Don’t you ever dare to say that representation doesn’t matter, when I started to cry, while reading Loveless by Alice Oseman, at the part where Sunil told Georgia that there wasn’t anything to be done about being aroace and that all she needed to do was be who she was.
I cried, because it was the very first time I have EVER seen aromanticism and asexuality represented in a book, having a big part of my experience in a book and that book telling me it is OK and that I didn’t need to do shit to be whole and accepted.
And it is not like I was terribly insecure about my sexuality but this book hit so hard.
So don’t you dare say that aroace rep doesn’t matter.
[Image Description: Two images set to the background of a flag with three stripes; the upper and lower stripes are both light red, the middle stripe is a darker red. The first image is of the five striped Aro Ace pride flag. The stripes in descending order are orange, yellow, white, light blue and dark blue, and they go down horizontally. All stripes are of equal size. The second image has the Autism Speaks logo crossed out with a ‘no’ sign. Another image at the bottom reads “TERFs, exclusionists, transmeds, and queerphobes, DO NOT INTERACT! You’re out of touch and we hate you almost as much as Autism Speaks”. End Description.]
Being born aro/ace is like being born to defy society’s heteronormative ideals and that’s kinda like being born to be punk and I think that’s very cool of us.
Just a reminder because apparently people don’t realize this, but the rainbow gay pride flag isn’t like…a gay male pride flag? it was literally meant as a pride flag for everyone in the community. not that there’s anything wrong with specific identities having their own flag, but i keep seeing ppl post flag sets as if the rainbow ride flag only represents gay men and saying that not including every single other flag known in existence means you’re excluding people when no it’s not the rainbow flag is for everyone
Just found out that green is associated with aros because it’s the opposite of red which is considered the “romance color” :0 that’s so cool, did y’all know that?
Lmaooo my dad just told me my aromanticism is a phase and i just haven’t met the right person AND that I’m too young to know aromantic bingo is filling up
is it just me or is it super hard to accept and come to terms with aromanticism? like im aware that im aro, but there’s so many doubts and it was way easier for me to accept im ace
happy aromatic awareness week everyone!! this community is my favorite ever <33
valentines day was rough this year, my best friend, who i happen to love queerplatonically, left my school and now i won’t see him as much and i was just so alone and sad on feb 14, but then i had a bit of an aro reawakening (im aroflux) and im just so grateful for you all for making me feel like i have somewhere where i belong. hope everyone has a great week!!
One of the privileges of being aromantic: you can laugh at people’s love problems, because it doesn’t make sense to you anyway. Side effects: may cause people to think you’re a psychopath
