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PUPPY IS NOW 2 YEARS ON T!!!!!!!!!

Four-leaf Clovers from Real Life are intersex!

The requester elaborates: " I do consider them to be a lot like intersex people recently, I think that would make a good symbol for a community:

1) 4-leaf clovers are NOT as rare as people make them to be (just like intersexuality isn't really that rare and comes in all shapes and forms, AKA there are also clovers that come with many more leaves on them), I've collected them for a few years and I have a pretty big collection

2) While there are some theories on why this may occur, it's still a mystery why some clovers come out with four leaves, just like many intersex variations are still a mystery

3) While in lots of cultures intersexuality is seen very negatively (for shame), sometimes it has very positive connections with divinity, beauty and luck (Ancient Greece for one), and luck is a wide belief with four-leaf clovers

irl, i live alone. irl, i am disabled. irl, that intersection and my lack of interest in partnering actively makes life really hard. everything is expensive. i can't always cook when i want to or have fresh ingredients, because my symptoms don't care if I want to cut up vegetables and eat something homemade before they go bad. if I have a bad flareup and getting up is not in the cards, that's it. i have what's next to me. the lack of social support for single folks, for disabled folks, for folks whose family care is inadequate or damaging... it's impactful.

I talk about how i once visited a place with an ex partner. i mention how our relationship started because i was pressured into it, and i wasn't really into the level of seriousness and 'forever' she treated it with. everyone says it's weird that i agreed if i didn't want it to be serious. i remember being 16, saying no, and a chorus of people telling me i was stupid and immature, that her family was rich, that we would be cute and to listen to them, not my heart. my heart was saying nothing.

i look at my current age and life goals. for many of my peers, dating and marriage and eventual kids are common goals. i am watching my rights erode and trying to practice good mental hygeine. my five year goal is to be alive. my next major life milestone is a nebulous desire to find a life i can tolerate living.

being aromantic significantly impacts my day to day. i want to see aro people living their lives, and doing so with joy. i want to see aro adults making it, ones like me. i want aro people to thrive. i want to live, aromantically.