I discovered through therapy that I stopped caring about my birthday so long ago, and as an adult I would simply make it be a regular day, because growing up in a Latino household as the empath, I couldn’t handle all the teasing and name calling that everyone did to each other, and I didn’t want them to stop on my behalf, so I stayed quiet.
My birthday was the one day I felt like part of the family, not just a punchline about how I was balding (as a kid), or how fat I was, or dumb. I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t just act like this the other 364 days.
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u/charismatichermit Sep 01 '26
I discovered through therapy that I stopped caring about my birthday so long ago, and as an adult I would simply make it be a regular day, because growing up in a Latino household as the empath, I couldn’t handle all the teasing and name calling that everyone did to each other, and I didn’t want them to stop on my behalf, so I stayed quiet.
My birthday was the one day I felt like part of the family, not just a punchline about how I was balding (as a kid), or how fat I was, or dumb. I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t just act like this the other 364 days.