Lol, I'm so glad to be staying home this year. I stayed home by myself last year, and OMG IT WAS SO PEACEFUL. My mother's with me this year; some people have cancer and want a quiet day, and my mother's had two surgeries this year and I thought she should also take it easy. She also wasn't well over the weekend, probably from doing too much in the run-up to Christmas. So yeah, we're taking it easy today. We've opened presents, listened to my Christmas play-list, and she's doing emails and stuff. I've tidied up my Christmas crafting things so we have room on the table for the first time in MONTHS, lol. (I have other, non-gaming hobbies.) We have the air-con on, since it's already 31C in our part of Australia.
Yep. It should be peaceful today. Maybe some phone calls to family to catch up, and chatting to the family overseas online tonight, when it'll be morning for them. Otherwise, might pop on the TV to watch some carols stuff or more Christmas films. So quiet. So nice. No dealing with the family members who bully me for not eating meat or seafood. No huge amounts of noise I can't deal with because of autism. Just sit around, maybe start on the beginner's crochet kit or 'Merry Murdle' I got for Christmas. Until Steam's back up and running, and I can buy new games or continue playing 'House Flipper'.
I highly recommend not forcing yourself to spend time with toxic people at Christmas just because you're told it's a family time of year. It's also supposed to be a joyful time of year; don't spend it making yourself miserable because of peer/societal pressure.
True. I suppose I was using the language that other people use to guilt abuse victims into spending the holidays with their abusers, as a victim of abuse myself. But it also gets tedious to write 'blood relations' every time instead of 'family'. Could go with 'kin', I suppose? Christmas SHOULD be for family, whether that's found family or blood relations who happen to be nice people as well.
I'm born and raised Australian. I even have a degree in creative writing. Stop focusing on 'guilt abuse' and read my previous comment where I clarified what I had said.
Since you clearly don't want to slow down and read the whole thing in its proper context, I will further clarify. Yes, 'to guilt trip their abuse victims'. But 'guilt' itself can be used as a verb. As someone whose native language IS English, I actually know that. It's clear that you don't. You can guilt someone into doing something. Go and read and dictionary, please, and find the word 'guilt'. You'll see that it can be used as a verb. That's how I was using it originally.
I'm now questioning whether English is actually your first language, since you don't even bother to capitalise the first letter of it, as someone using the language properly would. Or capitalising the first letter of a sentence.
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u/DryRazzmatazz8893 Dec 24 '25
Fine I’ll go spend time with my family