Published on 12, July, 2020
I personally quite like Christmas. I know it’s very common as an autistic person not to. I love lights (as long as it’s not too intense), I love the Christmas music, the smells of roasts and tinsel (although everyone says tinsel doesn’t have a sent I highly disagree) I love the happy atmosphere that I feel when Christmas is around. Christmas is my prime time to get a visual kick out of staring at it all with out thinking everyone is staring at me because they are all looking at the lights too.
however I do hate the busyness of everywhere and how awkward it is to open gifts in front of people.
what are your thoughts on Christmas?
I love this time of year thanks to the chill, it means fewer people outside being annoying (summer makes Brits behave in a leery fashion). Going for a walk in the countryside in winter is magical.
But I can't stand the whole capitalist regime of it all - the constant repeat of the songs I've heard 50,000 times already now. The horrendous adverts and their cosy sheen and falsities. Urghhhh. Sends a shiver down my spine!!
Bah humbug I suppose. 30 years ago and I would've been impossibly excited at this time of year. I've become so cynical!
That’s okay you can still like this time of year even if you don’t enjoy Christmas! I can imagine 20/30 years ago Christmas was very different. It wasn’t about the latest gaget the kids were getting it was about time with family. I remember not even 10 years ago (making me 13) my mum would grab the good old Argos catalogue and told me to fold pages of things I like and start making a list to send to Santa (I still believed up until 18) I do miss being a little kid when school would take us to the pantomime and the last week before Christmas holidays was fun films and crafts