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Have you guys tried one-ingredient banana ice cream? It's delicious!

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Wild elephant!

Would you rather have a life time supply of chocolate or a life time supply of macaroni and cheese?

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Not exactly the same thing, but when I was a teen at a summer camp once, I was put on a "crush list" (where people anonymously wrote down the names of people they had crushes on) very early in the week. Unfortunately for me, this particular camp has a "prom" at the end of the week. It wasn't the kind of couples prom that happens in schools, but apparently it was close enough. I figured out who the person was pretty quickly because he was trying to get me alone and sit with me at meals. I learned to eat quickly and silently when he was with me and leave, and always stay with other people. I suspected he wanted to ask me to prom. I successfully avoided him until about an hour before prom, when he gave up on getting me alone and just asked me in front of a group of people. I acted confused about what he was asking to buy time, and then told him it wasn't that kind of prom (which it wasn't). Then I RAN out of there into the women's bathroom. I stayed there until prom was well underway, then went to bed. 

I have worried about this a lot too. I'm really shy, so I don't make friends easily. I have accepted that it's likely I won't ever be the most important person in someone else's life, and that's okay. One time, I had success with getting to know and becoming friends with my friend's girlfriend. Of course, that caused awkwardness when they broke up and I'm still friends with both of them, but if they're all adults, they should be able to handle it. I'm hoping that as people get in more long-term relationships, they will be more likely to want friends in addition to their relationships. 

Another solution to this is to keep building an aro community! As more and more people come out as aro, there will be more and more aros looking for friends who won't dump them once they pair off. 

I was into creative writing when I was around 16. I wrote a whole bunch of short stories. I recently looked back and realized that for the entire year or so that I was writing stories, I did not write a single story with a romantic relationship in it. I wrote all different kinds of stories, but none with relationships, even between minor characters!

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YMBAI you don't understand why tiny things like holding hands are so important to many people (The Beatles wrote an ENTIRE song about holding hands!). 

YMBAI it took you awhile to realize it's easy for most people to tell if they have a crush on someone.