I can't remember Christmases from my childhood. Since we didn't celebrate them, it'd be like asking me to remember any random day during a school break. But the one thing I feel fairly certain about would be that it'd be a day that my father would have extremely high odds of having to be at work. So, I'd have off from school, certainly, but we'd never plan a family thing on a major Christian holiday, since my father would almost certainly be working them. Somebody has to, and it's far better that it be the people who don't care about them. And that way he could get off the days that mattered. He always took Yom Kippur off.

But a childhood of pretty much never celebrating Christmas in any way really doesn't leave me caring about the holiday, even in some sort of secular way. Although decorating stuff is fun, so the whole decorating a tree thing is cool. But I did get to do that once or twice already, so I'm kind of over that now.

I don't feel too alienated except in that people insist on wishing me a Merry Christmas with no thought that I might not celebrate it. That doesn't happen too much though, but it is annoying when it does happen. But some people really are thoughtful and make it clear that their point is good wishes and not the assumption that everyone is like them. I don't mind good wishes. I just mind when people assume things about me that aren't true. And they do this a lot, because I'm not typical in a lot of ways. Assumptions annoy me, even though I know humans have to make them, but they make so many all the time, and so many are so wrong, and they think about them way too little. Just a bit more thought would be highly appreciated. (And is from those who give it, as some people do.)