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How often do you feel romantic attraction? How intense is it?

You get growing pains too.

I can sing anything flawlessly.

You may have confused your feelings for that person with a crush when in actually it was a squish (a desire to have a closer platonic relationship/create a platonic relationship with someone), it's very common with arospec (aromantic spectrum) people.

I would recommend reading up on some arospec identities and seeing if anything fits, as well as general aromantic experiences. This forum is a good place to do that. There is a list of arospec identities here, and the same website has other aromantic terms as well if you would like to look into that.

Good luck figuring out your identity, it can be tough. You don't have to figure everything out right away either, this kind of thing can take time.

You end up like Midas but with pencils (everything you touch becomes a pencil)

I can control the weather.

Fern seems cool, I hope people use its it/its pronouns more often. I like its name as well. I see from its profile that it has the same birthday month as I do!

bird

Your hair can also control you.

I can time travel.

You're better at French but your French skills had to borrow some of your English skills.

I wish for some spaghetti.

But you always get put in completely random parts of the books.

I can talk to animals.

9 hours ago, Rony said:

It's better to say 'aros can be of any sexual orientation and part even don't use this label' than 'not aros are aces'.

I'll take that into consideration! Also part of that was a typo on my part since I posted that at midnight, it was supposed to say not all aros are ace ?

18 hours ago, Mark said:

Something important is busting myths and stereotypes.

Such as:
Aros can be of any sexual orientation, rather than just asexual. Maybe specifically mention that this includes (cis) heterosexual women a demographic who are often stereotyped as hyper romantic.

Definitely, I'm planning on including a part that clears up some common misconceptions about arospec people, since I realize that is important.

I've also added a part that says aromanticism is different from asexuality and not aros are ace, since many seem to equate being aromantic with being asexual when that's not true for everyone.

I did notice I was getting tired of hearing my alloro friends talk about their crushes after I found out I was aro but that may be because they started talking about them a lot.

absolutely, sexual attraction and romantic attraction are different for some people.

Which means you can also smell underwater (think about it.... ugh)

I can become invisible

15 hours ago, Apex said:

I can relate to this. For some odd reason I have this hangup about valentine's day stuffed animals ? They're so cute, and every year I wish that I had a partner who could give me one! The yearning for some stupid "I <3 U" plush dog is usually the most feelings I'll have towards the holiday. It does feel a little lonely, like I'm missing out.

Aside from that I don't really care about it. It doesn't bother me, and I do see it as a holiday to celebrate all relationships even if it's marketed towards romantic ones.

Exchanging those silly valentine's day plushies with friends could work. Honestly it sounds really fun, I would love to receive a platonic "I <3 U" plush from a friend.

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I've never cared about it except for in elementary school when all classmates would give and get candy and cards.

ace (i hear aces like dragons and are often associated with them)

From what I've gathered that's kinda part of romance in a way, like it's a special relationship different from your friends, though I still don't get why romance is prioritized so much.

26 minutes ago, Moistopinions said:

This is so crazy because I'm actually on here for the same reason, I'm presenting for my college's pride alliance! I included the same info that you said you have already, but I also made a slide with aro representation in media (mostly fictional, but still representation!) and some of my arospec headcanons for fun :) 

I wanted to make my presentation engaging so I included some discussion questions at the end so we could have a causal talk instead of me just throwing facts at everyone for an hour haha. Here are some of my questions, and you're welcome to use them as well!

• How are some ways that our society marginalizes people on the aro spectrum?
• In what ways can we support our aromantic pals?
•  How can we deconstruct expectations for all people to experience romantic attraction?
• What are some takeaways from this discussion?

Discussion questions are a great idea, I might use that! Good luck with your presentation.

Enjoying romance in fiction doesn't exclude you from being aro at all, lots of aro people love fictional romance, myself included. The aromantic experience is very diverse.