Can we have just one nice, anxiety-free day on our birthdays? Nope? All righty then. Chris and Allison blow out the candles on their anxiety-iced cakes and dive into what it is about birthdays that makes them spin out.Perhaps unsurprisingly for longtime listeners, Chris gets philosophical and slightly melancholy about the aging process, but wags his tail at the prospect of seeing all his friends gathered together at once so he can make eye contact and tell everyone how much they mean to him. Meanwhile, Allison cowers in social anxiety central (in a party of no more than six people) and kind of wants you to forget it's her birthday so she won't be the center of attention... but she also still kind of wants presents.Chris referenced this article from Refinery 29, as well as this article in Thought Catalog. Remember that we've got a Facebook group, We're Anxious About, where you're invited to our non-birthday party!Theme music: "I'm Not Nervous" by Square People, used under a CC BY 3.0 license, via the Free Music Archive