Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11518342-20131004220111/@comment-10734109-20131005150901

Can't dress up this year :( My parents said I'm too old. The thing that's getting to me, though, is that I haven't even GONE trick-or-treating since I was 10!

When I was 11, I was getting over a cold and felt too sick to go more than halfway down our street.

When I was 12, I was catching a cold and I decided to stay home with my sister because she was in the middle of her cold. (I had this really cool Sailor Mercury costume, too!)

When I was 13, I was really sick and couldn't go for my last year of Halloween (We were dressing up as a family, and I was supposed to be the brother because I kept asking over and over to be him xD). I asked my sister to stay home with me and she said no and went and had fun anyway not even paying any attention to me, and I felt pretty hurt and cried after she left :(

I'm hoping that maybe I'd be allowed to go with a few of my friends this year for the first time, but I don't know how to ask. They say that people will look at us weirdly because we're older than most kids, but to be honest, if you have a REALLY good costume and don't think you're too cool to dress up the whole way (rather than the people who dress in all white and call themselves polar bears), then people will treat you just like anyone else because they know you're coming for the fun of dressing up and still are a child at heart rather than someone who's just walking the streets taking candy. One of my friends said that her group of friends she went with was too old for trick or treating, and when I looked at their "costumes" they just looked like regular clothing, mostly. I was just kind of thinking, "No duh." If you're going to dress in normal clothing, at least make it look like SOMETHING special.

I keep trying to convince my friends to dress up as Santa and his elves for Halloween, but no one has agreed with me :/