How do you feel with your birthday celebrations???

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Well, I'm going 18 today (today means October 12, not 13...) and everybody is calling me to say "happy birthday" to me, but I feel sooo uncomfortable... I don't know what to say and I don't like to talk on the phone... I'm always like "yes... thank you... yes...hhhmmm..." ---> I apreciate the fact that they remember me and call me, but I don't know, I just don't feel absolutely ok in this kind of situations... do you feel the same???

happy birthday, hadapurpura!

as for birthday celebrations... well, i get none, usually. my b'day is 3 days after christmas, and no-one can be arsed with it. it's usually reasonably miserable because of that.

My birthday is April 24,1990.On my next birthday I will be 16.

Usually,for my birthday,all of my relatives come over and they talk loudly and give me lots of hugs which usually annoys me and,in some cases,makes me have an occasional sensory overload.I'm really happy that thye love me though.

With my friends,it's even better,although we are usually louder and more rowdy.

-SpaceCase

I can't stand my birthday, I hate being the center of attention unless I'm performing. All that attention for free, bleh!

Until recently, I hated birthdays. I was expected to be all happy, and have huge celebration. But between ages 10 and 16, I had no friends. So what was the point of a birthday, then? Fortunately, I have a good group of friends now, so that's no longer a problem. The problem now is having to organize a party that everyone will enjoy, and I hate organizing parties. I'm not good at it.

I really hate the attention I get on my birthday. It causes major anxiety for me. And especially with people standing or sitting around and watching me open up the presents. ARGH!! !! I just wanna scream and run into the bathroom, alone, and open them all up there.

My mother has almost gotten used to me being uncomfortable with this and so the main present for me she will always come with me to go out and buy it, so it is a very relaxed situation. But she still insists on having one or two small little presents for me to open. I hate this. (Not the presents, though. Presents are always good.)

But I remember my 16th birthday was a nightmare because a friend of mine, his mother and my mother all conspired to throw me a fairly large surprise birthday party. Not only did the party-goers jump out when I walked in a yelled "SURPRISE!! !" but I also had to take THAT much time to open up ALL of their presents in front of them. ARGH!! !! I wasn't so startled about the "surprise" thing as I could have been because it was painfully close to my birthday and my mother was fussing over how I looked on the way over to this friend's house, which she never does. So I figured there must be some kinda surprise party and I prepared myself for it as best I could.

And that was the last official birthday party I've had. And I plan on it remaining so.

The only thing which makes me still look forward to my birthday are the presents, themselves, hehe.

I don't like my birthday. It is a good thing that my birthday is Friday of Final Exam week, so everyone will likely forget about it, anyways. My most memorable birthday was when I was at a swimmeet and after I finished my 200 backstroke race, a few of my friends hijacked the announcer's microphone and sang happy birthday to me. That was interesting...

Vivi, hooray for birthday celebrations right around Christmas! My mom's b-day is only a couple of days after Christmas and mine is about three weeks after it.

I dislike celebrations, incl. birthdays. Used to be a nice idea, when I was a kid-not like the reality would turn out well. Now I'm 32, so there's no more legal status left for me to attain, compared w/ages 16, 18, 21 years old. I prefer to spend my birthday as a normal day-w/a little extra attention towards me...
Can't stand gifts, giving or getting, and I usually dislike cards also-but that's a whole other issue.

I don't like to make a fuss on my birthday, but I do enjoy them..

I dont mind happy birthday calls as long as they are short.

I´v always wished I was born on 29 februari

That would be bearable, one birthday in four years.

I don't mind it when my friends call me up and wish me happy buirthday or take me out to eat - usually at work I won't even bother telling people, probably just because I'm really not in the loop with em that much anyway and I don't want em feeling like I think they owe me anything.

On the other side of it, I guess my only qwibble about thinking of it is I'll be 26 in a couple months :/ - yeah, I know I'm not exactly ancient but I'm starting down that road where all those legal markers like 18 (cigarettes and lotto), 21 (alcohol), and 25 (car insurance drop/hotel rental) have kinda passed and now every year just brings, well, me getting older.

happy birthday hadapurpura...

awww. I'll try not to forget this year...

As for me, I just feel old, and a bit miffed that I still don't seem to have got anywhere each year. I'm not looking forward to thirty much for that reason.

I don't mind birthdays but I don't see them as a big deal. I can't even remember what I did for my last one. I think I saw my dad but I have no idea what really went on- no party or anything, I don't think I've had a birthday "party" since I was 6, as I've never had both the firneds and the resources to do that since then. They're more a source of income now.

I think my next birthday I'm gonna ask my friends to maybe go out to a restuarant with me and instead of buying me anything they can just pay their own dinner. Maybe go out to a movie. Dunno, don't care. I'll be turning 20, so it's not like I can go out and get drunk- though I have no desire to do that anyway. Maybe I'll go to a 21+ karaoke bar when I turn 21, though (most of them seem to be, which is decidedly inconvenient if I were to want to go out to one with friends, not to drink but to watch them sing and possibly lose my dignity and their respect by doing likewise). I haven't bought a lottery ticket since I turned 18; that day I neither indulged in gambling or smoking, I'd been living on my own since I was 16 and in college since I was 17. Not that big a milestone. That WAS the last time I had steak, I think, as I became a vegetarian when lent came around (gave meat up for lent then decided I'd just quit altogether).

I actually knwo someone who was. I think it would be pretty cool, personally, but kind of inconventient (I've heard there can be mild issues with paperwork for driver's liscences, though they're very easily resolved- just wait till March 2 for anything you need to be "of age" for).

I am lucky in that I have a twin sister. Parties get organised for her and not for me because I refuse to have anything to do with that kind of thing. Then, when I go to her party, I sort of hide in the background.
Occasionally someone will wreck it for me by pointing out to people that it is my birthday too.
This happened at my 18th. They even had a cake with my name on it! I was horrified.
If I have to do something, a quiet dinner with my favourite foods is nice.