#-salem

so we mustered up the courage and came out to them as endo and... it went well ??? they asked about me being endogenic but insisted they are first and foremost my friend (and apologized for a prior member being a bit too aggressively anti-endo before) and like... i'm stunned. genuinely. just. stunned. it went well. they seem to accept me being endogenic, offered their support as a system themselves, and insist i'm still their friend.

sexuality is a funny thing, i guess. i first started questioning my sexuality in middle school, over a decade ago now. and yet i'm still making discoveries.

i've always been very much a hopeless romantic, with my primary dream since childhood to fall in love, get married and have children. i love reading romance stories above all - my favorite genre, outside of film, tends to be romance. i've been huge into shipping and all that since i was young. i think it's because of that that, despite identifying as demiromantic for years, i've always hesitated to call myself aroace/aroace-spec. (aromantics and those on the aro spctrum can absolutely love romance, wanna fall in love, etc - but even when u know something, applying it to yourself is an entirely different ballgame)