Alaska Native Manitou

  It might be aesthetic attraction.

Call yourself what you need to.

I grew up in the Alaska wilderness.  We were far from people but some animals would eat out of my hand, & my best friend was a wolf.  Since then I've lived in towns & now a city; I've taken care of dogs, cats, rabbits, goldfish, parakeets, cockatiels, & chickens.  I also remember the forget-me-nots & sitka spruces in Alaska & have had various houseplants, particularly aloes.

Which non-humans have been important to you?

My bff is straight but she says the bond she has with me is something special.  She also said that this song is a good description of our friendship:

Welcome.  On AVEN you're offered cake, but here it's ice cream.?  You may notice a mascot called Papo.

The number of times people have "liked" your comments?

You have to go to your Edit profile page & click the Enable status updates in the upper left.  "What's on your mind?" is on the forum page under RECENT STATUS UPDATES.  You can also go to your profile page where under Activity it says "Write a public message on your own feed..."

I get aro=arrow, but that flowery bow makes me think of Cupid.?

You are not the only one.  And "No love is wrong" is badly phrased.?‍♀️

For me being aromantic, asexual & genderless seemed like the same thing; I only recently learned that it's different for other people.  I have been confused by sexual dreams & aesthetic interest, but I'm at peace with that now.

Then I'll have to say "oldest child;" my parents had another after the divorce, but we weren't raised together.

If you think Washington is too rainy, try Ketchikan where it rains every day.  If you think the American South is conservative, Alaskans actually elect nutjobs like Sarah Palin & Wally Hickel.  

I was born in Ketchikan, Alaska; raised in The Kenai National Moose Range & later Aumsville, Oregon; I'm now in Salem, Oregon.  I have pictures of these places on my profile page under "about me."

Why wouldn't it?  People have all kinds of reasons for dressing the way they do.  If dressing a certain way makes you happy sometimes:  go for it.  If someone else doesn't like it, that says more about their issues than yours.

You aren't the only aromantic who enjoys romantic stories.

I don't know how to answer the 1st question; I was sort of raised as an only child but I had older siblings from my father & stepmothers earlier marriages.  They had their own families but spent a lot of time with us as well.

I'd rather make a pointless post in this forum than get married.

• Backlash~The Undeclared War Against American Women~ by Susan Faludi
• Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk & John G. Neihardt
• Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria (also the album by Floyd Red Crow Westerman)
• Eastern Standard Time by Jeff Yang, Dina Gan, Terry Hong & the staff of A. Magazine
• The Innocent Man by John Grisham
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (a good movie too)
• I Am Prepared to Die by Nelson Mandela
• Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford
• The Investigation of Ralph Nader by Thomas Whiteside
• The Last Algonquin by Theodore L. Kazimiroff
• Material World by Peter Menzel
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
• Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford (don't watch the movie)
• People of the Deer by Farley Mowat
• The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home by Jonathan Kozol
• North American Wildlife by Reader's Digest
• Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein
• The Right to Privacy by Ellen Alderman & Caroline Kennedy
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (the movie is overrated?)
• The Sword and the Dollar by Michael Parenti
• Top of the World by Hans Reusch (the movie version is called The Savage Innocents & it's as bad as that title)
• The People's Almanac by David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace

How about the "alicorn" then??  Their horns generally point upwards.  If AVEN has dragons, Arocalypse can have unicorns.

My father grew up on a farm raising crops?‍?, knew everything about building/fixing houses? & traveled everywhere he wanted by hopping on train boxcars?.  I am not a physically strong person who can do those things.  Although he wanted me to be a carpenter like him, he was impressed by my genealogy research?.  My best friend is good at tribal arts like archery?, beadwork? & riding?.  I lack the dexterity & am afraid of horses.  Yet she admires my deep spirituality? & envies the fact that I've never been a fool for love?.  Nobody can be good at everything--but you have things you can do better than others, too.?

I lost a job cleaning government buildings last year?, then found a job telemarketing & polling this year☎️.  Now the government offices are shut down?, but I can do this job from a computer at home. ?

Aromatherapy. 

• Bigotry aka patriotism
• Elitism/victim-blaming
• Fascism
• Hypocrisy
• Narcissism/cultural appropriation
• Greed/climate change

Shakespeare plagiarized the story from the poem Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke. ?

There are Native stories like this, but the lovers are considered villains for not caring how their behavior will affect their communities. ?