Is it normal to hate my birthday?

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Well, I hate my birthday! Because every year its all about everyone else, I don't ask for anything during the year, but if I ask for something small to be done, is it really necessary to be said no to? I feel so unpopular on my birthday, like nobody will remember or something, I won't throw parties because I have a fear that nobody will come, am I being completely ridiculous or what?

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    I don't give a crap about my birthday but I somehow remember everyone elses.

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  • seankessinger
    11 years ago

    Yeah. you might have some social anxiety problems or a fear of being let down. In the end your birthday is just another day on the calender. I would expect people to wish you happy birthday(If you let them know it's your birthday), but in today's busy world a party might not be possible to manage with everyone on different schedules. Do what makes you happy. If that means watching TV all day, do it :)

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  • ryry32
    8 years ago

    I don't know how old this thread is, but I'm glad I found it and can completely sympathize.

    I don't mind celebrating other peoples birthdays and making a big deal out of it, but mine are off limits. This is why I hate my birthday. First and foremost; “friends.” As an example last year a friend of mine wanted a pair of shoes, very specific shoes, I spent hours driving around trying to find these shoes and not a single store carried them.

    After nearly 5 hours I broke down and went home and ordered them online with an additional payment for overnight shipping to ensure they arrived on the exact day as it was past the order time to ensure next day delivery and I had only two days. I also gave them a card with $50 for extra spending money, in total spending over $160 – this was in June. Come October when it was my birthday, they completely ignored that it was my birthday. After all the effort I had put into their birthday, my only day off before I worked for three weeks straight and money which I could have spent on myself, they couldn't be bothered to so much as say “Happy Birthday” on Facebook or even bother to send a text.

    And this is the same story time and time over, putting effort into everyone else and to get nothing in return. I honestly do not expect anyone to pay me back with gifts in return, I actually don't even want gifts, but to be so fucking self-centered that you completely ignore someones birthday who has gone out of their way for you is beyond the pale.

    The other aspect is it's nothing to get excited about. Big fucking deal, I'm a year older; it's just another day. And that's all it is - just another day.

    Likewise, I don't need a reminder that I have an appointment with the grim reaper – I'm quite aware. In nine and a half days I'll be turning 29 in a family with an average life span of 65 years – I only have 36 years left – If I'm lucky and god knows this (almost) first 30 years just flew by – I sure the hell am not going to be happy and celebrate counting down until the day I begin to bloat.

    I hate my birthday and I am not going to tolerate people telling me how I should spend it or that I should be happy. If you want to know what I want for my birthday, it's really simply. Leave me the hell alone about it being my birthday.

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  • shyshy422shy
    10 years ago

    Yeah, I totally hate my birthdays... My mom and I share the same bday we always celebrated together then she died when I was 13. Now I'm 24 today btw and I hate my birthdays it seems like I'm always trying to make ppl happy on my bday nobody wants to do the simple things I like. I go to clubs for a living I hate going to clubs! All I want is coffee delivered in the morning and my loved ones around loving me. Now I'm stuck in Little Rock, Arkansa because I didn't want to go out to the club for my bday my friend called me a miserable b* and literally kicked me out the car ON MY BIRTHDAY the sad part is I am stuck at the airport trying to get back home to California because I don't want to bother anybody, because EVERYBODY makes me feel like a bother when all I do is give! I so hate my bday! I think it's totally normal bday's never seem to be about me on my special day : ( Every year I hide in the bathroom and cry my eyes out

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  • russellnb
    11 years ago

    I loved birthdays as a child but now that I am closer to the end than the beginning I do not like them anymore.

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  • googeju
    11 years ago

    The reason I hate my birthday? There are always arguments - always fights - I never get to do what I would like and any suggestions are lost in the moans of others - I always make a huge effort for my family and never get it reciprocated. Lost my mum this year and she was the only one who would make an effort - even when she was ill. Two years ago my husband got me a can opener for my birthday. The year before that I got nothing. Last year I got nothing. Asked to work this year so I could avoid the lot of them today. Happy Fucking Birthday.

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  • Abby13
    11 years ago

    I hate my birthday too.
    After consistantly bieng forgotten, then celebrated with chocolate cake (Which I hate) or shopping (Which I don't like doing) or any number of other things I don't enjoy.
    This year my friends are pressuring me to go to a big club - I don't drink, and I hate drunk people. It makes me feel like they don't even know me.

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  • bumblecreek
    11 years ago

    it's normal. i don't hate my birthday, but i don't really care for it either. but the time of the year i do hate, more than any other time, is christmas.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      Urgh, Christmas..

      I once lived with an upper-middle class family with your typical fat spoiled son and he got his presents, ripped them open, and played with them for a week before going back to ask his Dad for more crap. All Christmas was to him was all it was to most families now which is a need to buy more crap, not to spend family time together or have that one day where Mommy and Daddy are both home and spending quality time with the kids or a time to reflect upon the year, nope! Just buy more crap, here, base your happiness on how much sh*t that you can stock up and fuel our consumer driven life-cycles.

      But I can't complain. I got a seasonal job at Toys R Us thanks to Christmas which bought me my first car which made it possible for me to get a better job and go to college. But still *sigh*

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    I like my birthday :) Mine is only in a few weeks by the way :D

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    I hate my birthday because it doesn't get celebrated. The last proper party I had was when I turned 5 or 6. I haven't been allowed to invite anyone since. I haven't gotten a birthday cake in the last few years and most importantly, no o e remembers it. I remember my friends but for some reason they never remember mine. Why is that?!

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