Progress update [week 33]

Dear dr. Bikert,

I hope this email finds you in good health, I’m aware you have been feeling under the weather for the past few days so hopefully you will be back with us soon. I am aware dr. weller usually writes to you with the weekly updates, however this week I insisted I step in. I’m having serious concerns about Atticus’s progres With me. Physically he is doing well, I assume you received the growth charts sent over by the pediatric team. I am told everything is in check and where it should be. this does not, however, line up with my findings in his mental acuity tests. Atticus is, for lack of a better word, mentally Impaired. He shows a drastic lack of critical thinking skills as well as a gap in basic knowledge. I can’t help but get frustrated with him. It is my job to keep his mental health under watch and I am finding this task increasingly more difficult as I find it hard to discern weather his appalling lack of intelligence stems from his transformation or he is simply not very smart. I find it difficult to believe he made It through collage. im sure you are aware of the fact that we but heads but I can assure you I write this email with the intention to help and address the problems I find. i’ll send over all of the formal charts later today, however I think a more practical demonstration of my concerns can be found in this transcript of his most recent YouTube video. I discourage his video making nonsense however he continues to produce frankly frightening content. Please read the attached file and get back to me with your thoughts. I have annotated the transcript with a bit of it with context. I believe it’s best to restrict his internet access so he can focus more fully on his job, however I need you to sign off. 

thanks,

dr. Franklin 

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[opening transcript]

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[animated intro plays] (note: the intro is quite janky and clearly done himself. While I support Atticus‘s creative endeavors watching this is one of the few times I am glad he went into biology and not art)  

[thresher] HI ALL! WHAT IS UP SHARK BAIT FAM?! (Note: What he calls his “subscribers”) its thresher here! Back with another epic video!! Don’t forget to like and subscribe to join the shark bait family and never miss a video!! Ok guys, I am SUPER exited for today because I am going to be answering some of your most asked questions!! That’s right! I’m finally going to be telling you everything you want to know about me and my life here at the lab! (Note: I do not condone him sharing anything about him or his treatment online) So let’s just get started! I think a few of you knew this was coming, because in my last video I asked you all to send me some questions to answer. That was the one where I tried to name science equipment that I had never seen before. Just to let you know I am going into this COMPLETELY BLIND so I have not seen any of  your questions yet. I did ask you guys to keep things on topic and only comment with questions so hopefully their won’t be to much spam! Alright let’s get into things! so I have the comments pulled up here on my phone and let’s just go through them. Starting off we have @icup, interesting name, and icup says.. “first”. Ok so that’s not a question. It’s fine, it’s fine I’ll just keep going. Next up we have @main_state_reserch_lab_official, that’s weird why would they be commenting- oh I bet I know who this is, ok so they say “great video thresher. Can you please remember to put the erlenmeyer flasks back when your done with them” ok yeah so that was probably dr. bloom, she let me use her office for the video. (Note: please speak to dr. Bloom about this. He should not be allowed near dangerous equipment without supervision from a staff member) I can’t remember if I put everything back.. I hope so, it was really nice of her to let me in there. Anyway that was also not a question so let’s keep going. next we have @healthnation, AH OK this one looks like a question! Health nation writes.. “what are you waiting for?” Um ok so I don’t really know what that- oh here wait theres more “what are you waiting for?... click here now to get started with a free moth of protein shake plus!!” Alright that was not a real question either. Dam guys your really disappointing me, I thought there would be more questions. lets see if theirs anything else- oh, ok so that was the end of the comments. There are no more comments. That’s it. Uh well I’m not sure what to do now if you guys didn’t send me anything. How about.. uh.. I’ll just look up some questions online! Ok That should give me some good stuff. (Note: I cut the Following sequence out as it takes up almost twenty minuets and it is just unedited footage of Atticus browsing the internet. At one point he takes a buzz feed quiz and he gets up to get a snack twice) ok guys! sorry that took so long but I think this looks good. ”101 questions to ask you best friend“ were friends right? Maybe not best friends, tadashi is my best friend. Ok then let’s just go down the list I guess. Number one is ”did you have any pets growing up?” yes is did, I had a cat who I don’t remember the name of and I think I had some fish. Number two is “do you have any allergies?” Not right now but In elementary school I had a bunch. I grew out of them, but I had to wear one of those rubber wrist bands that has everything Your allergic to on it. I used to be allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, dogs, and horse. I grew out of the food but I’m still allergic to dogs, and I’ve never seen a horse in my life so who knows about them. it’s funny, I used to have to carry around epi-pens with me whenever we went on field trips and I was messing around with my friends one time and I pulled out what I thought was the blank one to show them how it works. I used it as a joke on my friend but it turns out it wasn’t the training one and it actually had a needle in it. anyway it didn’t matter after that because i wasn’t allowed on any more field trips I also was allowed to carry around my own epi-pens. Where was I? Oh right, question three “what is your favorite holiday” Halloween! I don’t really like the scary stuff but I think dressing up is fun and I like candy. Did you know the first Halloween I can ever remember I went as a shark? now I guess I don’t need a costume. Although- (Note: at this point the Video cuts out and another bad animation comes on that reads “oops my computer ran out of battery and I forgot to film the rest of the video :( please like and subscribe!“ that is the end. I hope you find this as concerning as I do. There is a lot to go over in this video alone, you haven't even see the other ones. Hopefully once your back in the office we can meet face to face and have a discussion)