Dodecahedron314

The song I've had stuck in my head for about the past week is at 3:36, but I highly recommend watching the entire video, because all three songs are just absolutely stellar, especially the last one.

I have the opposite problem--in the extremely rare cases in which I have been hit on, I have invariably been 100% oblivious because it's just not a thing that even enters my mind. Both times that it's happened (to my knowledge, anyway), I only realized it because my friends told me what was going on afterward (although I still highly doubt one of those instances...but the most recent one was definitely a lot more suspicious, and a lot more creepy.) After the last instance, I'm starting to think I should perhaps start being slightly more paranoid...*shudders*

Alan Turing

To be fair, sittinf on someone's lap doesn't necessarily imply romantic attraction, my QPP does that to me all the time, monpolizes my arm, etc. Of course, that meant that in high school, everyonr mistook us for a couple (a lesbian one at that, which is doubly absurd because neither of us are female or allo), so I certainly won't deny that the implication of romance is a common one, it's jist that it's not necessarily universally applicable. I can certainly see why that sort of thing woild set you off though, it's completely understandable. (Sorry for the typos, the mobile site hates my phone and makes it so i can't edit what I've typed whenevr I'm making a post that includes a quote >.< )

Somebody asks you what a non-platonic relationship would look like and you genuinely have no idea because it's just not something you can really conceptualize.

I'm really lucky on the "forever alone" front because my QPP is grayro, but because there's very little chance we'll be able to interact much IRL until we're out of college (our schools are about 1100 miles apart), I worry that we'll grow apart and then when I graduate I'll be left with no one because all my other friends are alloromo (though one is questioning grayro, but they're graduating this year so I don't know that we'll stay in contact). It's not necessarily the knowledge that unless I'm secretly demi or something I'll never feel anything romantic that's the problem...it's just that friendship is one of the best things in the world to me, and it worries me how everybody generally says that friends are less and less of a thing as you age and everybody starts getting married. I'm not at the point in life at which that sort of thing starts happening quite yet, but I know it's coming, and sometimes I do worry about it (and the thought of having to attend all of those weddings as a romance-repulsed aro is nerve-wracking as well). I don't know, a lot of the time I wonder if it's weird how important my friends are to me, and I worry that it would come off as clingy if I were more open about it. Sometimes I get the feeling that people mean a lot more to me than I do to them. Wow, that wound up being way more of a long, rambling rant than I anticipated...

IRL stuff generally tends to trigger it more than in media, especially PDA--the closer the people are to my vicinity, the worse. (Especially if I hear kissing noises, that's just an immediate OH GOD WHY ALL THE NOPE) Media isn't usually so bad in small doses and if it's done tastefully so that it's not the main focus of whatever it is or it can be interpreted platonically, but if I'm exposed to a lot of it over time the cumulative effect can make me feel really terrible and broken.

Argh, same. What's really annoying in my case is that a lot of people thought that that meant we're a lesbian couple...when neither of us are female...or allosexual...or alloromantic. It's impossible for that misconception to be any more wrong.

This is why for the longest time, I just stayed as far away from fandoms in general as i could...and my limited experience with fandoms so far has indeed borne out my fears that everything would, indeed, be about shipping, even if there's so much more cool stuff to focus on in the show/movie/book (*cough*cough*the Night Vale fandom and its unhealthy Cecilos obsession*cough*cough*). That's...just...objectively the opposite of how you're supposed to watch movies... *scratches head at alloromantic people* *coughcoughcough*AGE OF ULTRON*coughcoughcough* Anybody have some anti-amatoniormativity cough drops? (Sorry for the typos, my phone isn't playing well with the mobile site for some reason and I can't edit anything I've already typed more than a few words ago for some reason)