Anyone else dreading Thanksgiving ?

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i should learn to dread the results of the inevitable overeating. i can't believe i ate the whole thing.

I just want anyone who isn't in my nuclear family to go home! I feel like I'm in a public place even though I'm in my own house!

I'm really worried about tomorrow. I hate how my family just thinks that they can pop in. Of course that's cuz this isn't my house. Everyone was encouraged to do this years back but as a kid I thought that I was oh so smart & had some confidence. If it were up to me just a few of us would go out to a restaurant or something.

The original plan was just my parents & then my 2 close siblings dropping by. I was slightly worried about that because my sister bosses me around & makes me spend money but I've had weeks to prepare for that.

Now another relative (who's often in prison, just not this month) calls tonight to say that he's coming with his family (who we've had a falling out from that was just starting to mend). It's not that I don't care for them but I just don't want to have to do all of this stupid small talk with these people who put me down. Last year I had a new haircut when he showed up & he laughed at me. Yeah, the criminals in my family always put me down. I remember when I was a teen & they would say things like "all you do is watch movies" because apparently it was much more respectable to go around and sell & take drugs like they did/do.

I'm freaking out. The only time that these people have treated me as an adult too (I'm almost 30) was the time that I had kept a menial job for a couple of months (my longest ever) & they were saying stuff like "oh you're acting normal".

He'll probably bring his gf too. I have nothing, no job (I'm trying to get SSI because I need help, I can only hope that my mother doesn't let that slip as she's prone to do), no friends, no bf, no car/license, etc. I hate myself so much & I do not have the ability to lie & say things like "Oh yeah, I'm great, I want to be like this".

So I'll take something & then end up being sarcastic. Fantastic.

I'm not feeling up to the festivities this year, so I get to stay home while my folks go celebrate a couple towns away from me. I get to celebrate in the best way possible: a house to myself and my golden retriever to keep me company.
It's not even the social aspect of Thanksgiving I dislike: it's the food. I hate turkey, potatoes, pumpkin, yams, and cranberries. It's amazing how there's absolutely nothing I like. That's why I avoid it.

I feel glad to have a long weekend off from college. We got today off as well. I don't look forward to tomorrow, but I don't really dread it either.

If I had a choice, I'd probably prefer to go to Spain.

I usually just eat a little bit spend like 20 to 30 mins with my family and then i go to my room lock my door. Then i cry about how awkward it was for me.

I'm dreading all the cooking and cleaning up after that I have to do. I enjoy cooking and cleaning but not when I feel that I HAVE to do it.

I have daughters to help me though, so it won't be that bad. Plus, I'm making food that people like, so I guess it's worth it.

Frances

I stayed up in my room for 90% of the time, even to eat alone.

Everyone kept asking if I was ok, and I just force a "yeah"


What's the point in explaining I have aspergers to people who don't care, and will likely just make them feel more uncomfortable. Holidays and family events have gotten increasingly difficult for me as I've gotten older.

No, I just stayed at home and dog sat while my parents went to my brother's house for the day.

It started off nice enough with my uncle and my cousin coming over, but my mother was being really strange and talking about sexual things with her brother, and it was making us all uncomfortable, including him. After she got drunk she demanded that I put ACDC on the big screen, so we watched a bunch of music videos and live performances back to back REALLY loud. She was singing or dancing or talking the entire time and it overwhelmed me so I made my escape..a while later my cousin and uncle left, and after that my mother became a raging b*tch. She ditched us, then came in a while later and screamed about how we don't pay any attention to her, and then went upstairs. She wouldn't let me go to my room for a while either and locked me out.

Weird and uncomfortable..

I woke up wanting to stay home. I went anyway, and I made it through okay.

Protip: People don't talk to you much if you pretend to watch football, so long as you don't cheer for the wrong team when they do something awesome.