Why I Don't Like Halloween

I didn't always dislike Halloween. When I was a kid, I kind of liked it: I used to dress up as one of the Doctors from Doctor Who almost every year (see above) though hardly anybody ever recognized my costume. But I scored a lot of candy (which mostly wasn't stolen by my dad.)

When I started figuring out that I might not be the dude everyone thought I was, I had one really magical Halloween where I dressed up in borrowed clothes and a friend helped me with my makeup, and we went out on a busy s...