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Do you like christmas?

Kay

This is my least fave time of year.

My family consistently throw a big Christmas party and I'm sure they know it unsettles me but they still do it anyway. Loud music. Loads of people. A whole weekend of this and I'm trapped in the house. I like Christmas music if it's played quietly and the decorations can look nice but the busy city and large gatherings make it a really unsettling time for me and when my house is suddenly like it as well I get the usual sense of dread.

Yesterday my parents informed me this year there will be another party for me to endure. My dad says if I don't like it I could move. I will move out for definite when I can afford it, money is tight as I've only just got in to the workplace and my chosen job nursery assistant the pay sucks LMAO so for now I'm having to save and save and save to afford the finer luxury of escaping my parents house. Sadly despite my trying to explain about autism they don't get it. I'll be 25 next year and I'm hoping at some point then I'll be able to look in to renting an apartment, if I can afford Londons rather expensive properties.

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  • At age 54 now, after 30 years in supermarket retailing, what I can’t stand about Christmas is the over-commercialisation of it, totally overlooking the real reason for the season, that of Christ’s Birth, which to myself as a traditional Catholic, this is what I focus on - I’ve been told by my Muslim friends (who know that I’m Catholic) that it’s the same with Eid in Muslim countries where they feel that it’s too commercialised - I’ll never forget Christmas 2020 as long as I live, living alone in the U.K., separated from family in Ireland and in Covid lockdown, unable to travel, only able to see family in Ireland via Zoom and only able to attend Mass in Ireland via webcam as the Irish Covid restrictions were much stricter, went on for far longer, were far more draconian and much more fiercely enforced than the U.K. where for the first time, the Irish police in many parts of Ireland were routinely and visibly armed and which still exists to the present day, as the concept of policing by consent no longer exists in Ireland - I recall seeing a webcam shot from Ireland of our local parish church of the crib and it was the most pitiful sight that I’ve ever seen 

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  • At age 54 now, after 30 years in supermarket retailing, what I can’t stand about Christmas is the over-commercialisation of it, totally overlooking the real reason for the season, that of Christ’s Birth, which to myself as a traditional Catholic, this is what I focus on - I’ve been told by my Muslim friends (who know that I’m Catholic) that it’s the same with Eid in Muslim countries where they feel that it’s too commercialised - I’ll never forget Christmas 2020 as long as I live, living alone in the U.K., separated from family in Ireland and in Covid lockdown, unable to travel, only able to see family in Ireland via Zoom and only able to attend Mass in Ireland via webcam as the Irish Covid restrictions were much stricter, went on for far longer, were far more draconian and much more fiercely enforced than the U.K. where for the first time, the Irish police in many parts of Ireland were routinely and visibly armed and which still exists to the present day, as the concept of policing by consent no longer exists in Ireland - I recall seeing a webcam shot from Ireland of our local parish church of the crib and it was the most pitiful sight that I’ve ever seen 

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