at what age did you discover yourself as aro??

[Blake]

Last year when I was 23. I was looking in the internet for information about gender identity and I stumbled upon AUREA, and the found this forum which I could relate to to a lot of experiences and that was it, after discovering this forum I claimed the aro label.

[HumanBeing26]

I figured it out when I was 12 because all of my friends are LGBTQ+ and we were reading an LGBTQ+ encyclopedia or something(it wasn’t an actual encyclopedia but it had a lot of sexualities and what they are) and it said what asexual was(it actually wasn’t a good definition because it described aroace more than just ace) and i thought it described me and so i reasearched it(meaning i went on aven and the lgbtqa wiki because there is nowhere else) and i found the split model of attraction and discovered i was aroace. then about 5 months later(i was 13 now) i figured out i was quoiromantic aroace

[Dino Sorcerer]

I was 15.

[void]

Pretty sure I knew since I was 15 but just discovered it now in my early 20s

[The Maelstrom]

Around 13 or 14, though I didn't pay much attention to it back then. I stumbled across the term on tumblr by chance.