Halloween season, to me, is the sign that fall is here, and I love fall, but having my least favorite holiday kick it off doesn't really put me in the right mood.

I know it's weird that Halloween is my least favorite holiday; why would anyone dislike haunted houses, candy, parties, and dressing up? Well, I love the horror aspect of it, but the idea of dressing up is something I've never liked to do. When I was younger, I either dressed as the same Disney princess or something simple like a witch that required me only putting a hat on and when middle school came along I was one of the first that stopped dressing up and never wanted to trick-or-treat.

My dislike of trick-or-treating is mainly my parents' fault. They would take all the candy that I had spent hours gathering, pick out the unhealthy ones (as if they aren't all unhealthy, to begin with), and throw them all away. I would always be left with 20-30 chocolate bars that I couldn't even eat because my parents hid them from me. Once middle school came along, I had already developed a dislike of most candies, so I stopped trick-or-treating and followed my friends around as they did their fair share of "Trick or treat!" When we all regrouped back at the house, I would take all their Reese's (my favorite candy) from their bags, so it wasn't ever necessarily a fun time for me.

I guess as a whole it's not that I hate the things that come with Halloween- like fall, haunted houses, and scary movies- but rather the actual holiday itself, with the trick-or-treating and dressing up. So, if you ever see a girl out on Halloween night in leggings and a hoodie, just aimlessly following her sister or friends around, you know you've found me.