standard 57.0, 58.0, & 59.0 related changes (updates to summary tab; new emoji info; franchise mission tag updates on each tab; updates to columns about most recent winnable time for exclusives on gold/story/rainbow/villain/crystal/platinum tabs; (2) reorganized the Rainbow tab with significant reordering of emojis made in the game; (3) I've removed the vast table of "mission tags" now that the in-game search function and DEBWizard cover this well ---but, I did retain my tips/recommendations and notation of which emojis have interactive powers; and (4) various other formatting/typos to work on consistency
REMINDER: Snake JafaGenie JafaVanessa/Young Mim/Yzma Kitty/Winter Cruella/The Witch/Dragon Maleficent, Amethyst Ursula's formulas are NOT errors. They are a story emoji with a villain leveling up progression (1-2-3-5-7)
Any other feature requests? Still working on history of how frequently exclusives have returned to the game
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There are separate tabs for silver, gold, story, rainbow, villain, group, and series tracking! Columns that describe when an emoji is an exclusive, if you can win it from an item car prize, and when rainbow/villains will be in your card collection box. Use the filters at the top of the columns to sort how you want!
With this much content there are bound to be some errors. I know this updated file isn't perfect! If you see typos, math formulas broken, emojis out of order, etc., comment and I will update periodically. I'll also update the template as soon as I can after each major content release.
As reminder, the typical progression for leveling most emojis is Silver (1-2-5), Gold/Most Rainbows/Most Story (1-1-2-5-10), and Villains (1-2-3-5-7)
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USE NOTE
If you have a prior version, you can either retype in all your personal game status content after downloading the new version OR you can carefully cut and paste the ENTIRE ROW (or text block on the series and group tabs) needed and paste in exactly the same location on your current worksheet.

I've maintained a very detailed tracker for over 3 years, which I also post in the Facebook group where I'm an admin!).

• Multiple tabs to see and many crosslinks between them!!
• DOWNLOAD THE FILE and then you can edit it for your own personal use.

HERE IS THE TRACKER LINK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a4088Ole70diGMndbBmkLP8fIoC26XSK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112752806123144645992&rtpof=true&sd=true
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I've seen many other trackers and over time have added more and more (and more!) detail to this one. Kind of a super spreadsheet of many, many resources.
This is something I'll re-post once per update and that update will fall toward the end of my 2-3 dozen tasks I perform after each Beta release.

• Also, yes I know some of the images aren't showing unless you download it. I'm slowly working on fixing that. It just falls down far on the priority list.

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Last Updated 7.12.2023 (through Version 56.2.0 Content)
Update includes (1) standard 55.0 & 56.0 related changes (updates to summary tab; new emoji info; franchise mission tag updates on each tab; updates to columns about most recent winnable time for exclusives on gold/story/rainbow/villain/crystal/platinum tabs; new mission tags; (2) The Child to Grogu name change made; (3) Multiple updates on the group collection tab, including several formula errors fixed; and (4) various other formatting/typos to work on consistency
REMINDER: Snake JafaGenie JafaVanessa/Young Mim/Yzma Kitty/Winter Cruella/The Witch/Dragon Maleficent's formulas are NOT errors. They are a story emoji with a villain leveling up progression (1-2-3-5-7)
Any other feature requests? Still working on history of how frequently exclusives have returned to the game
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There are separate tabs for silver, gold, story, rainbow, villain, group, and series tracking! Columns that describe when an emoji is an exclusive, if you can win it from an item car prize, and when rainbow/villains will be in your card collection box. Use the filters at the top of the columns to sort how you want!
With this much content there are bound to be some errors. I know this updated file isn't perfect! If you see typos, math formulas broken, emojis out of order, etc., comment and I will update periodically. I'll also update the template as soon as I can after each major content release.
As reminder, the typical progression for leveling most emojis is Silver (1-2-5), Gold/Most Rainbows/Most Story (1-1-2-5-10), and Villains (1-2-3-5-7)
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USE NOTE
If you have a prior version, you can either retype in all your personal game status content after downloading the new version OR you can carefully cut and paste the ENTIRE ROW (or text block on the series and group tabs) needed and paste in exactly the same location on your current worksheet.

