Today, I finally found the courage to confront my Native American parents, who happily celebrate Thanksgiving every year, even though it's a holiday about genocide. They rolled their eyes and said, "Fine. Don't come, we don't want a killjoy like you at dinner." FML
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Today, my daughter repeated what she had heard her grandma say when asked to say grace. It happened to be, "Dear God, why the fuck did we invite all these assholes to Thanksgiving?" I don't want to attend any more family gatherings. FML
Today, at a family dinner, I found the courage to tell my husband's parents about my schizophrenia. They exchanged weird looks and then there was an uncomfortable silence. Then my father-in-law finally says, "Christ. The grandkids won't come out all nutty, right?" FML
Today, I came out to my parents. They laughed in my face. FML
Today, I went to work during Black Friday, after not being invited to my family's Thanksgiving dinner. FML
Today, I found out my family's Thanksgiving was canceled. Why? Because my mom doesn't want to cheat on her diet, so we aren't having it at all. FML
Today, I took my parents up on their invitation to spend Thanksgiving with them. My 3 year-old daughter refused to get out of the car and insisted on waiting there. When asked why, she said, "I don't like Grandma because she's mean to Daddy!" Not only did my parents hear, we haven't told her he, my husband, passed away 4 months ago. FML
Today, my parents, who always bitch that they don't see me enough since we live in different states, completely ignored me during their early Thanksgiving visit and used me as a free hotel for my younger siblings. I maybe spent four hours with them during their three day stay. FML
Today, I’m going to have two Thanksgivings. One at my parents' for the first half of the day, then the other at my house. I let my boyfriend know beforehand about it, as well as my sister. She then told my mom about my plan and next thing I know, I got a phone call from mom that turned into her yelling at me for not staying all day. FML
Today, while at a family reunion, my parents kept bringing up horrible things I did when I was about 4-6 years-old that I've been trying to forget for decades. After a while, I just stormed out. When I came back in the room, my dad had the nerve to ask me why I left and why I wasn't talking to him. FML
Today, my coworkers had a Thanksgiving party, but it was Christians only, so I wasn't invited. I'm an expat, and I don't know any other Americans here. I was lonely, so I invited a non-American friend out to dinner. She said she couldn't go because she was invited to a Thanksgiving party. I spent the evening alone. FML
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idragosani 17
You're not wrong...
idragosani 17
Uh no, that's the problem... we've whitewashed the history into pleasant mythology with all the happy stories about Miles Standish and the Pilgrims... but it was not a nice dinner for the indigenous peoples involved.
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Comments (4)
Charlie Given 28
If you live in a native American community get the elders involved, that's basically committing treason amongst the community. Any native Americans I've known over the years, Thanksgiving was a very touchy subject and any native Americans celebrating it would be considered a traitor to their community.
DLBL 23
Is it possible your parents just want their family over for a nice dinner? Without all your ******* opinions? If you'll recall, at The First Thanksgiving, pilgrims and natives had a nice dinner. BTW, save your anger for when you're old and everything hurts. While you're young, enjoy love, sex, optimism for F sake. You'll be ground to an angry nub soon enough.
idragosani 17
Uh no, that's the problem... we've whitewashed the history into pleasant mythology with all the happy stories about Miles Standish and the Pilgrims... but it was not a nice dinner for the indigenous peoples involved.
DLBL 23
You were there that day?
idragosani 17
You're not wrong...
GoogieWithers 25
It is a horrible reminder of history but they may just want a reason to invite family over.