>>1197061I wish I can do something spooktacular this October.
I was never allowed trick or treating. My mother regarded it a form of begging and refused to let me be involved. But because I was a kid on the autism spectrum, that just made me feel even more like I was missing out on being a "normal" kid.
Not only that, but I'm British. Not all of Britain goes hard for Halloween as you Americans do. I live on a coastal town, and they usually put up plastic poppies for Poppy Day or put up the Christmas Lights in preparation for turning them on... but any efforts for Halloween is left to the locals, which is around 3-5 houses in the entire town willing to put in the effort to decorate while a few others leave a pumkpin out.
I kinda get jealous over American kids movies and cartoons that depict community effort over Halloween with trees or red and gold amongst the twilight hours while over here it's just getting dark early and lucky it's not raining.
Last Halloween a few nights a go, I went out to the chippy and I did notice a few trick or treaters around but not many. After leaving the chippy, a kid just came up to me and said "trick or treat!" in such a lazy tone, as if he expects all to be obligated to give him sweets regardless what they're doing. Given I just came out of the chippy, I said "Do I look like I have sweets on me? What do you expect me to give you?" Not only that, but his "costume" consisted of a black hoodie and a cheap convenient-store mask. I wasn't angry about it, nor me, a thirty-something year old man confronting some young-teen over it. It's just the lack of effort of his costume and the lazy way he came up to me to say "trick-or-treat", it just lacked care or spirit, that he was just begging.
I truly do wish I could enjoy Halloween, but I was simply never allowed Halloween. I don't have any Halloween Spirit for it, and if I did was just wisps.