https://imgur.com/a/aNN3xLG (please click to see all the pics including the world's cutest poop)
u/Moose-Maleficent x 2 Thank you so much for the super creative handmade Pi Day card! I adore your heart & am honestly not surprised you wouldn’t exact revenge against Bridezilla hahaha! Yessss I thought of “The Help” too lol!!! I’m also bananas for the insanely awesome Hot Cross Buns card - it’s sooooo my smile & makes me so happy when I look at it!!!! It’s heartbreakingly cute. I’m so happy to have met you & to remember you forevermore as my first recipient (or hopefully soon) of international mail - that’s the most excitement I’ve had in years hahaha!!!!
u/thecaledonianrose x 2 OMG this cuuuute kitty birthday card is so sweet!!! I was especially touched by your beautiful words wishing me so many amazing things! What a kind soul you are - THANK YOU so much!!! I also love the fun stickers, the neat-o washi stamp style stickers, the mini thank-you, & the delicious passion flower tea!!! Thank you so much for the super precious Easter card of the bunny & the birds!! This bunny is just a sweetheart with that dreamy expression & smile! I just love the colors & the positive vibes jumping out at me from the card & your sweet thoughts! Yesssss, I’m really happy we sorta have a spring in my state - sadly it doesn’t last long. But I’m so grateful it’s not a billion degrees yet! Thank you also for the ****cuuuuute**** bunny & Easter stickers, the Perfect Peach tea (I’m so jazzed to try it - how perfect is that flavor for Spring?!?!?) & the pretty Flowers Bingo card with the too cute floral bingo mini placemarkers!!! Wishing you the sweetest Spring full of fanciful flowers!
u/fightshrubb Thank you so much for the adorable handmade aliens-themed Pi Day card - soooo cute!!! I love your energy!! Also love that you used different fun & bright colors of ink to write! I so hear you with the endless array of craft supplies lol!! To answer your question…I love watercolor!!! I have zero skills & was trying to learn when I happily stumbled upon RAoC so watercolor took a backseat to carding. ;) Hope you had an awesome Pi Day full of pizza discounts haha! ;)
u/emptyparkinglot Thanks for the Gauguin postcard with your hilarious observation, “Paul Gauguin was honestly a creep in his personal life but he sure did know how to use color.” Hahaha, right?!? I loved your thoughts on art & appreciate them especially because I have a deep desire to learn more about art & how to articulate artistic concepts. You did that so beautifully with your analysis of Gauguin’s work! Wishing you lots of bliss as you create your own works of art! =)
u/o0oiwio0o Thank you for the awesome sassy slanderous card of the Bernadine Bridge over the Vilnia!!! Your handwriting - oh my GORGEOUS!!! It’s so classy! And I have NEVER seen more fun & vibrant punctuation marks!!! I love your style! And the slander about the National Stadium is truly hilarious. I love how you turned the slander into a motivational gem hahaha!!!! I just loved your creative prompt & felt so fortunate to be a recipient of such fresh, fancy slander LOL! I also love the adorable elephant sticker you included. Thank you. =) Wishing you infinite saucy slanderous thoughts because they are so fun & phenomenal!!! =)
u/travel4me22 x 2 Thank you for WHAAAAT?!?!? This incredible, gorgeous postcard you upcycled from a Van Gogh paper bag!!!! So creative - I absolutely loooove it!!!! I appreciate your resourcefulness & creativity so much! Thank you for the *beautiful* illustrated card of the strong, powerful women!! The colors are so fun. This card & your kind affirmations are just brimming with so many positive vibes!! I’m also excited you share my thoughts on Helen Keller. Thank you for spreading awesome cheer on International Women’s Day & beyond!
u/onlycompletely Thanks for the adorable “Espresso Yourself” postcard!!
u/drivingogre Thank you so much for the cute bear doodle postcard with all the fun facts about Disney actors & cats! You have such sweet vibes!!
u/TigerLady13 x 4 Thanks for the adorable bunny & flower Easter card! LOVE the stamp embellishments you included & the cute way you decorated the inside of the card with the cut out words. Thanks also for the hug in the mail “nothing new” card with the awesome passion clouds worksheet & delicious recipe - I’ll definitely try it. :) Thank you for the hilarious 100% organic gangster card! Loved hearing your BFF was about to visit. Hope y’all had a fabulous time together and that y’all will meet up again soon! You asked about my BFF. Thank you - we met at the University of Texas when she was a transfer student & I was a freshman. She boldly came right up to me as I was having lunch alone to ask if she could join me. It was so cool of her to be so brave! She lives hundreds of miles away & the pandemic has made it a pain to get together but we keep in touch. Wishing you a beautiful spring, beautiful friend!
u/YuletideWitch Thank you for the adorable vintage Disney World postcard! I’m so sad you shot yourself in the head…I shouldn’t have given that to you as an option for the Macarena prompt. But I shall remember your bravery in the face of dance adversity forevermore! Haha, thank you for indulging me with the silly prompt :)
u/royalewithtees Thanks for the awesome “Breaking Bad” postcard - I didn’t know that cool fact about the 62nd element…so awesome!!! Happy to have met someone who has awesome taste in shows like me hahahaha!!! And I LOVE the cool BB decorative stamp!!! Thank you!!
u/mickey_is_bored Thank you so much to you & your sweet friends for cheering on complete strangers!!! I wish that back in college, I had the type of friend you & your pals are for carding crafternoons! So precious. Thinking of you & your friend & sending lots of healing vibes. Thanks for spreading cheer :)
u/hato_mailing Thank you for the sweet wax seals on the lovely barnacle goose postcard - love the Denmark bird stamp embellishment!
u/elliearbus Thank you so much for this AWESOME handmade watercolor card - you are so insanely talented!!! I love it!!!!! I’m a sucker for not only watercolor art, but illustrations of craft supplies so this card is absolutely a terrific treasure for me. It’s just adorable & brimming with energy! Thanks again. Wishing you endless joy as you create your wondrous watercolor work!!
u/gillbhai x 2 I’m so happy & relieved I finally found you, my mystery sender! Thank you so much for both of the gorgeous floral cards in my favorite bright colors! The pinks, oranges, & blues are just so cheery & happy! I also love the book rec & the Sharif poetry you wonderfully shared with me. I’ll have to read & re-read it to truly understand all the layers as you & Sharif are so amazingly deep! I would highly recommend the historical fiction book “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles. It’s the best book I’ve read in many years. Wishing you joyous reads & a peaceful rest of 2023. Thank you so much for brightening my day with your lovely thoughts & beautiful cards!!
u/RoxanneBarton Thanks for the beautifully-illustrated pen & pencils “Snail Mail Club” postcard - I’m obsessed with illustrated cards & love it so much!!! I have to catch up with SG films too. LOVE your pretty handwriting! =) Wishing you fragrant bouquets of lilacs this spring, sweet friend.
u/purpleteasoul x 2 Thanks for the sweet purple floral thank you card - it was my pleasure to send you birthday mail! Thanks also “Welcome book lover…” postcard! Hahaha yes you’re right, I read your postcard from my little nook at the library! Wishing you the best of reads!!
u/littlehoneybeebuzz Thanks for the romantic Paris postcard! I love to read in dreary weather. Wishing you sunny skies this spring! =)
u/brittybear94 x 2 How cute you are is so apparent from your extraordinarily cute mail!! Thanks so much for the fun RAoC b-day wishes!! I’m madly in LOVE with the cuuuutest little Peanuts “Nuts About You” card, the adorable Cookie Monster sticker, & the incredibly festive colorful RAoC personalized rainbow mail sticker…SO SO cuuute!! Even the envelope was decorated in one thing - CUTE. Thanks for gracing my mailbox with such pretty things!!! =) Wishing you the crunchiest & chewiest of chocolate chip cookies, my cute friend!!!
u/Jane_Q Thanks for the lovely illustrated postcard of the Field Tulips in Holland! Even lovelier - how much you wrote on the back of the postcard! OMG my southern sensibilities woulda been smacked too had I gone through the nonsense you described! WTH?!? As Jerry Maguire would say, “These fish have manners.” Seriously whack!! But I was so happy you shared, thank you! Wishing you zero car issues so you never have to deal with mannerless buffoons ever again hahaha!
u/OkayFlan Thanks for the sweet “I am Grateful” postcard - I sure am grateful to have met you here & hope you’re having tons of fun with all your cool new card tech supplies!
