Why do my cousins always exclude me from family gatherings?

[Bkay123]

My grandmother on my mother’s side was one of eighteen kids. My mother has always kept in touch with her cousins. We met up with the cousins for my great aunt’s 96th birthday. Now I’ve met many of times and it’s always the same reaction. The old hey how are you then that’s it. No one interacts with even when I try to be social. Same thing with my female cousins on my father’s side. They all talk and keep in touch but can’t be bothered to include me. Most of my cousins are women. The only reason I think it might be is because I’m a guy. I don’t know. I try to keep in contact with all my family but I’ve just given up.

[Finchie40]

Probably because you are a guy and they assume you won’t really enjoy your time with them considering it sounds like you didn’t enjoy the times you were with them before , so you probably don’t have much in common with them as to why they exclude you , they don’t hate you, they just know you didn’t really have a good time with them so they figured why bother you , so you can say hi how ya doing and then go do your own thing? They assume you are a party pooper so they figured why bother you