Rather self entered approach to "gift giving" - special gifts on special days are no better nor worse that random gifts on random days - rather gifts are quite neutral! The people who give them are not, and their reasons are as varied as your arguments for hating your birthday. Who made you "king" to decide certain days are not worthy of gift giving, and even worse that gifts on birthdays must have been given obligatorily! This truly reflects who YOU ARE not who the gift giver is. It reflects YOUR inner false motives for being generous, kind, thoughtful, concerned.... the litany can go on. Look in the mirror next time such negative subversive ideas emanate from your thinking and you'll certainly see the reflection of yourself and your motivations in life, not of those around you..