u/falloutboy01 Thank you for the awesome handmade Easter card - the cutout with the hidden lime green layer is sooooo creative & pretty!!! I’m guessing you used Cricut - wow. The effect is amazing.The colors you used complement each other so well, especially for spring! Thanks also for the adorable stickers. Wishing you a splendid spring, kind friend!!
u/sunfireninety9 - Thank you for the beautiful Asian art illustration postcard! I LOVE all the neat stamps you used on the card. Wow, that is so neat about the 1991 vintage rose stamp! I’m so sorry to learn the glue tasted icky - but you made so many people happy (including me) with your kind happy mail lol! Wishing you tastier stamps next time haha, maybe cupcake flavored ones? ;)
u/feellikebeingajerk x 4 Thanks for the sweet handmade St. Patrick’s Day wishes & the cool President’s Day postcard of Monticello! It’s cool to appreciate our history & I’m glad you’re able to see historical figures through multiple lenses. I’m crazy about the pretty spring-y washi tape you used. Wishing you lots of pretty weather & sunny smiles this spring! THANKS a million for the awesome raspberry pie card & the throwback Holly Hobbie beauty (apologies no pics of these 2 sweeties - they’re elsewhere at the time I’m submitting this) - both of these sweeeeet cards made my day!!!!
u/Soleiletta Thank you for the fabulous card from Wednesday Addams - you totally channeled her so awesomely! You should write for the show!! =) I loved the cute Tarot stickers you used to decorate the card. And that handwriting - it’s just glorious!!! It’s somehow both modern & vintage too?!?? Just gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your fun prompt creativity with me. =)
u/1398_days Thank you for the pretty pastel thank you card!!! It was my absolute pleasure to think of you on your birthday & I’m so touched it cheered you up! Your kind thank you card lifted my spirits & made me feel super happy! It’s so bright & colorful - just my fave color palette! I sure hope you’ve been having cheerful days since your birthday & that you will remind me when it’s your big day next year for more birthday greetings!! =)
u/somedrawer Thanks for the adorable doggie Easter card! Such fun stamps & washi decorations on the card - the baked confectionaries washi is sooo delicious! Love the positive affirmation you wrote: “I am capable of creating positive change in the world.” So uplifting! Here’s one for you: “I am a creator. I create my reality.”
u/its_top_secret x 2 Thank you for the sweet Seigensha postcard! And I love your spirit - you wanting to dance no matter what is so inspiring! I also love your willingness to be brave & embellish when no one is watching hahaha! Thank you for the vintage-y shrine postcard with your beautiful handwriting! Love how you would have searched for legendary figures if you had the chance to time travel. =) Wishing you a happy future & past too if you dare to explore haha!
u/aepeyc Thank you for the sweet Saint Patrick’s Day greetings with the pretty feather! Wishing you lots of luck not just on the 17th of each year, but each day as well. :)
u/missnettiemoore Thank you so much for this GORGEOUS cartoon Saint Patrick’s Day card!!! The sweet smiling critters are so charming!!! I also love the fun fact you wrote: “The odds in finding a 4-leaf clover are about 1 in 10,000.” I had no idea - that’s so mindblowing!!! Thank you for brightening my day with your sweet card. Wishing you a breezy, beautiful spring & that you chance across those rare 4 leaf clovers for lots of luck! =)
u/FollowingTheBeat You had me at the exquisite envelope decorated with your precious handmade cherry blossom tree! So pretty. I’m terrible at drawing trees so I’m especially excited by your talent. But that was just the appetizer. I’m in love with this gorgeous pink-themed floral feast of a card!!! Thank you! This card instantly makes me happy with all the bright colors & the pretty sticker you used to decorate it. This card is soooo beautiful, & so are you for including such sweet spring wishes for so many lovely things, including “beauty”! What an awesome wish. Wishing you a spring full of the same love & beautiful birds that serenade you & make you smile!
u/RayneKitten Thank you so much for the beautiful postcard to color - it’ll be a joy! I also love the quote. I appreciate your kindness! Wishing you lots of masterpieces!
u/PM_me_oak_trees Thank you for the *hilarious* April Fool’s Day card - the teaching English quip is priceless hahaha!!! I also love the awesome motivational quotes & funny jokes you wrote. OMG “I was going to write a time-travel joke, but you did not like it” - rahahahahahahaha! I’m so stealing that one! I really appreciated your creativity in sending “junk mail” - what a neato thing to do! Hope you had a beautiful April Fool’s Day - thanks for making mine special!
u/FancyBeadedPlacemat Thank you so much for the potato postcard! I was laughing when I received it because I only tagged potato pals & didn’t request one since merely *looking* at potatoes makes me gain weight LOL! But I was so glad you sent it to me because I had no idea about the fun history fact!!! That’s so cool that Marie Antoinette would wear potato blossoms in her hair!!! So thank you for sharing that awesome historical gem with me!!!
u/wabisabi_sf Thank you so much for this perfect postcard TREAT of Julia Child along with the fun facts about her life! It’s just a postcard dream as far as postcards go. I’m nuts for fun illustrations so this is a real treasure. I also love the fun vintage stamps you used. Thanks so much for thinking of me with your wonderful offer & for making me giddy by picking me to receive this scrumptious postcard!! =)
u/orangewolpertinger x 2 Thank you for the absolutely precious homemade cards!!!! The cuuuute pink kawaii candy themed card just made me melt!!! I love the combo of black & pink colors along with the pink & red themed scrapbook paper! The fox Saint Patrick’s Day card is soooo adorable too! Love the fun stickers you used to decorate the card! I also love & appreciate the kind stamps you included. You’re also so cute to take that Squishmallow personality quiz hahaha! So you’re Hans the Hedgehog? Although I agree that Hans is cute, he doesn’t hold up a cute candle compared to you & your endless card love!!! Thank you so much for these sweet treats!!! Wishing you lots of love & joy!
u/Bowies-solid-speech x 2 I’m so happy I found you, my fabulous obituary mystery sender!!!! I even tried looking for you with a search for “obituary” on Reddit but didn’t find any relevant hits…Reddit is so goofy. I loved your creative, thoughtful obituary so much! You have such a fun brain - thank you for brightening my day with the fake obit hahaha! Your creativity is so very charming!!! I also admired how eager you were to write in depth! I also LOVE the adorable postcard of the critter looking at himself in the mirror. Thank you! The pastel colors & illustration are awesome! I was drawn to it because of one of my favorite Kabir quotes: “But if a mirror ever makes you sad, you should know that it does not know you.” Wishing you lots of joy as you check your beautiful self out in the mirror!!
u/Slavkan12 THANK you so much for this gorgeous handmade “Dream Space” postcard that’s so bright & bouncy with the gorgeous array of blooming plants!!! It’s so pretty & makes me ache to have my own “Dream Space”!!! I love how you upcycled the calendar to create it. So cool & creative. But the front of the card isn’t where the magic ends - WOW!! I was **blown away** by your amazing illustration inside the card with the stunning self-portrait & the pretty pink & green plant!!! Your art skills are sublime! I love all the colors you used (such pretty pink hair & I love the color of your shirt). I wish so much I could draw like you but am grateful that even though I can’t, I’m a lucky recipient of this super cool gift!!!! I also love all the festive stickers you included & how you decorated the envelope with the unique bird/owl stickers. =) Thank you so much for this magnificent, magical mail! Wishing you lots of success in your art & beyond, kind friend!
u/jules_abroad How did you do it? Never before your gorgeous card would I have ever thought I would have called a card with toilet paper & poop on it “gorgeous”. But that’s what you did with your INSANE TALENT & ADORABLE poop & tp handmade wacky wonderful card!!! I’m honestly in awe even though poop & tp usually make me wanna throw up! I LOVE IT SO SO MUCH hahaha! Thank you for brightening my day with poop of all things! I’m including a highlighted picture of it with the link above. ;) I wish I could draw & watercolor like you do…this is so going in a frame in my future dream home bathroom!! =) Wishing you the softest, squishiest, most cloud-like tp ever, sweet friend!

