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Yeah, I think Donald never really addresses the evidence he found of Maggie's suicide attempt. Not directly. He just doesn't know what to do! it does affect him, like, he can see how deeply affected she is, and WANTS to help, but feels utterly unequipped to do so, and mostly comes down feeling like even if he tried to address it he'd only make it worse... so yes, he's very much like Maeve in that way. or, she gets it from him :P I don't think he ever forgets, though.

re: Maeve telling that story to anyone. That's actually something I think about a LOT when it comes to most of the uncomfortable to traumatic situations i invented to put maeve in lol. like I wanna force her to unpack them, and force her to share them so she could hear someone else's reaction and like hear, that's terrible, that's not ok, you didn't deserve that. But at the same time I think most of these things she never would talk about. Even the version of her that's all mature and healthy by the end of TMDOMS, even in the post-TMDOMS world I imagine where she gets roped into doing therapy with Elena... I still have trouble imagining how she would realistically get to talking about any of these things. I think your suggestion about something coming up where her immunity to toxic things/poisons is relevant and someone asking her how she knows that is a way that particular story might come up. It's tough because I really WANT to imagine how those conversations would play out but at the same time, the fact that they're repressed feels so fundamental to them and to maeve's character? and in a way I think that's why her relationship with her dad is important, even if they never talk about those things aloud - the fact that he simply KNOWS what she went thru as a kid (or at least most of it) - he has a level of understanding that no one else will ever have. even if maeve told some version of that story to Elena or Ashley, like, they still wouldn't grasp it the same way Donald did from sitting there with Maggie sobbing covered in blood and guts on the bathroom floor, yknow?

Some other stories I often think about how/whether Maeve would ever talk about them with someone close to her (Elena/Ashley/even Connie, the therapist, once Elena gets her in there lol):

Her time on Vought Summer Clubhouse and specifically why she reacted the way she did to Mesmer (the fact that he read her mind and saw Gay Thoughts)

Kyle. everything with Kyle.

The incident in ch11 with Corey (i think this is extremely unlikely tbh, I can't imagine how she would ever see the need to bring it up, it's something she definitely doesn't want to examine)

the story of how she learned she's bulletproof/Leila

I agree that the half-birthday flashback is really cute, and one of my favorite Donald moments. Honestly, that flashback is kind of where I committed to making him more nuanced and sympathetic - it was already kinda bubbling up in my brain from the start, but establishing why Maeve hated him so much/was so messed up by him was important to get across first - and also, when writing arc 1, I wasn't 100% sure if I would have it in me to write the other story arcs that I did have generally planned at that point, so I was wary about setting up threads that I wasn't going to finish out, but I think by the time of writing that chapter I was feeling pretty good that I would continue it and get to flesh him out more, so I wanted to open that door that he was not ALL bad.

You aren't forgetting anything - I very deliberately skipped around depicting Donald's reaction to Maeve's death. Well, there's a bit of it at the end of Chapter 31 but it's very deliberately understated, and it's a skip from when Maggie's 18 all the way to Maeve's "death". Because, well, it's not that her death doesn't affect him, but he already felt like he lost her. And also that's just the sort of guy he is. Repressed. Numb. Doesn't know what to do with the grief. Doesn't even feel entitled to go to the funeral until Veronica convinces him. Disappointed not that Maeve didn't leave him a bunch of money or reconcile with him, but rather gutted that she didn't even leave a final fuck-you to him. Just sad that she moved on, didn't need him, was better off without him, after he gave everything he had and did his best at being a father but still did a shitty job. He doesn't show it a lot but he feels it. I think there's a line in that penultimate chapter where Veronica just casually talks about how depressed Donald was after Maeve's "death". I think of her as sort of Donald's "Elena", she can see past the "Teflon shit" and supports him as he deals with the emotions in his way.