Don't like the word "birthday"

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I'm not too fond of the word birthday as it seems nonsensical to me. Even tho all words are just terms associated to things I don't have the same feeling for them as I do with "birthday". Also on my birthday I never make it a big deal when I ask my friends if they'd like to spend some time together that day. I always just ask them "Hey wanna hang out?". I think the reason I don't bring up the fact that is my birthday is because I don't want them to feel entitled to spend time with me just because this day is considered more than just a "normal day". I was wondering if any of you do things similar to the way I go about asking people if they'd like to hang out on your birthday.

well no, i like my birthday and i like it when people wish me a happy birthday.

My real birth day occurred in 1957. The days society decides to call birthday are anniversaries of a person's birth.

I'm not really into my birthday either thou I liked getting cake & presents as a kid but it was mostly my parents who celebrated it with me. I never really had friends I did stuff with outside of school.

I love celebrating my birthday with my family, and would be very disappointed if I couldn't. It's one of the highlights of the year for me. I don't care if that makes me childish; I very much enjoy the food, cake and togetherness and I can still get excited about gifts.
Outside my family, I prefer no one to know when my birthday is. It just makes me uncomfortable when people know and only give me 'a happy birthday" because social convention dictates that they do (to quote Sheldon Cooper). I don't even want friends to know. For me, birthday is private and all about family and no one else.

If I can, I will be at home that day, and only spend time with loved ones.


I don't have a problem with the word birthday. I don't care if it's really the anniversary. Likewise, here we also say 'wedding day' about the wedding day anniversaries, and I've never reacted to that either. It's just what it's called.

I'd prefer to acknowledge my conception date, if only I knew it. It seems bizarre to me to only recognize that life starts from the moment you first moved from one place to another, as if you didn't exist before that.

I don't like birthdays now because it's just another reminder that I have no friends and a dwindling family. When I was a child I liked to receive presents of course, but once I was in school it became a source of anxiety because it was the tradition in England to give birthday boys "the bumps", so I had to keep quiet about it and hope that nobody found out.

you only have one birthday. all the rest are just anniversaries of that day.

The DOB is personal info that other people don't need to know.

Most people are sexist and think it's ok to ask a man how old he is whereas they consider it rude to ask a woman the same question. So I have often had to tell persistent people that it's not their business. For that reason I avoid talking about birthdays.

Also in the past when I carelessly told some people that it happened to be my birthday they insisted to pay for my meal. So now I keep quiet about my birthday.

I absolutely hate birthdays, both mine and occasionally others' as well.
I hate the perceived pressure of having to go to someone's birthday party just because "everyone else is going" and it's their birthday.
I think I hate my birthday just because I automatically gain a whole heap of unwanted attention for the day. I turn my phone off on my birthday now; I no longer care if it's rude or not.

When I first read that, all I could think of was Jangles the Clown in Inside Out. "Did you say...BIRTHDAY?". But I could relate. Some people fixate on hating certain words. I don't do that, but I know a boy who doesn't like the number eight, which is rather odd if you ask me.

I like my birthday and my friends birthday because I like getting gifts and giving her gifts and I find the birthdays a decent occasions to met (we rarely met without any occasion because meetings always make me tired and I need more motivation then just "it was a long time since we seen each other").
I just invite her and maybe one or two other friends on my birthday and she does the same for hers, then we eat something, talk and watch anime.

However I hate my parents birthdays and birthdays of other family members. I hate the loud meetings with a bunch of people who ask me why I don't have a boyfriend yet etc. I don't invite my family members on my birthday either. Only my parents are allowed to participate - because I live with them so it can't be helped.

Btw. "Birthday" in my language is called "urodziny" which I find quite a disturbing name. I am aware of how the word was created - "rodzić" means "giving birth". But the "Urodziny" sounds just like (wizyta) "u rodziny" which means (a visit) "to family","in a family's house"). It makes no sense! During a "birthday" the family is supposed to visit you, not you visit your family...

I still look forward to my birthday. But then again, it's usually not much more than a present or two, cake, and dinner with my parents (and maybe my grandmother). My birthday is on February 9th which isn't that long after Christmas, but I don't have the stress of trying to buy gifts or doing any kind of shopping around the holidays, putting up all my decorations, keeping my cats from tearing them down, being around tons of people, and screaming whining snotting kids. No wonder Santa's so jolly. They always have to be asleep when he arrives, and he only does it once a year. Although those elves must get pretty annoying.