Access here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MheWtMu2SuMXDNwvwPV8cvY18jR3d6BF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103376513072661292889&rtpof=true&sd=true
I've maintained a very detailed tracker for almost 3 years, which I post on various FB groups (including this one where I'm an admin!).

• Multiple tabs to see and many crosslinks between them!!
• DOWNLOAD THE FILE and then you can edit it for your own personal use.

I've seen many other trackers and over time have added more and more (and more!) detail to this one. Kind of a super spreadsheet of many, many resources.
This is something I'll re-post once per update and that update will fall toward the end of my 2-3 dozen tasks I perform after each Beta release.

• Also, yes I know some of the images aren't showing unless you download it. I'm slowly working on fixing that. It just falls down far on the priority list.

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Last Updated 4.10.2023 (through Version 54.4.3 Content)
Update includes (1) standard 53.0 & 54.0 related changes (updates to summary tab; new emoji info; franchise mission tag updates on each tab; updates to columns about most recent winnable time for exclusives on gold/story/rainbow/villain/crystal/platinum tabs; new mission tags (including new "Bow wearing" column; order introduced tab; etc.); (2) Elastigirl to Mrs. Incredible name change made; (3) Bombbles power tag added throughout; and (4) various other formatting/typos to work on consistency
REMINDER: Snake JafaGenie JafaVanessa/Young Mim/Yzma Kitty/Winter Cruella/The Witch/Dragon Maleficent's formulas are NOT errors. They are a story emoji with a villain leveling up progression (1-2-3-5-7)
Any other feature requests? Still working on history of how frequently exclusives have returned to the game
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There are separate tabs for silver, gold, story, rainbow, villain, group, and series tracking! Columns that describe when an emoji is an exclusive, if you can win it from an item car prize, and when rainbow/villains will be in your card collection box. Use the filters at the top of the columns to sort how you want!
With this much content there are bound to be some errors. I know this updated file isn't perfect! If you see typos, math formulas broken, emojis out of order, etc., comment and I will update periodically. I'll also update the template as soon as I can after each major content release.
As reminder, the typical progression for leveling most emojis is Silver (1-2-5), Gold/Most Rainbows/Most Story (1-1-2-5-10), and Villains (1-2-3-5-7)
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HISTORICAL NOTE
I took the chance of proactively updating the excel collection tracking file last provided by Jennifer Reichart Jarrett in June 2019. Kudos to her for bringing/posting the original template!

Study From: Policy Exchange
Study Published: 30/03/2023
Study Titled: Asleep At The Wheel
Study of: State Secondary Schools (ages 11-16), An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools
Study can be found by googling 'Policy Exchange 30/03/2023
Link: https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Asleep-at-the-Wheel.pdf
Anything written in italics is my own personal opinion or interpretation.
Vital take away from this study
We will not allow any children in our family to attend any school that receives guidelines or has speakers or any materials from the following organisation:

1. Stonewall
2. Proud Trust
3. Rainbow Flag
4. Diversity Role Models

To understand why please scroll to the last part of this reddit post or open the study PDF file and look at the last dozen pages on how these organisations are breaking a number of safeguarding protocols and pushing overtly sexual games and material on underage children!
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My Goal
I will highlight some figures and statements from the study and summarise however I strongly suggest individuals to read it for them selves.
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Sample Size
300 State Secondary Schools.
Approximately 9% of all Secondary schools in the UK.
There are currently 3458 total secondary schools in UK which includes private, state & special schools.
Only 28% of schools pooled inform parents if their child identifies as a different gender than that assigned at birth.
Potentially 72% of schools are with holding this information and this might not be legal based on Children Acts 1989 and 2004, however I am not aware of any court cases over this so actual legal advice is advised, but it is worth pointing out, more information on the Children Acts 1989 and 2004 is available in this reddit thread, the study and online, please do your own research.
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Gender Ideology Teaching
72% of schools teach the idea that people have a gender identity that may be different from their biological sex.
6% Don't teach it.
22% Insufficient data provided.
A minimum of 72% of UK State schools pooled teach gender ideology with the potential of a maximum of 94% of UK state schools teach gender ideology.
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Social Mandatory Gender Affirmation
69% of schools require other children to affirm a gender distressed child’s new identity.
13% of schools do not require gender affirmation from other children.
18% Insufficient data provided.
A minimum of 69% of UK State schools pooled have mandatory requirements for other students & teachers to affirm gender of their peers. With the potential of a maximum of 87% mandatory affirmation. This means between 69-87% of our schools have compelled speech being mandated therefore these schools do not have freedom of speech!
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Cross Sex Sports
At least 60% of schools are not maintaining single-sex sports.
6% School maintains single-sex sports.
60% School does not maintain single-sex sports.
20% All sports are mixed sex/school is single-sex.
14% Insufficient detail provided.
A minimum of 60% of UK State schools pooled allow opposite sex children that identify as the opposite gender to participate in sports with the opposite sex. Potentially there can a maximum of 74% of schools that allow this.
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Cross Sex Changing Rooms
At least 19 per cent of schools do not maintain single-sex changing rooms.
40% School maintains single-sex changing rooms.
19% School does not maintain single-sex changing rooms.
11% School is single-sex/school does not facilitate changing on site.
30% Insufficient detail provided.
A minimum of 19% of UK State schools pooled allow boys going through puberty to get undressed with girls that are going through puberty. A potential maximum of 49% of schools can be allowing this to take place!
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Cross Sex Bath Rooms
At least 28 per cent of schools do not maintain single-sex toilets.
35% School maintains single-sex toilets.
28% School does not maintain single-sex toilets.
5% School is single-sex.
32% Insufficient detail provided.
A minimum of 28% of UK State schools pooled allow boys going through puberty to use the bathrooms of girls going through puberty and vies versa. A Potential maximum of 60% of schools might be allowing this to happen!
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Statements that stand out in the Study:
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• Over the last decade, external agencies with partisan aims have received large amounts of government funding and, accordingly, have gained influence within the education sector.

