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Christmas

Bluesky555

Hi. Is anybody else really struggling with the prospect of Christmas? I find Christmas tough usually anyway but this year I really really don't want to be put under lots of pressure to take part. It's making me so nervous and it's still two days away!

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  • Hi, 

    Hate it! Hate it! Hate it! The biggest, nonsensical exhibition of our capitalist culture and such a societal contradiction, it really should be criminalised! I am a confirmed Aethist - but I would be far more tolerant of the whole situation if it was treated respectively as the Christian Festival is actually meant to be. 

    This rant could continue in earnest if there wasn't already some excellent examples of the hypocrisy of it all on here. The only thing that keeps me slightly amused is the marketing tactics that are employed and the ease that they reel NT's in. My favourite: Black Friday (now a week) which has been introduced at the economical lowest point of the year. 

    In the interest of balance and to stem the flow of people calling me a Grinch - in general. Is it possible that as neurodiverse individuals we have difficulties with suspending logic and creating fictional narratives so we cannot 'buy in' to it?

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  • Hi, 

    Hate it! Hate it! Hate it! The biggest, nonsensical exhibition of our capitalist culture and such a societal contradiction, it really should be criminalised! I am a confirmed Aethist - but I would be far more tolerant of the whole situation if it was treated respectively as the Christian Festival is actually meant to be. 

    This rant could continue in earnest if there wasn't already some excellent examples of the hypocrisy of it all on here. The only thing that keeps me slightly amused is the marketing tactics that are employed and the ease that they reel NT's in. My favourite: Black Friday (now a week) which has been introduced at the economical lowest point of the year. 

    In the interest of balance and to stem the flow of people calling me a Grinch - in general. Is it possible that as neurodiverse individuals we have difficulties with suspending logic and creating fictional narratives so we cannot 'buy in' to it?

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  • in reply to Edearl

    I don't have those difficulties myself, and I think that's what enables me to 'escape' it in some sense.  I agree with you, though: the whole thing is a pantomime.  People just switch into crazy mode.  Now it's all Christmas jumpers and hats out there.  I was in my local supermarket yesterday - just went in for a loaf of bread - and people were just filling trolleys with huge amounts of stuff.  For one day! (they're open again on Boxing Day) 

    It's all about spend.  And I hate the way you seem to get judged on the amount you spent on the gift, not the thought you put into it.  One of the most enduring gifts I ever got was a pine cone, given to me by a work colleague - picked up by her and costing nothing.  I still have it.  Give me that over an expensive gewgaw any day.