“I have shared with Alec,” [Maurice] said after deep thought. “Shared what?” Google asked. “All I have. Which includes my body.” Google sprang up with a whimper of disgust.
Our own community has gotten better about not assuming all aro people are ace, but the people outside the community… not so much.
I ask my friend for advice on rejecting someone gently. They say, “just tell her you’re ace”.
I’m at the hospital talking to the other patients in the unit, they ask me if I’m straight. I say, “no, I’m aromantic”. A few don’t know what it is, so I explain. One responds, “oh, so you’re like, asexual?”
I draw an aro flag on my arm for pride month. Someone sees it and asks why I don’t just use the ace flag.
I tell my friend that I’ve dropped asexuality from my label due to people constantly ignoring my aromanticism in favor of asexuality and due to feeling like my lack of sexual attraction is part of my aromanticism. They continue to call me ace.
I tell someone I’m aromantic. They call me ace.
Non-SAM aros and alloaros are erased by alloromantics all the time, no matter how much we explain that we aren’t ace. Yet another example of people not listening to aro people, as if we don’t already have a surplus :/