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• The document’s statement that LGBT is not a safeguarding issue needs to be removed (in schools)

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• No state-funded school should subscribe to diversity membership schemes offered by external agencies where such organisations are involved in political campaigning.

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• The number of children presenting with gender distress has escalated over the past decade, but particularly so in the last five years.

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• The number of children being referred to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has risen by over 1600 per cent since 2010.

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• Referral rates among girls are much higher, increasing by 3176 per cent since 2010.

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• Gender transition very often leads to painful and life-changing medical intervention.

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• Consequently, well-established laws and safeguarding norms are being substantially jeopardised, with schools unwittingly pushing children onto a pathway of profound and life-altering medical intervention, with the impossibility of knowing whether this is in the child’s best interest.

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• The notion that every person has an innate gender identity is a highly contested belief, unsupported by scientific evidence.

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• Some of these organisations also work towards explicitly political aims, such as lobbying the government to adopt legal sex self-identification, in order to legislate for the belief that gender is more determinative of a person’s identity than their biological sex.

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• While the debate on sex and gender evolves at pace, children should not be caught in the crossfire.

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• Safeguarding refers to the measures taken to ensure people – especially children and young people – are not put at undue risk of harm. As a concept, safeguarding is designed to encompass a holistic range of measures, including a minimum standard that must be met in order to ensure children are able to grow up in healthy and safe circumstances.

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• The Children Act of 1989 states explicitly that parental involvement in the life of their child is paramount. No other body is to assume parental responsibility for a child unless the court intervenes.

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• Those who have parental responsibility for a child should be empowered to make decisions for that child and receive information about them. This is especially important for the sake of children who disclose gender-distress at school.

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• Children Acts 1989 and 2004, confirming that children are best placed with their families ‘with their parents playing a full part in their lives.

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• If a child discloses information that is not known by their parents, their school is required to disclose this information and to act in accordance with the wishes of the parent. Unless there is a safeguarding risk

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• As with every other mental health issue, parents should be informed if a child discloses gender-distress at school, even if a child would rather their parents did not know. Given the fact that many schools are failing to recognise the medical nature of gender distress and affirmative practice, many schools are not automatically informing parents when this issue arises.

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• There is a list of safeguarding risks, this one stands out like a sore thumb: the need for early safeguarding intervention for a child who is at risk of being radicalised or exploited.

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• Schools should not under any circumstances work with external agencies that take or promote extreme political positions or use materials produced by such agencies. This point is especially important for the purposes of this report, because many of the external resources and agencies schools are using regarding teaching on sex and gender have explicitly political aims, such as embedding gender identity beliefs in the law.

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• Gender affirming care is defined as ‘any single or combination of a number of social, psychological, behavioural or medical (including hormonal treatment or surgery) interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity.

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• Within healthcare, the gender affirmative care pathway can involve several forms of medical intervention, and is available both on the NHS and privately.

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• Social transition is often considered a ‘first line’ form of medical intervention. This could entail adopting a new name, pronouns, different clothing or hairstyle. Teenage girls may also flatten their breasts through wearing a ‘binder’ or exhibiting a ‘packer’ to give the appearance of having male genitalia. The long-term side effects of chest binding in girls whose breasts have not yet matured is unknown, but in a study of nearly 2000 participants, over 97 per cent experienced some kind of negative side effect, including chest pain, shortness of breath, and scarring.

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• A likely consequence of social transition and a further element of gender affirmative care is hormonal and surgical treatment to change a person’s body to more closely resemble the opposite sex.

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• The prescription of puberty blockers is a further intervention advocated for by affirmative practice. Which can begin in a child as early as age eight!!!!!!!!!!!

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• GIDS claims that blockers are ‘physically reversable interventions’ because once a child ceases to take them, their body should continue to develop as it would have done. This claim is unsubstantiated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• Interim Cass Report, which highlighted the fact that social transition ‘may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• The idea behind such early medical intervention is based on the ‘Dutch protocol’ (DP) conducted in 1998. The protocol was based on the thesis that gender-distressed children may have better outcomes if they began treatment before they became adults. The results of the study appeared positive. Subsequently, the prescription of puberty blockers for younger children became the international standard for treating gender dysphoria

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• In recent years the protocol has been discredited, on the basis that the study had serious methodological flaws, principally the fact that it only included positive outcomes in its results. It also judged success on how well puberty blockers supressed puberty in gender-dysphoric teenagers, not how well they resolved their gender dysphoria. On the basis that puberty blockers had halted their genitals from developing enough for standard cross-sex surgery to take place safely, one participant died as a result of pubertal suppression. This patient’s case was omitted from the final study!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• Despite claiming that blockers are reversible, GIDS acknowledges that the physical and psychological long-term effects of blockers in this clinical context are unknown.

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• Several academic studies suggest that the effects of puberty blockers are in fact irreversible and significantly affect the development of the adolescent brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• In the UK, puberty blockers are not licensed to treat gender dysphoria. They are licensed to treat prostate cancer, precocious puberty and endometriosis.

