YOU ARE STILL ARO/ACE IF:
- you experience rare romantic attraction
- you experience rare sexual attraction
- you experience romantic/sexual attraction but do not desire a relationship
- you don't experience attraction but desire a relationship
- you feel tertiary attraction AND sexual/romantic attraction
- you used to be in relationships and had attraction, but don't anymore
- you have libido, enjoy sex, etc.
- you are completely repulsed
- your aro/ace identity/intensity fluctuates
- you don't know how to label yourself
- you don't want to label yourself
- you enjoy romantic/sexual content
- are aro/ace due to trauma
- are indifferent rather than repulsed
- you use multiple labels
- you feel romantic/sexual attraction, and fantasize about being with that person, but wouldn't actually date them or do things with them
- you are aro/ace but identify with another label off the aspec
- you crush on people, but it stops there and you don't wanna date!
- you fantasize about sex/romance, not just fictional but in real life, but once it's about to happen or it comes up, you don't actually want it
- desire a relationship but can't feel attraction
- can't differentiate between attractions
- can't differentiate between attractions due to being neurodivergent
- are on the aspec due to being neurodivergent
- you have 'contradictory' labels
- you feel non-tertiary attraction sometimes but don't use a label that describes that, just using plain old aro/ace instead! keeping it simple :3+<
- if you identity as aro/ace!!
Made this post bc of my aroace crisis and feeling kinda invalid/left out being grayromantic asexual but still experiencing rare romantic attraction (please ask for more to add to the list!)
THIS IS TO ALL MY ORCHIDROMANTICS/SEXUALS, GRAYROMANTIC/SEXUALS, CAEDROMANTIC/SEXUALS, APOTHIROMANTIC/SEXUALS, LITHROMANTIC/SEXUALS, MYRROMANTIC/SEXUALS, DESINOROMANTIC/SEXUALS, REQUISROMANTIC/SEXUAL, RECIPROMANTIC/SEXUAL, CUPIOROMANTIC/SEXUAL, ANGLED AROACES, IDEMROMANTIC/SEXUALS, NEBULAROMANTIC/SEXUALS, NOVIROMANTIC/SEXUALS, PLACIOROMANTIC/SEXUALS, FRAYROMANTIC/SEXUALS, DEMIROMANTIC/SEXUALS, ZINNIAROMANTIC/SEXUALS, ICULAROMANTIC/SEXUALS, AMIDS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO FEELS LEFT OUT.
AS AN ARO/ACE PERSON, IF YOU ARE ON THE SPECTRUM, STOP INVALIDATING PEOPLES' IDENTITIES. WE NEED ASPEC SOLIDARITY, NOT DISCOURSE. IM NOT SAYING "oh, just tolerate them! we have bigger problems than.." NO. ACCEPT THEM. SUPPORT THEM.
(Ily also just aroaces that are more recognized, but I want the people who feel left out to know they're loved)
OP rarely feels romantic attraction but only uses aroace to describe their identity! I used to use grayromantic but less labels :3
