I don't acknowledge holidays and I hate it when people say it to me. I find holiday greetings of any sort trite and meaningless. They are just words. And they expect and demand a response in kind, resulting in hurt feelings if one isn't given. I hate any sort of meaningless social interaction that demands a reply regardless of how that person feels about it. I find it invalidating and dismissing. It isn't real, or genuine. At all.

Holidays were awful for us. They involved a lot of abuse. Holidays are never happy. I don't want anyone to wish me a happy holiday, ever. go stuff your happy holidays up your bum!!!!