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Naegleria fowleri

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  1. I’ve noticed that the color green seems really appealing to me now lol. I wonder if it’s a subconscious thing because I’ve finally accepted my aro-ness. 

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      Naegleria fowleri

      So when I was a kid my favourite colours were green and purple, but I could never choose between the two. After several years I decided I liked green more. A few years after that was when I discovered I was both aromantic (green) and asexual (purple), but I felt more strongly about my aromanticism (green). I was a little mind blown!

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  2. So, I did a peer review for a girl's essay today and her topic was "Can you find love online?". The first sentence of her essay says

    "All of us want that special moment where we lock eyes with a beautiful stranger and fall madly in love." The last sentence in the essay says "Isn't finding love what everyone wants?" I have typed on the cover letter that not everyone experiences romantic love and I tried to present myself in an educational way. Based on this, would any of you find something like that invalidating? Tomorrow is the scheduled day for my class to share their feedback on the essays they were assigned to review and I plan to show her my thoughts. If anyone would like, I can update you on the results and her reaction.

  3. Happy thanksgiving! ?

    1. Naegleria fowleri

      Naegleria fowleri

      Pshh... American.

       

      ( :

  4. Was explaining aromanticism to someone today (a stranger who overheard me talking about it with someone else) and when I explained that I don't get crushes or date or anything like that he legit asks me, "So... what are your goals then?" Lol. We had a good chat.

    1. Naegleria fowleri

      Naegleria fowleri

      Right so for some reason or another I've designated myself "aro spokesperson" and so any time I get an opportunity to reasonably work aromanticism into a conversation I usually do (I suppose it helps that my family is cool with it and I've had some great responses in the past). But anyway, I find these conversations really fulfilling because when this person said, "But, everyone gets crushes," I replied with, "Well, how can you be so sure?" And I saw him slowly start to question his worldview. We kept going, he asked how did I know I wouldn't have a crush later in life? And I said, well maybe I will. But that doesn't mean I'm going to let that change the way I identify now. And I likened it to, well, how do we know a person who identifies as straight won't have a same sex attraction later in life. How can anyone really identify as anything, if we think that way? And he said he liked that way of looking at it.

      Maybe this is a university thing, but I've found a lot of people I've talked to appreciate being exposed to something new. They look at you with a sort of awe for having discovered this about yourself, in this world, and then standing up for it.

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  5. Presented on Aro Spec Awarenss Week at school today! It was terrifying. BUT, my teacher is amazing! Kept saying how we should stop assuming things, and then when I showed her the aro spectrum identities she said she thought she might be demiromantic! I thought that was cool. So it was terrifying but 100% worth it.

  6. My aro pride shirt came today! I got it from this website if anyone wants to browse the garb:

     

    https://www.lookhuman.com/

    1. Naegleria fowleri

      Naegleria fowleri

      Yay, another Canadian! I'm from BC, wondering why it's so darn hot this far north ?. Have fun at your pride!

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  7. hey siri??? if some hypothetical aroace individual has never actually properly come out to someone throughout 4 years and now they've internalized so much fear about it that it's become a control issue and they don't know how to explicitly divulge this information to anyone? asking for a friend

    1. Naegleria fowleri

      Naegleria fowleri

      Baby steps? Perhaps they can start by telling someone online outside of Arocalypse, someone they'll never meet in real life (if this hasn't happened already). Then maybe they can mention to someone open-minded (a classmate, a coworker, a loose friend) that aromanticism/asexuality exists. Then work up to coming out to friends and/or family.

       

      You've got 835 friends on here rooting for you!

  8. I wish aro socks existed. But nobody wants to acknowledge us in their cutesy pride merch.

  9. EVERYONE NEEDS TO LISTEN TO  WILL JAY'S NEVER BEEN IN LOVE IT IS AN AROMANTIC ANTHEM AND NEEDS ALL THE ATENTION!!!!

    :clapping::clapping:

    1. Naegleria fowleri

      Naegleria fowleri

      Yessss... I've been trying to write a song like this! Thanks for showing it to us!

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