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Some folks find that they move in a very linear fashion through the six stages of the Cass model. Others jump around a bit, skip stages, go back, and generally travel through them like an Upstate New York driver in March, skidding and swerving down a pothole-filled street. People can actually move across several stages in the very same day. For example, let’s think about a college student who is in the identity synthesis stage on campus. They are out to all their friends and they speak freely about their identity. Then they return home for Thanksgiving to a family that has indicated that being LGBTQ+ is not okay, and they slide back into the identity tolerance stage, hiding their identity and feeling unhappy about who they are. People may spend a lifetime jumping around in the different stages, depending on whom they are with and how open and accepting the environment feels.