Honestly while I am aroace, I always find my aromanticism to be way more important than my asexuality. I will definitely speak on ace stuff as an ace person, but I just find myself more reflective upon my aromanticism more, and I feel like it shapes me as a person more, so I tend to focus on it.
I can relate to this. Maybe it's because I'm still new to discovering aromanticism is even a thing, whereas I'd known about my asexuality for a couple of years. But even though finding out the word 'aromantic' was a big relief and I feel like it applies to me and explains my feelings, I'm not sure I've come to terms with it yet? I'm still finding myself reading romance books and thinking "but maybe I might feel like that about someone one day", even though if I actually try to imagine myself in that situation, I just can't, and I didn't like it in real life when someone felt like that about me.
I don't know, I think it's probably because society is so so allonormative and I haven't got used to it yet. But can anyone else relate?
15 hours ago, PeepsInTheChiliPot said:
I just got my aroace pin in the mail! I really like it and I’m excited to put it on my bag. Anyone else have aro/ace trinkets?
Nice! Not yet for me but I've made things that kind of subtly have the purple/white/grey/green colour scheme. I like that together the aro and ace flags are kind of the same colours as the suffragettes' too, I find that cool!
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I can relate to this. Maybe it's because I'm still new to discovering aromanticism is even a thing, whereas I'd known about my asexuality for a couple of years. But even though finding out the word 'aromantic' was a big relief and I feel like it applies to me and explains my feelings, I'm not sure I've come to terms with it yet? I'm still finding myself reading romance books and thinking "but maybe I might feel like that about someone one day", even though if I actually try to imagine myself in that situation, I just can't, and I didn't like it in real life when someone felt like that about me.
I don't know, I think it's probably because society is so so allonormative and I haven't got used to it yet. But can anyone else relate?
Nice!
Not yet for me but I've made things that kind of subtly have the purple/white/grey/green colour scheme. I like that together the aro and ace flags are kind of the same colours as the suffragettes' too, I find that cool!