Many thanks to all your support you have shown in the difficult spring season I have faced as a neurodivergent individual obsessed with calendars and dates – we officially crossed the 150 signatures threshold today on April 7th, two days after my awful anti-Easter “Alice in Wonderland Day”.

Sharing my story to the world and on the change.org platform has been a massive help for me as a neurodivergent individual, as it has helped me feel less “alone” in my unique Easter celebration on Sunday, March 22nd 2026 and has helped me get through the dreaded Alice in Wonderland Day which I had been dreading since May last year. 

Due to the looming five-week Easter date gap in 2027, I am predicting there will be many more campaigns and petitions on this website nearer the time about schools and institutions by Orthodox Christian residents so this campaign (although primarily about fixing Easter to March 22nd within the next 30 years) has acted as a “head start” to the looming problems for the troublesome year coming and all the new campaigns and petitions I am predicting to see on this website!

Although the primary goal is to fix Easter to March 22nd within the next 30 years, I urge the Orthodox community residing in countries like the UK, The Republic of Ireland and the USA to sign this petition too as this campaign is also for the Orthodox community residing in these countries as they rarely get bank holidays and extra time off for their religious observances. 

I hope to reach 200 signatures by April 25th (the latest date for Easter) and for the issue about the earliest Western Easter date to be addressed to the world, seeing the earliest possible date has already been a reality for the millions of Orthodox Christians currently walking this Earth (and taking part in their own celebrations this weekend) so we must not be barred from the having the same experience as the Orthodox community. 

Preparing for my March 22nd 2026 Easter celebration was tough, as I had to start my Christmas shopping exceptionally early to allow me to amend all those “Busy Bee birthdays” diaries from Amazon.co.uk marking March 22nd 2026 as Easter Sunday for my closest friends and family, and had to explain to them I was “two weeks ahead” of them with my personal liturgical calendar, as I had to observe all related Lenten feasts two weeks earlier than 99.9999999% of the world and being in a small, almost non-existent minority for my personal Easter observance was tough. 

I urge the Orthodox community across the globe (who saw their earliest possible Easter date LESS than 20 years ago, and latest LESS than 50 years ago) to keep reading my petition updates and keep signing my petition just to understand what its like to be barred from naturally experiencing our full range of Easter dates. This is wholeheartedly why this petition exists, because it isn’t fair that one branch of Christianity can see their full range of Easter dates while another branch cannot.

2011 and 2037 - two “mirror image” years:

Although in both years the Western and Orthodox Easter dates coincide, they represent different extremes within their respective date ranges

2011 was a rare year when the Western date fell on its second-latest possible date, yet although Orthodox Easter fell on that same “physical” day, the 2011 Orthodox Easter date was a full TWO WEEKS EARLIER than its latest possible date despite both celebrations taking place at literally the same time!

2037 (the year I have stopped targeting for the proposed change) is the exact polar opposite of 2011 as the Western date falls exactly TWO WEEKS LATER than it’s earliest possible date (the 11 year anniversary of "Alice in Wonderland Day"), the Orthodox Easter date is only one day later than the absolute earliest date which occurred in 2010.

The post on the BarbaraWalter4Scale post should have been titled “No one alive today has seen or will ever see Easter occur on March 22nd on the GREGORIAN calendar” because even that post refuses to acknowledge the Orthodox minority who HAVE seen their “March 22nd 2010” Easter on the Julian calendar, so even that post which prompted me to launch this campaign refuses to acknowledge Julian calendar Orthodox Easter dates, who themselves face difficulties in Western countries like the UK with the lack of bank holidays and the United States. 

Regardless of the petition’s outcome, creating this petition has been an achievement on its own as I have shared my very unique story with the rest of the world about my very unique celebration of Easter and has been heard by all my fellow supporters who have helped me through this difficult time with seeing Easter signs advertise for the “wrong day”. 

Thank you all for your support and helping me during this difficult time!