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mercaesan

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  • Orientation
    Most likely aroace
  • Gender
    Female
  • Pronouns
    She/her
  • Location
    New England
  • Occupation
    Student

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  1. I keep thinking about the time when I complained about the later books in the Harry Potter series -- that all the falling in love is boring, and why would you worry about dating when you have Voldemort to fight? Then being told that it's a representation of the high school experience that most people relate to... I was very clueless about other people's priorities as teenagers. I also like to imagine stories and have since I was a kid, and I realized recently that I used to always make my characters get married when they grew up because that's what I thought adults had to do. The rest of the story would be super detailed, and then I would imagine the romance in about as much detail as, "and then she met a nice man and they got married," then move on with the story with the husband as a very minor character. This too, and then when they had problems with their relationship, my first thought being "so why are you dating, it would be easier if you just stopped." And a very big sign I was aroace as early as middle school -- I heard of different orientations (might have bit a bit late with that, I was the kid in sixth grade who knew that "gay" meant "cheerful" and could not figure out why some kids seemed to use it as an insult. Which is not okay in any case, but I really thought they were calling each other cheerful.) And I couldn't figure out how you were supposed to know which gender you liked. It took me until 20 to slowly realize that I was the only person I knew who couldn't tell...
  2. Thank you! I'm learning French and Russian.
  3. Hello! I thought I should introduce myself here, since I've recently come to the conclusion that I'm probably aromantic! I have been quite confused about romance, but reading some of the posts on Arocalypse was very helpful. Especially how non-romantic forms of attraction are not described as lesser. I read the definition of "squish" in the handy list of terms here, and realized that it precisely describes how I've felt before, which is what had been confusing me! Anyhow, I'm 20 years old and in college, and my favorite things to do are hike and ski, play the clarinet, read, and learn languages.
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