#christmas rant

[atseptic]

it's the time of year again where everyone starts raving about christmas so i've got to get it out there that i really do NOT like celebrating christmas

"ok grinch" "where's your festive joy" ""wow im so different!!!"" stfu. like sorry if i'm being kinda rude about this but ive just seen too many people saying stuff like that and it gets on my nerves??? not everyone has the same experience with christmas as you do and they have their own reasons for disliking it. like hell yeah i'll be the grinch if i have to be

i've liked christmas for most of my life but once i turned 11 or something it was just over. i don't really understand most of what triggered it other than mental health deterioration, but from that age and onwards i've just never felt the same kind of joy on the 25th. i had a full on mental breakdown once at the kitchen table when having christmas dinner and i felt really bad for ruining everyone's mood.

i guess all it is really is age and health and autism?????? now that i'm older and things have gone to shit for me mentally, christmas has always felt more like a chore to go through rather than a holiday worthy of celebration. i feel obligated to react in a certain way, to talk to people, to be happy. that kind of expectation to feel some way does not feel good to me. the best part about christmas to me is the food, songs and the presents, that's all. i can't be a certain way just because of a date and a holiday, that's not how it works. doesn't make it any better that people shove it down my throat the second it turns mid august. come on, you haven't even done halloween yet (which i also do not celebrate. yippee ig?)

traditions like that just aren't for me. im tired of it and people make it such a big deal when it really isn't. its just a day. it's as normal as any other day. sure, i'll wish you merry christmas, whatever, no big deal. just leave me alone for once, i don't wanna talk about what i want to get for christmas because i don't even know or care myself. you don't even need to get me any presents, idgaf.

sorry if i'm being a bit of a downer here, i just needed to rant. you're free to celebrate whatever you wish, im not trying to make you feel unhappy about it, i just want to express my own thoughts.

[thepixelfairyy]

It is Christmas and everything is strange again.

It is Christmas and yet I am sat leaned against my kitchen counter, eating dinner cold because there was not enough chairs at the table for me to sit with everyone else.

I cooked.

I cleaned too.

And yet there was not a seat for me at the table.

It is Christmas and I was shouted at for I bought my brother the wrong colour of car.

Because my aunt wanted a ring with 4 diamonds and an emerald, not 2 diamonds and an emerald. Because my father only drinks Scottish whiskey and I got him Japanese, and my mother doesn’t like this brand of champagne.

It is Christmas, and I am sat at 8:52pm buying my own gifts because I get missed out every year. They say it is because my siblings are expensive. And that because I will understand.

I was born to understand it seems.

It is Christmas.

And I will lay in bed, roll over, and pray the clock strikes 12 and the calendar goes 26 just a little faster.

At least I do not have to deal with this for another 365 days.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays. I sincerely hope yours is better than mine. ❤️

[wanderingmind867]

One of the only aspects of Christmas I never loved: surprises. I hate surprises, and it's mostly because they always end up stressful or underwhelming. You have a present wrapped up. If you open it and it's not something you want, you get upset. If you open it and it is what you want, then somehow you're still disappointed (because you either feel let down, or because you found something minor to complain about with regards to the item). I do this stuff constantly, and i'm pretty sure it's why i like opening my Christmas gifts early. I know everyone besides my dad would probably judge me for my disappointment and negative reactions, but my dad always forgives me. And that's why I'm glad for him. And also why i'm nervous for when my grandfather shows up monday afternoon/monday night.

[cowboylikeyouu]

why are younger siblings so goddamn USELESS when it comes to getting your parents presents???? like, my 16 year old brother has NEVER bought/made a single present for our parents unless i explicitly told him what to do/buy (and then he always fucked it up somehow, so i learned my lesson). yesterday we went christmas shopping together & found something our mom would love, but i was a bit unsure bc i felt like she already had that exact thing, but my brother was like "nooo, i swear, 120% she doesn't have this one!!" and bc he's home all the time and i'm not bc I MOVED OUT GODDAMNIT i chose to trust him and we bought it.

got home today, first thing i see in my mom's room is the exact same thing we got for her. ofc i lost the receipt (i still have all the others from yesterday but ofc this one decided to disappear) so i can't even get a refund or anything 🥰🥰 and i need a new present.

and all i got from my brother was "sorry" but, of course, no new ideas, no money, no nothing. it's so infuriating, next year i'll get everything myself and he can get his own.

[tipytap]

ok so i was talking with my mom about this when we were wrapping presents on christmas eve and i feel like i need to share

i never stopped beliving in santa. well, obviously as i got older i went “ok yeah santa isnt a real person how could someone visit every house in one night and have flying raindeer and shit?” but i instead came to the realization that santa is just like many other mythological entities and dieties; the personified version of a larger idea/energy. santa is not really one person, but the idea of the christmas spirit (if we are pretry much just talking about modern western christmas traditions). specifically, i would see him as a spirit of generosity. he is the personification of giving and asking for nothing in return. in my household, even though the youngest of us (me) is 18, we still have gifts under our tree labelled “From: Santa”. do any of us belive that a jolly man from the north pole came to our house in the middle of the night to put them there? no! i even helped wrap those presents and labelled them. labelling a gift “From Santa” is effectively saying that the gift is from nobody. nobody is claiming credit for it. but you get to have it because it makes you happy. there is no guilt or obligation to reciprocate the gesture. its simply just a generous act for the sake of a generous act.

i know we are a bit past christmas at this point and we are in that weird limbo between christmas and new years, but just a thought :) dont stop beliving in santa besties

[maetharanelthatsilmarillionkid]

People in my family's been picking on me because I cheered for Mbappé during the WC, like guys, I'm a Verstappen fan, what did you expect of me??????

Than, when I said I might start cheering for PSG (I'm going to live in Europe next year), my uncle started talking about how PSG doesn't have a football tradition and a bunch of other stuff like that (mind you, he's a Bayern Munich fan) and I was like, my dude, I cheered for Ferrari and got very disappointed with a traditional team, I started cheering for red bull, I got good results and a boost of serotonin out of it... Traditional or not, if it's good, I'm definitely cheering for the team no matter the sport...

So... That's my rant out of the Christmas season... 😅

[buchichu]

Merry Christmas ARFID sufferers. Were you able to throw away what's left on your plate without an interrogation this year? No?

Maybe next year.

[dewitty1]

Time for my yearly Holiday rant - I don't care how much they play it, or who recorded how many times on how many albums for Christmas - the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound Of Music will NEVER, EVER BE A CHRISTMAS SONG.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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