Aspies VS Halloween

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I love Halloween even as an adult and going to parties. I've noticed that several Protestant churches do have a harvest festival instead of Halloween, and those attending aren't allowed to dress as devils or wear other scary costumes. After all, they would rather focus on it being autumn and the traditional harvest. With the trick or treating, I do have to bring in my pumpkin and other decorations early because teenagers tend to smash pumpkins in the street and destroy other decorations after the trick or treating is done.

It actually is a Christian Holiday. The name is an abbreviation of "All Hallow's Eve", which is the night before "All Saints Day". Like most things, insane christians started labeling it as satanic for no reason even though it was originally a christian thing, like to a degree, Heavy Metal. Just look at the actual lyrics to a few Black Sabbath songs and you realize that they were very anti-satan.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkmyZ8juZWw[/youtube]

I love Halloween ever since we got kids. Candies, decorations, fireworks and costumes are all good fun. I especially love making our own costumes. We're making minecraft costumes this year. Store bought costumes never win prizes or competitions.

We live in a very secular area and everyone is rather relaxed about Halloween. As long as kids don't dress up as anything "sexy" the schools are OK with just about anything.

Halloween isn't that big in Australia. I've never celebrated it because my parents have always believed it's an over commercialised thing which it kind of is (in recent years I've noticed the supermarkets promoting it much more).

I liked it until an old couple shouted at me and my sister

I'm not a big fan but I don't hate it. I'm not sad to see it pass behind me.

I agree with Treblecake, but I do like to watch horror movies on Halloween with a pizza.

My girlfriend and I have friends that throw an annual party. We've seen other couples do themes before. This is the first year we'll go with a theme we'll both participate in. I'll be a mad scientist. She'll be my lab rat. <:3)~~

Love it man. My second favorite holiday after Christmas
Richard Funfact - I registerd On halloween because I like it so much

http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view ... bor-totoro

I went to Holloween themed birthday party in a totoro costume (which was warm and comfortable unlike some other peoples costumes). Of course I had to spend the whole evening explaining what totoro was.
In australia Holloween is starting to get popular from what i can see, there are plenty of holloween products in the shops and some places have trick or treating.

the way that works in these neighbourhoods is that if u want trick or treaters to come u put balloons on your letterbox, and that lets them know that they are welcome.

what i usually do at holloween is just buy some lollies in case trick or treaters show up (which is very rare in my neighbourhood).

I've always loved Halloween, but NOT the parties. I love the time of year, the candy, the spookiness, the costumes, etc. It was always my 2nd favourite holiday, even as an adult when I stopped dressing up.

Yeah, that's always bothered me a little, too. Halloween is not big here, but on the few occasions I got trick-or-treaters I was tempted to say "trick". (I didn't, though, since I realise they're only kids and they're not the ones who came up with the idea.)



Indeed. Snopes even has two separate articles on the issue:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp

Summary: random poisoning rumours are false (0 documented cases); random sharp object rumours are true, but blown wildly out of proportion (10 documented cases of even minor injury, worst case requiring several stitches).

...but to call it "the devil's" holiday makes no sense. Its original purpose was about dressing up in scary costumes to scare away all the evil spirits. If it's about scaring away evil spirits, how in the hell is that "the devil's holiday?" I could see if we made giant statues of satan and bowed down to them on the holiday, then that would be the devil's holiday, but that's not the case.

Also, most people in america at the very least CALL themselves christians, and I only ever knew of one house that specifically didn't celebrate halloween in my town. Everybody else was either busy doing other stuff sometimes, or they gave out candy. Sometimes they'd have a bowl full of candy with a sign that said "take just one please," which nobody ever did.

I don't particularly like halloween as it does nothing for me whatsoever.

In my house it has been a hard holiday to deal with.

To start I was born on Halloween. My Grandfather was born on Halloween and my youngest daughter was as well. You can't have 3 generations share a birthday and NOT have it be a big deal esp when it is a holiday.

Yet as my Aspie daughter has grown up I have had to take her into account and sometimes that is easier said than done. It is heart breaking for her to set her mind on a costume she HAS to have for it to be to itchy or scracthy and she can't stand it.

Or when it is time to go trick or treating and suddenly she is too scared to go to the door.

Now that she is a pre-teen the issue is haunted houses. She always wants to go with her older siblings to the haunted houses but her sensory issues makes that impossible. She can't deal with the lights and the noise of a haunted house.

She had a major melt down at not getting to go this year. She called me mean. I told her to have them go first let them tell her what it was like and then we could consider the idea. They came home talking about the guy with the chainsaw with no chain but still made the loud sound of the chain saw and that was enough. She was glad I said no.

I know as she gets older this will be more of an issue. She asks why she can't be normal. She wants sound and lights not to bother her. She wants to be able to make friends the way kids in school do. She mentioned being bullied for not going to a haunted house this year. She tells the kids mom won't let her go because she of allergies. (She is allergic to latex and being around a latex mask can cause her problems and fog machines cause her asthma attacks. ) The allergy reasons went over better with peers than sensory issues.

Halloween is nothing more than noise, alcohol, drugs, sluts, animal abuse and violent crimes.