I started feeling this way once I hit 16 or 17. And I feel this way because to me they are so manufactured. There always seems to be so much manufactured affection and emotion.

For example, everyone feels obligated to say happy birthday. Why are you only happy I was born today? You haven't spoken to me in months. If you cared so much about me, we would be talking or getting together more. Why are you all buying me gifts today? If you find something you think I'd like, buy it and give it to any other day and I'll appreciate it all the same. In fact, buy me a gift in a random month and give it to me on a random day and I'll probably appreciate it more. It means that you were actually thinking of me and trying to make me happy with an act of kindness. You weren't fulfilling the yearly ritual of forcing yourself to buy something for me.

My SO hates how much of a scrooge I am regarding all of these special days. But to me, the emotions feel fake and the traditions are forced.