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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Well PP, looks like you can dish it but can't take it. Some of the responses in here are over the top rude and aggressive like people are extremely offended OP dared to express an opinion they don't share and calling her all sorts of names. OP is just pointing it out but then you went off the deep end assuming you were the only one she was commenting on.[/quote]

NP: As a long time reader of DCUM, the responses to this post were as predictable as the sun rising in the east. I'm not sure why the OP even bothered. There are ways to cultivate sympathy among posters; the OPs post was not it.[/quote]

Everyone just takes a contrarian view. There's a new post now: "I hate birthday am AITA" and now the responses are "How selfish!" it's probably the same people crapping on OP here.[/quote]

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