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I'm leaving for thanksgiving break tomarrow. For me the pert of thanksgiving I hate the most is saying what you are thankful for. Am I the only one who feels that way? I know people with AS tend to not like to share sentiment.

Be thankful you have somewhere to go on Thanksgiving. It looks like this will be the first year I'm spending this holiday alone. I'm not trying to throw a pity party or anything. I'm just stating that not everyone has somewhere to spend the holiday. Maybe that's enough of a something to be thankful for.

We don't do the whole "I'm thankful for..." in our family. Just another holiday with lots of food, family and beer. No beer for me, thanks. Not looking forward to seeing my sister as she is completely jealous of me and dislikes me and i have no idea why. That is the only part i am not looking forward to. Well, really, the only thing i am looking forward to is pigging out on some great food!

We never did the what we are thankful thing in my family.

I'm looking forward to the food and seeing everyone. My brother is real big on religion, though and I don't know how to respond to the grace and giving thanks thing. It's not that I'm not thankful for anything, but it is uncomfortable to be on the spot and I tend to freeze.

I'll be working. This'll be my 11th Thanksgiving alone in a row.

I think I remember we did that once or twice, but we usually don't. XD;
You can always just say stuff like "my dog" lol. Sort of sweet but not too deep. That's what I'd go for.

OMG Turkey dinner with potatooooeooeeoeooeeossss, I can't wait.

potatoeoeo~

This year is gonna be the first time I've really celebrated Thanksgiving beyond my immediate family in nearly 10 years. We never did the whole thankful thing, though (but I'm thankful that it's being held at our house so I can hide out in my room when the rest of the house descends into chaos... that, and I don't have to search in vain for a live online feed of the Country Club Plaza lighting ceremony since I'm back in KC where I belong! ).

But, outside of my sanctuary, there should be plenty of food, football, and all sorts of fun involving my cousins' cell phones.

I dont there will be much my family will be thankful this thanksgiving

I do that. i'll say something like "My home" and then my mom will comment on it. My mom commenting on it will make it worse. Sometimes the comment will be "So you're thankful for your home." I don't see the point in commenting on it if I said it clearly.

No problem in the UK
Of course it doesn't have the same historical relevence over here, and I suspect the British public aren't in any mood to be thankful about anything, given the economic outlook.

I'd hate to be expected to show gratitude for anything unless I happened to feel grateful at the time.

We don't usually do Thanksgiving in our house. Thanksgiving is a holiday that only works if you have a huge kitchen, and your visitors can sit around helping with preparations while socializing. Aunt Betty rolling out the pie crust, while little Cousin Elmer opens the can of cranberry sauce and lets in slide out, can-shaped, into a serving bowl. (The can-shaped cranberry sauce is the best part of Thanksgiving.) Grandma shelling pecans and telling amusing family histories. It sounds lovely, but.... I've got a little kitchen that basically only fits one person. If a second person is in there, trying to "be helpful", they are just in the way, because you can't open the fridge or anything. Especially with all the giants butts in my family. You can't move at all without brushing up against someone or having cupboard opened into your back. So, whoever is preparing the meal is isolated from the social aspect. Oh, and it also helps to have an extended family that isn't entirely made up of recluses.

My youngest son hates the smell of a lot of foods, so he won't eat any of it. Turkey is alright, but then you have to eat turkey sandwiches and turkey soup for the next week. Oh, and my oven is too small to roast a turkey according to most recipes, which assume you have a standard (US) oven. And it's got a mind of it's own as far as temperature goes.

I think it's nice to be thankful, in your own private way. I suppose I'm thankful that I rarely end up having to go to someone's house for Thanksgiving, where each guest is expected to tell the others what they are thankful for. Ugh! That's the worst. Years ago I spent one Thanksgiving with this uptight boyfriend guy and his church group. I was put on the spot and had to say what I was thankful for, and couldn't think of anything, because my life sucked at the time. So, before I knew it, I was spouting off some garbage about the "Lord" giving us good friends and whatnot. I didn't even know these people and was not comfortable around them. And I said, "Lord" because that was before I knew that "Lord" was something only Christians say, and I'm more of a pagan. I just thought it was an all-purpose word for God, and that it would be appreciated by that group. I remember my boyfriend rolling his eyes.

Unfortunately, these days the whole "thankfulness" idea smacks of Oprah Winfrey and her Gratitude Journals and Book Lists. If Oprah does it, it makes me want to go out of my way to do the opposite. So, if I ever invite you to my house for Thanksgiving, you can rest assured that I won't make you give a speech about what you are thankful for.