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I’m not sure if this the right space for this but has anyone read, been reading or planning on reading this book that JUST came out called Dear Wendy (by Ann Zhao)? I just really want to share this because I’m buried in this book right now. (Disclaimer I’m not the author lol) I’m halfway through it right now and it is the dream aroace rep for me. it’s about 2 aroace college students’ friendship (and humorous internet feud) and I think they eventually get into a QPR? It’s pretty well written imo. Mentions/has all the aspec jargon: amatonormativity, “is aspec part of lgbtq” discourse, platonic vs romantic attraction, coming out and the nuances of it, etc. So if anyone else has read it, what do you think of it?

Oriented aroace, ISFP (we’re so rare!)

I’m Chinese. My parents are pretty open minded compared to most Chinese parents but they’re still a bit lgbtphobic. I can tell they aren’t/wouldn’t be comfortable with the idea of me being queer. I haven’t come out as anything to my mom yet, because she has said stuff like lgbt people are weird and she “doesn’t understand their lifestyle” etc etc. I remember sitting through a piano lesson where she and the teacher were chatting on the side - they were enthusiastically mocking trans people while i was just there like 😑😡. i have come out to my dad before as bi, and he was mostly supportive about it but didn’t seem to want to talk about it much. I once brought up the existence of ace/aro people to my dad, and he said he “doesn’t agree with the lifestyle” (as if being aro/ace is a choice 🙄) because he thinks marriage is an essential part of life. And my mom keeps saying “when you find a boyfriend/husband in the future…” and gives me advice for my future love life which annoys me, as well intentioned as they are. The good thing about them is that they’re pretty liberal. They’ve stressed to me that they want me to live my life however I want. And they’ve let me occasionally go to my school’s queer club (though they were skeptical about it). So that’s pretty nice. Regardless, though, I don’t really know when, if ever, I’ll come out to them. There will need to be a lot of explaining which I don’t know how to do. And they might not understand anyway. I might just save myself the trouble.

The only way I could do that was if you wanted me too I could come and pick it out and then I can go pick up it from your place or you could just pick me out of there

Stars

OMG ARO MART

Q: what is your occupation? Wrong answers only A: dragons are approaching the destruction of earth.

im offended by the fact that you’re a frog and I’m only a tadpole

alert: oncoming rambling and potential unintentional bragging

When somebody asked me in elementary school who I had a crush on and I didn’t have one, I picked my closest friend (of the same gender) and, when everyone stared at me weirdly, insisted that I didn’t want to date her and only “liked her as a friend”, but that regardless I still had a crush on her. facepalm (also internalized homophobia 😭)