techno

octopus

1608???

crashing

creepy

1605

Easy! I'll just spent it all right away and not say anything until I'm done. A million dollars, but for the rest of your life, animals will avoid you.

1603

oh

mop

1589

An amputee and his tin can brother fail to resurrect the dead and accidentally save the world from a government conspiracy through the power of friendship.

This is hilarious. The original "Submarines" by The Lumineers: "Submarines" run through Catalan, Polish, and Romanian:

1576

game

For me the repulsion is mostly auditory (I definitely have issues with misophonia, so it could just be a facet of that). Like, the sound of kissing is one of the many sounds that hardcore squicks me out. It's also like... seeing things that would typically be associated with a sound that I don't like? Like if I see two people kiss, even if I can't hear it, it'll elicit a similar response. In media, books are totally fine (it might annoy me but it won't usually result in repulsion), songs are fine, movies and TV it depends. Real life is definitely the worst contributor, because of the auditory thing. It also depends on who it is, how close I am to them both emotionally (like whether or not we're friends) and physically (in terms of literal proximity). And if it's directed at me, it'll be a thousand times worse!

It's funny, two of my best friends just kind of... know?? I never really outright told them. The knowledge just kind of came upon all three of us around the same time! I suppose they might consider that a high honor, having been part of the discovery. The first person I ever actually came out to, I only came out to as ace, although I implied I was aro. It was to another one of my very close friends, who had a crush on me as it turns out. So he texted me, and in this long-winded, fake, drawn-out lie in which he told me his sister's friends all thought we should date and then proceeded to say "haha what if we did" and then when I freaked out he said he was lying, but only about part of it, and meanwhile I was texting aforementioned two best friends and panicking, soooo I told him I was acting weird not because of him but because I was asexual. Which isn't really using the proper definition of asexual, but it conveyed what I wanted to convey to someone whose reaction I could only guess blindly about, and I figured he would be more likely to know the word asexual than the word aromantic. I was right, and it was fine, and while I'm not sure he has any recollection of me coming out to him, we've still been good friends ever since. The second time I came out was to three people: one was another best friend, who I'd already spoken to about being aro, just without using the words, a girl I was friends with at the time but have since drifted apart from, and another girl in our school's band. We were in a practice room after school before a parade or something, and we were discussing sexuality and gender since there was a presentation on it in health class (a story for another time). The topic of asexuality and the ace spectrum came up, and there was a lot of misinformation so I decided, okay, guess I'm coming out! So I did, as both ace and aro. My best friend is acutely aware of my aroace-ness though I don't think she quite understands labels, but that's okay because she's still super understanding and actually agrees with a lot of what I say. The girl I was friends with at the time kind of sounded like she pitied me, which was annoying, and then it was like she forgot (I think I've talked about her before on here... in fact I feel like I've talked about a lot of these people over and over). As for the third girl, she probably doesn't remember and that's honestly okay with me!

For me, like several people on here have said, it was less that I thought I was anything and more that I just kind of defaulted to "uninterested straight person." I didn't really actively consider myself straight, I just figured I didn't have any sort of realization of being attracted to girls, so I was probably just straight but not interested in anyone. Then I discovered the words ace and aro offhandedly one day, but I still just kind of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ through the whole thing for a little while until a few things happened after which I just kind of slowly settled into ace and aro spaces. So it was something like: uninterested straight person --> ace??? aro??? both maybe but what's the difference between sexual and romantic??? ehh whatever --> yup i'm aroace this is fine

I took the test, and I got: Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 106 of 200Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 90 of 200You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical traits ...well that's inconclusive.

I was wondering how many of us on arocalypse play instruments!