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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP, and these responses are laughably rude. Wow. This board is really something. Not everyone is a stone-cold ice mannequin without feelings. I actually think feeling a twinge of sadness if someone forgets a birthday - or questioning a friendship - is the stuff of life. I posted a vulnerable question. The outsized judgmental, rude commentary here is ... just wow. I am really happy for the dozen or so of you who think birthdays are dumb or are too busy or proud or above it all to celebrate, but I do question what makes you respond with such anger anonymously. Yikes![/quote]

I am the PP who literally used the word “twinge” to describe the momentary sadness I have felt when close friends don’t acknowledge my birthday, so I’m with you there. Where we diverge is that I only feel that way about close friends (not friends of a year), and I don’t leap to the conclusion that the person who forgets doesn’t care about me at all.

People having different opinions and feelings is not “rude,” we just have a different take. You are painting me as being “judgmental” and “rude” because I have an opinion that is different from yours. Have you reflected on that? “Just wow” is not exactly being kind and open-minded, now is it? [/quote]

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