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I hate my birthday!
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For as long as I can remember I have hated and dreaded my birthday. I think its because I make a big deal out of everyone else's by always trying to remember and call/send gift on that exact day, but it doesn't seem like I ever feel satisfied when my own birthday comes by. I could have 4 or 5 birthday messages but be sad because I have like a lot more friends that should have remembered! Or for example I will get a few emails, but will be hurt I didn't get more from people that know its my bday or that they just texted and didn't call! It makes me feel selfish and ungrateful but that's just how I feel. I am to the point where I try to pretend its not my birthday or make plans to be alone/go away. Weird or what? I hate to say it, but having my birthday just make me feel unpopular! At the same time I feel like if I go around reminding people that its my bday that it will just be fake responses or forcing people to say happy birthday. Its almost like I am testing people and then get sad every year it seems like not everyone remembered--even though I should be happy some people did!!! I can't stand that I am so selfish like this!
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It doesn't make you selfish to feel put out when people forget your birthday, especially when you remember theirs. That said, you shouldn't feel bad about reminding people, most of your friends would probably be mortified to think that they'd forgotten, and would rather have you tell them than have the day ignored. It's nothing personal when someone forgets anyway. I love my friends, but I would forget all their birthdays if I didn't set reminders : )
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
i feel the same way sometimes... when other people's birthdays come around, i find myself checking to see if they said anything to me on my birthday and reciprocating accordingly.

maybe you could send out an announcement about some kind of birthday get-together... so you can do something fun the day of and maybe get some more messages too even if some people can't come. something casual like coffee maybe.
Ok my birthday is tommorrow, and I just wanted you to know that I feel the same way as you do. Honestly there is someone else out there who thinks the same way. I am trying to decide if I should fake being sick so that I can skim over my birthday and not have to deal with the dissapointment. I think one of the best presents I will get is knowing there is someone else who thinks like me.
I FUCKING HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE MY BIRTHDAY!!i know EXACTLY how you feel THANK YOU so much for sharing!!!!!!!I honestly fucking HATE my birthday!and sorry for ranting but its my FUCKING BIRTHDAY TODAY and I FUCKING HATE HATE HATE IT!sorry for sounding like a spoilt selfish dissapointed BITCH but I feel like SHIT and WISHED fucking birthdays DID NOT EXIST!THEY ARE THE FUCKING SHITEST DAYS IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT DAY AGHHHHHH I FUCKING HATE IT...im not really as much of a psycho as I sound but honestly what a fucking lame day ...piece of absolute shit - i fucking hate it, bent bent bent... all my freinds are doing exams, my sis incl, my mum took me out to drop SOME FUCKING WORK PAPERS no she couldnt have taken me shopping, for coffee, to the movies, for a walk NOPE, to drop FUCKING WORK PAPERS!!, i got mascara (loreal) and an umbrella thats actually a fucking PARASOL from my sisters!!and they ARE NOT BABIES!! NO FUCKING TEXT FROM my SUPPOSED BEST FREIND - HONESTLY I JUST HOPE SHE FORGETS BECAUSE I WOULDNT WANT IT AT THIS STAGE. My mum got me book tokens and she offered to pay for a flight id already booked - HOW FUN??? and its my FUCKING 21ST BIRTHDAY AND ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOOOOOOOOOOO LAME I HONESTLY JUST WANT TO CRY AND SCREEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!!ALSO she told me if it wasnt for the recession she would've gotten me a CAR!THANKS I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW THAT!YEAH THATS ALL I HATE MY BIRTHDAY I JUST FFFFUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKINGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHATTTTTTEEEEEEE IT AGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHH - OK IM DONE FREAKING YOU OUT...THANKS FOR THE VENTING SPACE, MUCH APPRECIATED.
