Yarenios

Many people that I have come out to have said I am too young to be aromantic or just a late bloomer (I started id-ing as aro at 16). I wonder how far off I am from the average arocalypse user and what those demographics look like.

I'm a Conservative (capital C not lowercase ?) Jew and I agree with a lot of what you say. I appreciate the questioning nature of Judaism and I feel like that has allowed me to come to conclusions about my aroaceness and my religious beliefs that I may not have otherwise. I am very culturally Jewish and pretty religiously Jewish (although I see God as more of a concept or idea than most). All my Jewish friends are very allo and rather preppy so spending time with them is always interesting. Anyway it's cool that there are other Jews like you out here since we are what .5% of 2% (at least in the US)?

I am 16 now and discovered about asexuality and aromanticism about 6 months ago. After sharing the same reasons as you and realizing my past history of incomprehension with romance and sex (I remember an argument I got into about abortion because I couldn't for the life of me understand why people always said abstinence was impractical), I accepted the labels as they fit far better than straight etc.. ever would. It actually took a fair number of conversations (mostly with by bi and lesbian friends because no one else talked about this stuff) because I was reluctant to "constrain myself" and I had always imagined marrying (in a relatively platonic way) and having kids, but I think it would have been disingenuous for me to keep deceiving myself. So since you sound similar to me, I would hazard that there is a very good chance you are aroace but that is really up to you to decide (Sorry for the convoluted sentence structure and parentheses everywhere I'm totally a concise and articulate person ?)