Anyone else dreading Thanksgiving ?

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I am, my family and extended family are coming over. They know I'm awkward, but I'll rarely speak except when I do for something the whole room goes quiet ... it makes me feel so uncomfortable that I can't just be looked at and accepted. I know I'll feel like a burden has been lifted from my shoulders when it's all over, but until then I'm here thinking a thousand things at once like a chess game.. how will it be played. What would I talk about ? It's one of those holiday's I dread and will be thankful for when it's over.

it is one of the only times in a given year that i get to eat well. so i will put up with a lot in exchange for this rare repast.

No Thanksgiving here

My dread is the following:


Let me introduce you to Sinterklaas, yes Sinterklaas not Santa Clause - he shaves his beard at the time of Christmas .
Those persons in black are his "servants" called Zwarte Pieten, often seen as people of African decent but they are black from the chimneys they climb down for putting stuff in childrens' shoes. They used to punish children if they misbehaved by flogging them with birching or threatning to take them away in a bag to Spain .

Here is more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas

Cheerfully,
Wallourdes

I am and dreading Thanksgiving because I have to spend the day alone since I don't feel like spending it with my aunt this year due to a tension between the two of us last year. That ruined it for me. What I am frustrated about is that my friends get to attend family affairs with big dinners and they get to see their parents, siblings, and cousins etc. Meanwhile, I don't dare go home because I don't get along with my parents or one of my sisters. When I see my friends getting along with their parents, I often get jealous during this time of the year.

Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday... My family was never really close but we still did the giant family dinners and such which I HATED! Whenever I was forced to go I would always just stand somewhere and sorta "blend into the background" and pray that nobody would try to talk to me or anything. It seemed so dumb because I absolutely hate eating around others so I basically just did nothing but watch my incredibly annoying family eat and socialize for 3 hours


On the plus side... Pumpkin pie!

I'm worried about my family interrogating me about my new boyfriend and why I don't have a job or a driver's license. I thought we'd be spending Thanksgiving with my favorite uncle but we're having it with my obnoxious cousins instead. Ugh. It sucks. D:

My parents and I are staying in town and going to a restaurant to celebrate Thanksgiving. Usually we go up to my uncle's house but not this year.

I used to always find a way to have to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas to avoid the festivities. Back when I was in a serious relationship, I would get suckered into going to 3-4 of them in one day. Talk about frying your brain. It would take me 2-3 days for me to recover. Now, I have resigned myself to going because that is the only time I get see some of my family. I do not like the inevitable why aren't with someone or why don't you have a better job that seems to crop up after a couple of hours. I try to get out of there relatively quickly after that.

I certainly am not looking forward to Thanksgiving.

I dread it inasumuch as its the most boring holiday of the year for me. It's just like the monthly gatherings I go to, to celebrate those months birthdays (large family), except at thanksgiving the food is boring ole turkey with all manner of pastes, and instead of cake or something I like for dessert, it's f*****g pie. Afterwards, the women talk shopping, and the guys watch football, and I sit and read a magazine.

When I get to do my own thanksgiving, it's gonna be my favorite pizza and chocolate custard. Them's good eatins!

My relatives and extended family arent that close and we all just do our own thing most of the time. My thanksgiving will only consist of myself, my brother, my parents, grandma and aunt this year- I like it this way...my extended fam are very nice people for the most part so i think theve just accepted me as the awkward relative and try to involve me in conversation when I go quiet. Im thankful for such a caring family.

Usually there are a lot of folks around for Gobble Day-big change this year! only my parents and I and my two annoying uncles. I haven't eaten meat in twelve years,fish in three,my mother is on a trip, so guess who's cooking for the men..
ME hahaha I pity them already. Salad and yams hehehhe

Yes, I am dreading it. As of Weds. at 4 pm I took an Ambien and a Klonopin to try and sleep through that day because the dread of today was so horrific. It is also the first year of a break up from my ex-fiancee who 'replaced' me in a rather robotic way, and after 6 months of us being broken up, but still supposedly trying to work things out......he married a girl 14 yrs. younger than him. He knew her for only 3 months. We were together for 7 years.

So, I sit here unable to breathe, horribly sad and depressed. Missing my ex and trying to process my new diagnosis-PDD-NOS. I have never been close to my family, so they do not invite me to holidays anymore. How can that hurt me when I don't want to be there anyway? Yet, it hurts. This is the time of year that I dread going into malls and places like Target. All the NT's are so happy! I wear my mask and inside I am dying. My home, security blanket, Brian- is now lost-he has left me as if I never even meant anything to him. It really brought back all the feelings of childhood rejection. That's when I learned-quite well, to ACT and wear my mask. But with him I did not have to.

I am lost right now.

You are not alone.

Well, the day is here I'm just preparing ahead of time. I'm nervous when I shouldn't be so I hope all goes well. I'll update after on how things turn out.