Aro Culture Is Wishing Someone Would Prioritize You In The Way Romantic Partners Are Prioritized

KAPOW!!!!!

Every time I think about myself I end up crying to sleep

What coming out as aroace feels like

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

Everything indicates I'll have to outgrow her, but I don't want to.

Tell me if you think I'm boring or if you just take me for granted

I’m not “a little bit” in love with my friends. I’ve straight up just been-

IN LOVE WITH MY FRIENDS

I’ve always felt infatuated about my friends! I just love them so much!!

You always hear, “You need to be best friends with your SO”

But why can’t they just be friends? Why do you need a romantic add-on? You can literally do everything with a friend I don’t understand.

This is an aromantic message

All that I know about me is that I exist. To me I've always existed and the fact one day I won't exist anymore terrifies me.

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