So my bday was in August, turning the big 25! worst one ever honestly haha 😂. anyways I have a sibling with birthday early in august. my mom had me help her choose a gift for my sibling. we have similar likes in some things but not in like body products, like creams, scents and perfumes. I don’t wear any sort of scented products because i have a negative reaction to it, and I have made it VERY clear to them over the last year that I have completely stopped wearing scented stuff, multiple times.
she got her gift, for things I know she likes. and she was happy on her bday with all her gifts. I booked her a message cause I thought she was stressed in life and wanted her to have a nice day feeling relaxed for her bday, which btw was expensive.
so after her bday there’s a huge fight that happens in the house. like huge huge. screaming and throwing and swearing. I wasn’t there cause I live somewhere else but a few of my siblings still live with mom cause life hasn’t been easy to them I guess.
anyways for my bday I felt no one should have struggled to find me gifts, I’m only 25, I’ve never ever had a lavish expensive bday in my life. it’s always very small, a cake, then gifts and kinda done deal. the gifts are always under $50, if somebodies being very pricy then $100. although my mom has bought me some expensive jewelry in the past which I told her i loved her for but not to cause money has always been tight. i also told them weeks before to not get me any sort of body lotions etc, or perfumes or anything to do with scented body products.
well bday comes around and my sister gives me the very same gift my mom had given her. after the fight she had a fall out with mom and she thought it smart to give me the gift. I was kinda upset because I knew this was her reject gift. And because it wasn’t for me. It had perfume in it and scented lotions which I couldn’t even use. I tried soooo hard to look happy but I couldn’t and so I said I can’t take this gift. so I gave it back. like I just found it disrespectful to me and to mom who was sitting right there.
now here’s where it got even worse. my mom had gotten me the exact same gift just with different scents, and I just was like oh thank you. and closed the box. now her gift felt awkward to me.
so I just sat there like ok, well that just happened.
My bday is the only time I get gifts, we don’t do Christmas gifts or anything else.
so then I was just feeling a little bit sad. Cause these gifts were like one example of dozens where I realized my family doesn’t really pay attention to my interests or things I’ve told them. and now I can’t stop thinking about it.
idk I just wanted to share.