A community for Ace/Aro people to share stories, talk about problems, support each other and have fun!
'Allo, aro?
Just wondering if there are any other allosexual aromantics around? (Folks who are grey-ace or demisexual are welcome to chime in, too!) I'm not sure I know any other allo-aros around in real life, but I know there are more of us out there!
Join me, join me in commisserating about how so many people assume that aromantics are only asexual, like, "Asexual but more so." In the memes and lists about aromantics passed around that make you tilt your head and go "That's so not me." In the difficulty of explaining that "Friends with benefits" means you're actually friends and not using each other. Heeeeeyyy.




I find being aromantic rather amusing, frankly; now that my friends have just come to accept that it's what I am. Of course, I am friends while a most likely higher than statistically normal number of queer/gay/ace/non-cis people. We've come to describe me as basically Gonzo from the muppets. I'm not quite anything identifiable, but I'm still there and obviously a part. I have a phenomenally dirty mind, and read romance novels by the dozen. But the romance novels are more like humor combined with surrealism rather than something to identify with. It's just so absurd for me. However, psych professionals love to analyze me and try and come up with some serious, deep-seated reason that I'm repressed and unable to identify and be intimate with other individuals. The "don't worry, it's just a phase right now, she'll figure it out," that I heard one of them say rather made me want to just smack them that they would doubt that I'd know my own mind.