AromanticAardvark

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Yep, it's a thing! (Although a bit of an old-fashioned aro thing, since I don't know a ton of aros nowadays who wear white rings.) I bought mine at a street fair in a big street near my house, but you can buy them on Amazon, Etsy, probably at Claires.. there's a lot of places to buy a plain white ring.

Me too! But I do recognize that as a product of having very supportive parents who didn't really force me to do anything, and who I don't think ever even told me "when" you get a partner. Other people didn't get that chance, though, and unfortunately amatonormativity is so prevalent in so many people's lives that it makes finding out they won't really be participating in the whole Romance Game a giant slap to the face

Oh I absolutely did, when I first realized I didn't really NEED to follow anyone else's rules for how my life would look. And then again, when I realized I didn't even need to have my labels defined by anyone else, and honestly no one did. It felt kind of like having looked at one of those paintings made up of little dots for years, seeing the same thing everyone else did, and then waking up one day and looking closer, and seeing the little meaningless dots that made up the picture

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You should put that into your character's backstory lol, maybe they were cursed to have everyone forget their name! (Apologies if this is wrong, I don't know anything about DnD)

Oh I love mushrooms! Do you have a favourite kind?

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I can't decide your identity for you, that's for you to say. But from what you've said... yeah, I'd say you sound pretty aro lol

Not aro themed specifically, but I did have a dream one time where I had a flower that I had to give to my crush, except I didn't know who that was

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I don't know for a fact, but I can make an educated guess. I think maybe humanity kind of needed something, some emotion, to bring people together and foster a sense of community. And why "love" instead of "happiness" or "envy" or "eating chocolate"? Imo, it probably has something to do with the fact that it's one of the few positive emotions that you feel that have to involve someone else. You can be happy for someone else, but you can also be happy because of a cool rock, or finding 20$ in the street, or a billion other things that have nothing to do with anyone else. You have to feel envy because of someone, yes, but that's not positive, and that's not going to bring people together. And I really don't need to explain why eating chocolate is not the major shared emotion that brings humanity together. Also, love is helpful from an evolution standpoint. For most of the world (obviously not for any of us, but still) love -> sex -> babies -> continuing the species, which is a huge part of any species and is probably hardwired into our brains

I'm so sorry your family doesn't accept you, that's a terrible position to be in. Fingers crossed they'll become more accepting with time, and as the world becomes more accepting. Here's a few pride stuff that's pretty subtle: https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/subtle-aro-pride-flowers-by-sunfloras/80362565.EJUG5 https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Aromatic-Pride-Unicorn-with-bee-by-Rainbow-Bill/112741085.S7RYU https://www.etsy.com/listing/1248279897/aromantic-pride-flag-beaded-gemstone?click_key=676c6549236a4a564d72cb85ba272017b7201404%3A1248279897&click_sum=f6fcc85d&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=aromantic+pride&ref=search_grid-745628-1-3&pro=1&sts=1 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1027081150/pride-scarves?click_key=dbffd9484e368f94b29860e547050b649ad28c8d%3A1027081150&click_sum=e3f90e36&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=aromantic+pride&ref=search_grid-745628-1-12 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1322339629/aromantic-pride-mushroom-sticker?click_key=592ed5d3a521f611eb7f048661ac18c6c608a62c%3A1322339629&click_sum=22da2fac&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=aromantic+pride&ref=search_grid-745629-1-23 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1238183875/aromantic-pride-flag-crystal-and-cat?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=aromantic+pride&ref=sr_gallery-1-35&organic_search_click=1 With at least some of these you can probably ask a parent for it and just say you liked the colours if they ask

Wow, that's insanely accurate, way more than I would have thought for an AI! Tbh I wonder what it means for AI as a whole if just one AI can explain things with that little context (since amatonormativity is, let's face it, not talked about very much outside of aro spaces)

This website is good if you want to also mention aro-alloness https://aroworlds.com/

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Oh same, I have to write a cover letter and figure out my topic for an essay before next Monday and I have NOT started