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• Another medical intervention supported by a gender affirmative approach is the prescription of irreversible cross-sex hormones (testosterone or oestrogen), with the aim of producing some of the secondary sex characteristics developed by the opposite sex.

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• While GIDS refers to cross-sex hormones as stage three of the medical pathway they offer, most children who take puberty blockers will go onto take cross-sex hormones, and so the distinction between the stages is minimal. In a GIDS study from 2021, of 44 children who received puberty blockers, 43 went onto take cross-sex hormones (98 per cent). An FOI response from Leeds General Infirmary found that in 2019, 78 of 87 (90 per cent) of children took the same route.

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• These findings led the Cass Interim Report to question whether puberty blockers are actually just a ‘pause button’ or “whether they effectively ‘lock in’ children and young people to a treatment pathway which culminates in progression to feminising/masculinising hormones by impeding the usual process of sexual orientation and gender identity development.

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• The long-term effects of cross-sex hormones are considerable. Temporary (or sometimes permanent) infertility, higher risk of cancer and blood clots are commonly reported. A recent study suggests that those who take cross-sex hormones are nearly seven times more likely to suffer a stroke, and nearly six times more likely to suffer from a severe heart attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING TO KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• If blockers are found to prevent psychological maturing of the brain, it follows that a child may not be in a competent state of maturity to make the decision to carry onto cross-sex hormones, despite the fact that taking blockers is the necessary criteria to be prescribed them. As with puberty blockers, they are not licensed for the treatment of gender dysphoria in the UK.

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• Several countries are moving away from the affirmative model of care, including Sweden, Finland and France. AFFIRMATIVE CARE SHOULD BE ABOLISHED ACROSS THE GLOBE!!

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• Dr Zucker recognised that rates of mental distress in gender-distressed children are comparable to those in children with other psychiatric disorders of ‘an internalised nature’, such as depression and anxiety.

(remember anything in italics in my own interpretation and opinion) most kids don't have gender distress they have fucking depression an anxiety and gender ideology is what's being pushed on them as an escape, I wonder how much of kids depression and anxiety is directly related to this shit being taught in schools!!!!!!!
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• Subsequently, a child’s gender-distress is most often a symptom of something else going on, not necessarily a cause in and of itself

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• In the largest study of natal boys to date referenced above, 87 per cent had desisted when followed up 13 years later.

Jesus Christ leave kids alone 87% of them got it wrong and this was long before the current outbreak in the west!
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• Over 85 per cent of children found their dysphoria was resolved without any form of medical intervention, including social transition.

MORE AND MORE EVIDENCE THAT THEY NEED TO LEAVE CHILDREN ALONE!!!!!!
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• Furthermore, nearly 30 per cent of transgender patients, in a study of 1000, were found to have desisted when followed up after four years. This means that nearly three in ten participants had taken irreversible medical intervention before desisting to their biological sex.

MORE AND MORE EVIDENCE THAT THEY NEED TO LEAVE CHILDREN ALONE AGAIN THIS IS ALL BEFORE THE CURRENT OUTBREAK OF GENDER IDEOLOGY IN THE WEST!!!!!
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• The unprecedented numbers of children needing treatment has overwhelmed the current service. As of July 2022, there were nearly 8000 children waiting for an initial appointment. Natal females, looked after children, children with autism and children questioning their sexuality are overrepresented in the current caseload.

CHILDREN QUESTIONING THEIR SEXUALITY ARE OVERREPRESENTED IN THE CURRENT CASE LOAD MEANS THAT GAY AND LESBIAN KIDS ARE BEING PUSHED INTO SEX CHANGES RATHER THAN BEING ALLOWED TO BE GAY OR LESBIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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• Natal girls are hugely overrepresented in the number of referrals to GIDS.

Young girls are more susceptible to social contagion due to and not limited to the fact that girls are more aggregable then boys.
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• Puberty is a vulnerable period for young people, but arguably more so for girls, for the sexualisation of the female body is prevalent. Changing body shapes, body rejection and general body dysmorphia is much more common in girls.

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• It is well documented that children with autism are an over-represented subgroup within the current caseload. The Interim Cass Report notes that approximately one third of children referred have autism.

The more I read the more disgusted I get, these poor kids!
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• In 2020, young people between 16-24 were the most likely group to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) – with 8 per cent falling into this category.

I find it interesting that activist groups claim that sexuality is 100% Biological and people don't have any control over it and the societal factors have no impact on sexuality but then when you start pushing it on kids suddenly they have become the most likely group to be gay or lesbian as they reach adulthood!!!!!
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• There is a strong correlation between early gender non-conforming behaviour and homosexuality. Girls who prefer ‘masculine’ activities are more likely to become lesbian, and boys who prefer ‘feminine’ activities are more likely to become gay.

This only adds to my previous argument that sexuality might not be 100% based on biology!
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• A high proportion of gender-distressed children grow up to become gay, not transgender

I wonder how much longer the LGB officially detach and go to war with the T+ that are converting the LGB members to a life time of medical intervention and hardship.
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• A 2021 study of natal boys with GID (presenting at an average age of seven) demonstrated that 47.2 per cent were same-sex attracted when followed up 13 years later, regardless of whether they had transitioned.

More fuel for the LGB - T+ division.
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• Gender non-conformity in childhood is much more of a predictor of LGB orientation in adulthood than transgenderism. More and more fuel for the division

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• A much smaller – but still concerning – number of schools answered that they would not involve a safeguarding or medical professional if a child expressed gender distress.

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• While 54 per cent of schools stated that they would inform a safeguarding and/or medical practitioner when a pupil disclosed gender distress, 33 per cent said they would not automatically do this. 13% Insufficient detail provided. Potentially a maximum of 46% of schools pooled would not automatically inform a safeguarding and/or medical practitioner.

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• Gender self-identification (self-ID) refers to the process of a person identifying as their preferred gender without any external requirements, because the person’s own innate feeling about their sense of self as male or female is considered necessary validation.

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• While some schools operate self-identification – but with parental consent – only a very small proportion of schools stated that they did not operate some form of pupil self-identification on their premises.

