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: I really cannot stand the family pressure to travel hundreds of miles to eat food with people who I rarely see or talk to except when people get married, die, or attend holiday get-togethers.
Same's true in re: Xmess.
All they're going to do, for the most part, is gossip, watch football or reality tv, listen to "holiday music", shop, and nap. None of that is my bag, and combinations of that are even less my bag.
@thedisasterautist I see you are a shiny pro now!!!! I know is unrelated. But yes, I feel the whole weird thing too. Having salmon not turkey.
@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine: Yes. I am teh shineh proh. 👽 🤘
@thedisasterautist it's very stressful.
@thedisasterautist I (British, so thankfully only have the one holiday season) relate to this enough that the lockdown Christmas of 2020 felt like a genuine, unironic upgrade for me. (And then I felt survivor's guilt at this...)
Having avoided invites for not only last year but this year as well, I suspect I've had my last family Christmas of any kind... me and my autistic partner enjoy our own company more!