Aspies VS Halloween

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I've never been a fan of it, personally. I like candy. I like carving pumpkins. But I always dreaded having to dress up in a costume and dealing with all that.

I wish every day was Halloween.

I don't think I minded the dressing up when I was a child, but now as an adult---I don't like to participate in it. At the school where I teach, the teachers are wanting to dress up for Halloween. I don't want to as it makes me feel uncomfortable. I probably will come to school on that day in regular clothes.

What do we think? I think, and this is just me, that the older women get, it's still okay to dress up and go to halloween parties. On the other hand, guys need to think twice. The older we get the more gay it becomes, plus I might be arrested at my age for being a candy begger. When guys reach the fifth grade it's time to toss it aside.

That is on of the most imbecilic phrases known to humankind. It would only be "gay" if the person dressing up is homosexual or their costume conveyed something relating to homosexuality.

I don't party and I'm obviously too old to trick or treat, but I love Halloween. I have decorated my room or apartment wherever I have been living for years. I love the macabre, and I like wearing costumes. I just haven't had occasion to wear one in a few years.

THIS!

Reading that made me want to do it even more. Brunch, witty banter, and fun parties, gay things are great things.

That is changing.. We had bonfire night (november 5) as I was growing up but that is dying... killed by health and safety rules - my parents held their own bonfire and we'd invite the neighbours and set off fireworks and wave sparklers, eat toffee apples etc. it was great fun.

Now everyone goes to 'organised' displays. They have to stay so far back from the bonfire that they can't even feel any heat from it. Sparklers are banned. The available food is a burger van. The 'display' lasts Max. 20 minutes then everyone goes home. For this they charge £10 a head. As a result fewer and fewer go each year..

OTOH Halloween* parties are becoming big business as the supermarkets can make a fortune selling themed tat. Trick or treating will never be big here due to safety concerns (we get one every couple of years) and the sheer tastelessness of teaching a child to basically say 'give me sweets or face the consequences'. It's also widely seen as an American import and rejected for that reason - which is ironic because it was us Brits that invented the darn thing (poor kids would go around the neighbourhood on this day being given cakes in return for singing hymns and praying.. a bit like caroling as Christmas).

Halloween parties are aimed exclusively at young children here - the idea of an adult going to one unless accompanying a child would be seen as distinctly weird.

* Halloween is literally 'All Hallows Eve' or the day before All Hallows(Saints) Day. Of course as with other days it was carefully picked to coincide with existing pagan rituals to supplant them - more or less successful in the case of Easter and Christmas.. less so in this case.

I like Halloween, though I can't stand dressing as someone or something else so you'll never see me trick or treating. But I would like the candy.

My friends and I used to go door to door singing Christmas carols instead of saying 'trick or treat', it got us some odd looks for sure...

Usually for halloween, I like being the door greeter/candy hander. I'm bubbly enough in my personality that I can pull it off (usually the biggest pill here is my dog-- a jerkface cocker who thinks he has to bark at everything). I don't care for heavy dressup myself though, I hate face paint, because it reminds me of that one horrid halloween when i was 7 when my younger sister (6) and I dressed up like witches, complete with our green paint all over our faces, hats, and long black fingernails that we kept on losing, and since the american midwest that day decided that it was going to be torrential downpour back in '91, we wore trashbags over what remained of our costumes (by that point, our hats were horribly mishapen too from being wet). We had green paint pouring everywhere (it even stained the hat and our clothes underneath it as well). So between the sensation of wet trashbags, and smeary green paint running down my face, that halloween wasn't a great memory in the sensory department at all. Usually all the dressup I do these days is I will put together something dark colored with splashes of red, and put on my clay horns that my bf bought me at the renn faire.

In terms of other halloween festivities, I like the way a finished pumpkin looks, but sensory wise I absolutely detest the slimy sensation of pulling pumpkin innards out.

I love Halloween, mostly because I like seeing the spooky decorations and I like putting scary masks on. I also think the holiday fits into the season. The middle-end of Autumn always appears and feels spooky when the deciduous trees all drop their leaves and they look like skeletons and the grass gets dry and brown and it all looks dead. However, parties are definitely not appealing. I prefer to enjoy the holiday and the decorations alone or with people that I know extremely well and no one else.

One year when I was in the midst of fascination with India, I went as an Indian street beggar child. Another year I took my mom's eyeliner and copied the makeup on the cover of her record of the opera Mephistofeles. Try explaining that. I love costumes.

Halloween, like most holidays, depress me. Everybody's running around having fun and I'm at home watching the four walls. At least I have four walls to watch. Could be much much worse.

A couple of years ago, my nephew's three or four year old daughter dressed up as a bee and her oldest brother dressed up as a bee keeper.

I thought that was pretty funny.

But here's the best Halloween costume of all:

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