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• The resource below outlines to pupils terms they should avoid, one of which is discussion relating to biological sex. It also implies that sex is not binary. Similarly, the Genderbread image above implies that biological sex exists on some kind of sliding scale. This is of course, incorrect. Sex is immutable and defined by chromosomal DNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• I suggest looking at the images on pages 52 & 53. Currently secondary schools are teaching and listing 16 different sexual & gender identities. Disgusting

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• We asked each school whether they had engaged with an external agency in delivering RSHE in the last 24 months. Over 50 per cent of schools stated that they had. The most common organisations named were: PSHE Association, The Proud Trust, Rainbow Flag Award, Just Like Us, Diversity Role Models.

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• 52 per cent of schools stated that they had used a external provider to provide lessons or resources on gender identity.

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• It is clear that many schools do not regard gender-distress and its associated pathway as a safeguarding issue. Subsequently, the implications of current practice on safeguarding principles is substantial.

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• It is simply impossible to know which children within the current caseload will go onto inhabit stable transgender identities as adults.

How many children have been mutilated on the alter of gender ideology that will grow up and regret the path they where thrusted upon!!!!
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• As such, the medical intervention of social transition comes with serious risks – and certainly has no place within an education setting.

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• Furthermore, it is questionable whether social transition itself is actually as reversible as it may seem. For a child that has been conditioned to believe they are the opposite sex, the pressure becomes greater for them to continue to present as such.

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• One study observed that once a child has been affirmed in their new gender, it is very difficult for them to desist, because they have already required those around them to affirm their transition.

What have they done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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• Regardless, social transition does very often mark the beginning of a pathway that leads to irreversible and physical medical intervention. As outlined in a previous chapter, almost 100 per cent of children who take puberty blockers proceed to take cross-sex hormones.

WHAT ARE WE STILL DOING!!!!!!!!!!!
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• Affirmation as a solution will likely fail, because in most cases a child’s distress is a transient symptom of another cause. Consequently, there will be a large number of children who transition in an attempt to cure their distress, only to continue to suffer with it.

They got it all wrong!!!!!!!!
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• Secondly, the irreversible medical nature of the affirmative pathway is irreconcilable with the fact that children are much more likely to inhabit transient identities than adults.

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• In light of this, the current practice of gender affirmation within schools highlights substantial safeguarding breaches.

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• Since so many schools are facilitating social transition outside of the clinical context, it is clear that the safeguarding norm of multi-agency working is being eroded.

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• 79 per cent of teachers said their school had a pupil identifying as transgender or non-binary.

I don't know how it keeps getting worse and worse the more I read, I haven't seen any silver linings at all in this study.
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• When a school enacts a policy of self-identification, it is mistakenly allowing for a medical treatment to take place without the consent of a medical professional.

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• The affirmative response to a child’s gender distress departs from every other professional response in a mental health context

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• If a child disclosed to a teacher or professional that they were dating or flirting with an adult, that professional would not accept at face value that the child’s feelings of certainty or emotional understanding about that situation offset the safeguarding concern. Similarly, if a child disclosed that they were experiencing some form of restrictive eating, that child would not be affirmed in their desire not to eat. When a child expresses feelings of mental distress about their sexed body, this concern should be escalated to the DSL. There is no reason why the gravity and attention schools generally accord to other mental health conditions or safeguarding issues should not apply to gender distress. An affirmative approach is also incompatible with the concept of professional curiosity, which seeks to gain a holistic understanding of a child’s life before making assumptions about what is in the best interest for that child’s future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• A further insight revealed by our FOI research is that a small number of schools are choosing to inform ‘LGBT staff leads’ or practitioners, rather than their school’s DSL, when a child discloses gender distress.

How much more evidence is required to prove that children are being indoctrinated and brain washed!!!
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• Bringing in an post holder such as an LGBT practitioner from an external agency to deal with an internal safeguarding issue is not appropriate – this should fall under the remit of the DSL.

Again how much more evidence is required to prove that children are being indoctrinated and brain washed!!!
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• Schools are even stating that children have confidentiality rights, which is untrue. Schools should not be keeping secrets – confidentiality should never be promised to a child on any matter.

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• The undermining of parental responsibility with regard to their child’s welfare is prevalent. Returning to the comparison with other mental health conditions, a teacher or school would be expected to inform a parent immediately if their child was experiencing suicidal ideation.

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• Affirmative practice appears to have distorted the concept of parental support.

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• Parents who do not consent to unlicensed medical intervention on their child at school are not unsupportive, and certainly do not present as an automatic safeguarding risk.

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• The law and the safeguarding principles based upon it is very clear: ‘unless the contrary is shown’ parents should always be involved with regard to a child’s welfare.

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• Multiple schools expressed the sentiment that a child would be encouraged to inform their parents of their new gender ‘when they felt ready’ or ‘in their own time’. This is a clear breach of safeguarding.

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• Compelled speech is concerning – a child should not be expected to say or believe that a girl is a boy or vice versa, nor should they be expected to state their own pronouns.

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• Sex segregation is an important safeguard for preventing harm. The fact that sexual boundaries are being compromised affects all children within school.

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• Regardless of a child’s chosen gender, they are protected under the law on the basis of their biological sex. As such, both socially transitioned children and their peers should be segregated where appropriate on the basis of their sex, not their chosen gender.

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• What is more, an Ofsted review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges published in 2021 found that sexual harassment is prevalent and rising in schools, and is more prevalent by boys on girls.

This is what happens when you let teenagers going through puberty mix in changing rooms and bathrooms, its disgusting that we have to wait for the abuse to take place and then wait for a study to point it out before taking actions!!!!!!!!
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• Sport is arguably the most obvious example of where single-sex exceptions are necessary in order to uphold safeguarding principles.

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• Safeguarding in sport as ‘the process of protecting children and adults from harm by providing a safe space in which to play sport and be active.

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• Single-sex sports is not just about fairness, but privacy and dignity too.

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• In 2022, charity Women in Sport conducted a survey of teenage girls and boys, finding that more than one million girls (43 per cent) disengaged with sport at secondary school. Reasons for this included: a fear of feeling judged by others, lack of confidence, pressures of schoolwork and not feeling safe outside.183 Single-sex sports protect the privacy, dignity and fairness of both sexes.

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• However, where schools set mixed-sex sports as a general rule, this is problematic – for the same reasons explained above. Guidance and the law is clear that children should be separated by sex for sports for reasons of safety and fairness. Denying the reality of biological sex does not remove sexism in sport, nor does it remove the physical risks involved with mixed-sex sports.

