How does anyone cope with Christmas and New Year social expectations? Although I have very few friends, there's the obligation to buy presents which seems to have become swapping boxes of chocolates, chocolate biscuits or bottles of something. Not forgetting the 'unwanted/unneeded' gifts. Christmas cards to people you don't 'know'.
Fortunately (or not) we don't have any extended family who we feel obliged to invite for Christmas dinner - just as well as cooking is just not my thing!!
Now, I face a dilemma - hubs is a social animal which goes against the grain of us AuDHD'ers. Another, sort of, fortunate thing is that we have a 'holiday lodge' on an Isle of Wight holiday park, so we leg it down there. Yes, parties, but somehow the 'friends' we have down there are few and far between, plus they're not neighbours and seldom see them, so when I make a complete idiot of myself it's not as bad as being at home. I cope by having too many bevvies and spending all my time on the dance floor. I know they think I'm crazy down there, so being crazy and old kinda lets me get away with it - well that's what I keep trying to tell myself!
What do you do?
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