Celebrating Halloween as a autistic Adult

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I also love to celebrate Halloween. If Halloween falls on one of my work days, I'm going to go as a Pea Whisperer. I'll dress in green from head to toe and I'll bring my giant stuffed Om Nom with me.

We don't celebrate halloween so much over here in the UK. Sometimes kids go trick or treating, but it's not a huge thing. Some adults have halloween parties, which are pretty cool, but that's about it. Otherwise, halloween is just one day. Christmas on the other hand, is the biggest holiday in the UK. It practically starts in November.

How can you love the autumn? Ugh!! Autumn's my worst time of the year. I love the spring, because of the lovely flowers coming out, and the days are getting longer. Roll on March!

I agree that ZombieBride should do whatever she enjoys doing; personally I have no problem with a 19 year wanting to trick or treat.

It's just that she said there is some kind of local ordinance where she lives, that has said people above 16 are not permitted to trick or treat.

I think that's overly harsh, but my suggestion that perhaps she could act as a "guardian" adult to some kids means she could still get to be part of the trick or treating without getting fined or something.

I remember being in high school (age 16-ish), and trick-or-treating with my friends. I was shocked when someone told me that I was too old.

Also costumes plus your romantic partner? Or costumes plus a party? This is a no loose situation.

If someone has a costume, rings my door, says the magic words, then they get candy.

Halloween lasts the entire month of October. I'd love to reduce Xmas to a week, but that's not happening.

Moral panic interferes with adult trick-or-treating. I guess, like sand, moral panic gets into everything. Statistically, household members pose far more of a danger to children than random strangers. If parents have irrational fears about their children, that's normal but they really ought to deal with it for the best interests of the child.

If a bunch of grinches steal Halloween, when can adults play dress-up? We're not all cut out for LARPing!

I never celebrated it since I grew up in a religious house hold but good luck with that I guess.

CockneyRebel,

That sounds cute! If you do that, post a picture for us.

I don't know if I'll be a kitty or a tennis player-or maybe a tennis playing cat.

I'm with the OP and Stampy - I really miss trick-or-treating and wish adults could as well! One thing I've tried to do is hand out candy as it at least still gets the atmosphere. When I've lived places where I didn't get trick-or-treaters (ie. as I was in an apartment), I went to a colleague's place who owned a house and passed out candy there I'm looknig forward to this year as my new place gets trick-or-treaters! But do wish I could still go myself!

Handing out candy seems like a great way to stay in the game and avoid the overwhelming social disapproval. I hope your experience goes better than mine. You'll probably want to live on a street where everyone hands out candy. Trick or treaters seem to maximize their net gain very rationally. I was just about a block off one such street, but no other houses in between had candy, and I got two families all night. This was after setting up the fog machine and the theremin and buying loads of candy, including fruit sours which I despise because people like them. Anyway, I hope you can maximize your return on investment as someone handing out candy, and participate in the energy of the event from the allowable adult side.

If you don't have access to a house on a popular street, these days in the US, you don't have a lot of options for getting into the spirit of trick-or-treating. I like adult Halloween parties, too, but they have a completely different tone.

I stopped caring about Halloween (or any worldwide celebratory phenomenon for that matter) years ago. It's been overly commercialized to the point of nearly driving me insane.