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• As outlined earlier, schools are expected to teach LGBT issues with political impartiality and in line with safeguarding expectations. Our research suggests many schools are departing significantly from these criteria.

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• As part of the curriculum, it is clear that many schools are teaching gender identity beliefs as if they are facts. Gender identity beliefs are beliefs, not facts.

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• The statutory guidance states: Pupils should be taught the facts and the law about sex, sexuality, sexual health and gender identity in an age-appropriate and inclusive way. In this way the guidance fails to elucidate that gender identity beliefs are beliefs not facts.

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• A logic which espouses that a person’s innate and ineffable feelings are more determinative of their identity than their chromosomal DNA – is frequently finding its way into the curriculum.

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• There is no circumstance in which a child should be encouraged to believe they have been born in the wrong body simply because they do not conform to the gender stereotypes associated with their biological sex.

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• The government guidance on working with external agencies is very clear – organisations which promote gender stereotypes or suggest that gender non-conformity means a child may in fact be a different sex are not appropriate.

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• Again everything in italics is my interpretation. Stonewall is one of the fundamental organisations that has lead us to this destructive dystopia we live in today, they started with good intensions and influenced a large array of organisations and political parties however they where co-opted by the Trans movement somewhere between 2008-2014. At a time when stonewall had already gained trust, influence and power with: HM Prison Service • Welsh Assembly Government • Department of Trade and Industry • Equalities and Human Rights Commission • Department for health • Home Office • Scottish Government • Greater London authority • Foreign Commonwealth Office.

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• Stonewall quickly became the authoritative voice on LGB education.

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• Stonewall had: • trained nearly 700 teachers on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying • sent resources to 46,000 individuals and organisations • trained more than 60 local organisations to deliver Stonewall programmes to local schools (est. reach 12000 pupils by 2016) • reached 5000 pupils through their School Role Models programme.

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• With the support of big business, cross-party political endorsement, local authorities and government funding, Stonewall had become the authoritative voice on LGB education within schools.

How far does this conspiracy rabbit hole go. Reminds me of the quote 'Die a Hero or live long enough to become the Villain'.
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• In 2015, Stonewall also launched its ‘Trans Advisory Group’ to help develop their transgender strategy.

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• The reason for outlining how Stonewall formed its transgender mission is important. As schools, businesses and government departments were outsourcing their LGB strategy to Stonewall, with no internal expertise of its own, it appears Stonewall was outsourcing its own ‘T’ strategy to transgender activists. As the authoritative voice that had become so well-established within classrooms, HR departments and local councils across the UK, presumably it was felt there was little need to scrutinise Stonewall on the credibility of its new mission.

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• Stonewall’s mission changed but it retains its influence.

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• Transgender rights movement is considerably more complex. This is because it sets out as a static and objective reality that every child has an innate sense of their gender which is by default more determinative of their identity than their sex.

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• Given the primacy accorded to gender identity, the only viable solution when presented with a gender-distressed child is affirmation. Stonewall’s solution is presented very simply: affirmation to the point of irreversible medical intervention is necessary in order to respect the authority of a child’s gender identity – even if this treatment is not ultimately in the child’s best interests.

This is satanic!
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• With vast amounts of public money behind them and the DfE itself fully subscribed, Stonewall began producing a number of school resources in which they again outsourced the ‘T’ in their mission by collaborating with transgender charity Gendered Intelligence – the same charity whose spokesperson had criticised them several years earlier.

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• Stonewall moved away from educating schools on their legal and ethical obligations for equality, and began advising them to go beyond the law in order to embed political beliefs within their ethos.

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• Stonewall’s conflation of gay rights with gender identity is problematic when viewed through the lens of safeguarding, because affirmative practice associated with gender identity beliefs is not a onesize-fits-all solution.

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• In June 2022, The Telegraph reported that Ofsted had been downgraded schools’ ratings, citing ‘lack of teaching on gender identity’ as a reason.

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• Concerns about Stonewall’s agenda have been growing over the last several years. In March 2021, Ofsted confirmed they had paused their membership to Stonewall.

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• In 2022, the then Education Secretary Michelle Donelan stated that DfE’s Stonewall membership had expired. She confirmed that the department would not be renewing it.

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• With Stonewall’s endorsement of gender identity beliefs fully embedded within schools, a number of other organisations with similar missions have begun working with schools, some of which received significant government funding. Similarly to Stonewall, all of these organisations work under umbrella aims of LGBT inclusion and anti-bullying. The Proud Trust, its affiliated award scheme the Rainbow Flag Award and Diversity Role Models were organisations named by some of the schools we sent FOI requests to.

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• A large number of schools we asked had worked with the Proud Trust (TPT), either directly or through downloadable resources.

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• Further highlighted by SSA is TPT’s Sex and relationship guide for lesbian and bisexual women from 2016, which remains on their website. In its glossary it offers a definition of lesbian which is completely at odds with what same-sex attraction actually is – which is attraction to the same sex, not same gender. As SSA highlights: ‘Stating that a lesbian is someone who identifies as a woman means that men can claim to be lesbians; this is homophobic and contributes to a culture in which lesbians are pressured to have sex with men.

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• TPT’s offering for secondary schools is the ‘The Sexuality Gender Toolkit’ aimed at pupils from age 13. Organisation Transgender Trend explains what the kit consists of. The toolkit offers several lesson plans, one of which endeavours to educate young people to communicate with their partners ‘about the kinds of sexual activities they might want to do now and in the future.’ In another lesson, pupils can play a dice game which features various genital body parts, and in partners, pupils must discuss which sexual activities might occur between those parts.

This is abhorrent they need to be shut down and people need to be arrested and charged, wtf is going on????
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• The Rainbow Flag Award addresses accusations that it breaches the Government’s RSE guidelines on teaching about gender stereotypes, stating ‘our work does not fall in scope of these concerns.’ The RFA appears to issue awards based on its own standards, and is not monitored by any external agency or regulator.

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• Diversity Role Models (DRM) is another LGBT charity that provides workshops and resources for schools. Despite offering to provide free downloadable resources, none of these are available for schools or parents to view on their website. Worksheet about acceptance containing the phrase ‘love has no age’. SSA also notes how the pack contained a book recommendation to ‘Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out’, a highly controversial book in which a child aged 6 is depicted as performing a consensual oral sex act – this is obviously not possible.

Disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!