OMFG i HHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEE my birthday!!!
its depresses me cos its makes me think about death and my mortality
lol i no that sounds wierd but i really f###ing hate my birthday
your not alone!!!
and the presents never live up 2 my expectations lol
omfg i hate my birthday too, my mums always like "ohh you could have a sleepover n' shit" and i fucking hate all the attention i get, ¬¬'' i know exactly how ya feel tbh
ur a self centered biatchee
Oh God. this is exactly how i feel today. some 18th birthday this was. what do i get for my fucking birthday? a card.. wooo i always wanted one. sorry dad? did you just say the book and movie i got two weeks ago was my present? lovely, what next? my text books and school fees will be next years present. fuck fuck fuck. and get this, my so called friend called and said she was just going to pop by and then she had to go uni to "stud", and even better after that she was going to go to the movies with her other friend. her other fucking friend on MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY! when she realised i wasn't happy about this she asked if she could come. well guess what? I FUCKING DON'T FUCKING WANT YOU, YOU IDIOT! i don't want anything, because i KNOW that's what you'll get me. Nothing. So i might aswell ask for nothing. for me birthdays are days where life tells me that no one gives a shit about me. so thanks for fucking me life birthdays.
I hate birthdays too ! I don't even give a fuck if i am self centred. I fucking hate them. I am going out for mine today and can't stop crying it's shit. half of people already let me down. according to one of my friends (who i have known for approx twenty years) it's to much hassle!! I always make a big deal of other peoples b'days.well they can all fuck off from now on i am going to treat them how they treat me. I am gonna ignore them on the actual b'day and turn up four days late with a card and pressie (that i have got from the local garage) if i can be arsed !!
@: reyrey
Dang, what an ungrateful tart!
THANNNNKKK YOUUUU GOOODDDDDD!!!!
Honestly, there were the best gift I could always gets on my life!
Seriously, you are not crazy, I was thinking that I was some kind of freak, 'cause guess what?
I'm doing 18, and I'm currently living in France, so all should be perfect right?
But noooooo, I'm having a SHITTIIIING time, really, one of the worst, any one in this country knows how speak or even makes a effort, to try to speak a little of english, I doesn't understeand anything, and now I'm legally majeur, so I can't kill anyone anymore!!!LOL..
But oh,I'm so miserable, that I was in google searching this: WHY I HATE MY BIRTHDAY?
Normally, I'm always excited to do a new age, a new year, and all this fucking things, but normally and I don't know why,when the Bday, finnaly cames, I'm all sad, and depressive...
Even, when I was doing 16, and had a huge party, I still hate my birthday!!!
But this year, were my 18, you know...So, I was with a lot of hopes and dreams for this age, 'cause in europe you can drink with 18, and all, but here I'm in a forum, descovering that I AM NORMALLLLL!!!!
Even, when I'm checking my facebook,my Msn, my Skype, my e-mail, my phone, and all the other technologies that exist in the world!
And asking myself, why my father, my best friend, or the boy that I like (which by the way, had a bithday last week, and I'd send a texte to him!) didn't call...
I understand what you mean completely! I hate whenever my birthday comes around because some people make a huge deal about it and are always asking me what I want for a present and what I want to do. This year I just took three days off and avoided all the falseness associated with it.
Yep I hate mine too. Its my 21st in 2 days and I have NOTHING to do. I didn't used to hate my birthday but the last 3 have just been total non-events. Being in mid-January there's no-one around from uni and since we moved areas 3 years ago all my uni holidays have been depressing. I did actually plan to just have some metime and go off for a long bike ride but that simple pleasure has also been snatched away from me as my father has decreed that I have to go and spend the day with my grandmother who doesn't even like me. Does it get more depressing than that?
I fully agree with you my friend..I have a birthday March 1rst that ends in a ''0''...I am totally dreading this horrible day!
i know how you feel tomorrow is my birthday and i am sitting here feeling so angry inside already cuz i know i'm going to be dissapointed....... i just hate my birthday!!!!!!!!!!! i'm already having a bad day too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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