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I think a lot of acts of love differ from each culture. certain things are seen as romantic or sexual in some places are just seen as platonic in others. most things aren't inherently sexual or romantic. I often hold hands and cuddle with my best friend. I'm aroace and she's straight. There are zero implications other than platonic love.

As someone who doesn't experience that much attraction, that seems pretty frustrating and I'm sorry. Maybe try thinking of other benefits to being aroace. From what I've seen (I could be very wrong), the a-spec community jokes about being immune to attraction and that kind of stuff, but I think it's mostly because people who don't understand it think that there's something wrong with it and that's our way of pushing back or taking back the narrative. I love being aroace because I don't feel any pressure to get married, or find the right one. I'm not worried about having to deal with messy break ups or cheating or anything like that. My life is solely reliant on me. I feel like so many people wait to be in a long term relationship to start their lives but not me! I choose my own timeline. I'm not waiting for anything or anyone I can't control. It's all up to me. It's my life and will always be my life. I can stay in my parents house until I'm thirty and won't have to work while I'm in college if I want. I don't have to worry about finding people to date, or feeling lonely because I'm single. It's pretty freeing when I think of it like that. I don't really have an advice on what to do with your attraction, but I hope this is helpful anyway.

I love being aroace most of the time but once in a while, I feel really different or other from everyone else. I don't mind being different, but sometimes it feels othering in a bad way, like I'm wrong. (Which objectively I know isn't true)I figured I can't be the only one that feels like that sometimes. What do you do when you feel that way?

My sister made it for me. I always wanted a profile picture with me but not my face so my sister drew this and added the aro flag when I asked her. She also made an ace version and I'm thinking of asking her to make one with aroace flag. She's super awesome

I have a white ring and black ring but I wear those every day, other wise, not really. I've looked at etsy stuff before but I'll definitely look for more. I don't know if I have aroace colored clothes but I'll take a look. Thanks for your suggestions!

I realized I was aroace earlier this year so this is my first pride month and I'm wondering what ways I could celebrate it. Any ideas? I don't think my city has any pride events or parades, so I can't do anything like that.

Literally never had a crush on anyone and the idea of dating and getting married always made me anxious

this is super helpful! thanks so much, I'll definitely check it out

Hey, I recently realized that I'm aro and a friend of mine recommended this forum. I grew up in a very religious environment where dating was taboo so I didn't realize I was different until now. I always thought I wanted a romantic relationship because that's what everyone did. A few months ago, I realized I was ace, and that led me to realizing I was aro too. Once I came to the conclusion that I don't actually want to get married, so many things made sense and I was able to picture my future in a way that I couldn't before. I came out to my siblings and friends before my parents, and they were all super accepting which made it easier to tell my parents who are also accepting. I'm very happy with it, but I don't know anyone who's aro in real life and I'm here to hopefully see other people with similar experiences.