Birthday parties ?

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Can you remember birthday parties as a child/teenager ? I can't other than I remember going to one and we watched a cartoon on a home cinema(early 60s style) . From the age of 8 I can't remember one birthday invite. My own birthdays we went to the cinema ,mainly, or some other artistic event . There were no parties with other children.

I'm not sure I was invited to many 'friends' birthday parties , I only remember one and funnily enough they had a projector to watch cartoons and film clips ( I'm remember it being very impressive ). My memory is too poor to remember any other parties if I even went to any others ( I'm not sure I did ).

I think I was invited to a grand total of ONE birthday party. My best/only friend, and was only invited once.

All I really remember of it was watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea on a projector.

When I turned 18 my mum wanted to take me to the pub to get drunk and celebrate being able to drink alcohol, but I didn't want to. The idea didn't appeal to me in the slightest. I was called boring for that, by my mother, among other people.

Nobody from school invites me to birthday parties - not since I was in primary school.

I turned 18 this year and most of my family forgot. The rest thought I was turning 17. My parents forced me to choose jewellery as a present from them even though I have no use/desire for jewellery and told them so. They made me choose jewellery because they want me to be a popular, 'normal', jewellery-wearing girl. I hate my birthday.

I actually remember quite a few... or at least bits and pieces of them, both parties of my own and parties I was invited to. I also remember the fact that I had a huge melt down on my birthday party when I turned six, but can't remember the reason at all. I also had one on my eight or ninth birthday and I actually remember the reason for this one: the classmates that I had invited started playing with my sister and paying more attention to her instead of doing the things I had planned for the party. Looking back it sounds petty even to me, but I was a child. Child who's sister always tended to get all the positive attention from everyone, so of course the fact that she stole the spotlight on my birthday hurt, even if it wasn't on purpose. When I turned 11 this almost repeated itself, but when I started showing signs of anger the two friends I had invited decided to ignore my sister completely and focus on me. Again, I know I was petty, but that made me really happy at the time.

When I was quite young, I recall actually enjoying them, but then they were quite organised games at that time.

By the time I was 8 or so, I'd basically stopped having them.

I was invited to a few birthday parties in elementary school. I don't remember them too well.

I also had a couple of my own at age 11 and 12. I invited a few friends over, we had pizza and cake, had a scavenger hunt and played Mad Libs. Nothing fancy.

I was only invited to a birthday party once and it turned out to be one of the most horrific experiences during my childhood.

It first started out it went okay but after a while the other kids ganged up on me and teased me mercilessly. I always gave them a good reaction according to them and I started to cry each time. All I was was something to amuse them during the party. It was traumatizing to say the least. Eventually I just went to the birthday boy who was one of my best friends and complained and he told the other boys to leave me alone.

That worked but just to make sure I left early and my parents came to get me. I believe this was around the time I was 9 years old.

I wouldn't wish this life on anyone.

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Yes. I have been invited to several as a kid and what I loved about them was seeing what presents the kid got and eating cake and ice cream and getting prizes and goody bags. I thought for years that kids had birthday parties was so they can get stuff and prizes so at age 9, I had one for my tenth birthday coming up and it didn't go so well. Being a birthday girl is a different ball game than just being a guest. I decided after that having a birthday just to get more presents was not worth it.

I only got invited when I was little and the kid would invite their whole class to the party. I most of the time would have to go, but not really have a lot of fun because it would be loud and overstimulating. After my classmates got old enough to choose which friends to invite, I rarely if ever got invited. It probably was for the best because I never really enjoyed parties anyways. For my birthday, it would just be family and a couple of friends going somewhere, like a movie or a restaurant and I always have enjoyed that.

I haven't been to a birthday party since I was about 9. I've never had one of my own; I just went to ones of my classmates from my SEN primary school. I hated parties due to the noise and busy atmosphere, but I couldn't really tell anyone so I got taken to them anyway.

Most of the parties I've been to were at soft play centres or in community halls. I didn't eat much of the party food since I was a very fussy eater (I'm not anymore!), so I often came home hungry.

I always used to dread the cake and singing thing before it happened, so my parents always took me out the room when the candles were being lit. Once that was over and done with, I was happy.

Sometimes I got overstimulated and went home earlier than everyone else. I always came home with a goody bag filled with sweets and cheap toys, and a soggy piece of cake wrapped in kitchen roll.

Up until 8 I was invited. After that no one seemed to really have any.

I have never had a birthday party of my own, which might have been another reason for stopping getting invites.

I got invited to quite a few birthday parties when I was a little kid. The last birthday party I went to as a kid was when I was 13. But I think kids didn't have so many big birthday parties after that anyway, probably just hung out at the mall with a few of their best friends, which of course I was never invited to.

I remember only two birthday parties from primary school.

One was with my best friend at that age (a boy) and I just remember us sitting at a decorated table having fries and after that birthday cake.

The other one was a girl I was friends with who invited me and the whole class on a ski expedition (she was rich) and I also remember the fries. I guess I remember the fries more than anything else, because I was obsessed with them as a kid.

I also remember one birthday party of my own when I was a child where I got to take all my friends to get icecream.

But honestly, after the age of 10 no one ever invited me for their birthday. Only recently friends have started inviting me again, but I am 30 now.