Romance. The level of amatonormativity that is there is still so high, the constant arophobia and acephobia I 👀 and experience everyday, especially considering the fact that most of it is done unintentionally is SICKENING.
It shows how uneducated people are about these topics. It makes me feel hopeless about my situation as an aromantic.
Most days, I really enjoy my identity and I enjoy looking at the posts and 😅 along, relating to some more than others and God there’s just this feeling of being right that I get when I hear the word aromantic. Like yes, this is me. This is beautiful.
And then there’s other days, days where I 👀 how fucking constricting and atrocious some romance is. Days where just the thought of people being involved in such an act is just so…ick and the fact that people are so blind and ignorant about it and they think that they’re just being “cute” and just the general over-prioritisation of it especially over friendship and basically just EVERYTHING ELSE in life just makes me want to get violent and hit them really hard several times.
These are the days. The days that seem to be the longest. The days where I’m just so fucking 😠 at the state of it all, so fucking 😠 at me just for being me.
Then there’s some recollection. And in this said state of recollection there is some ✌️ that comes with it. ✌️ knowing that there are people who feel like me, ✌️ knowing that there are actual people who 👀 the effects of amatonormativity once they are told of it, ✌️ from the community around me. ✌️ at the beauty of good friendships and just the mere existence of them even when you don’t have them. And ✌️ that there’s more aromantics, fighting, educating and thriving and that they’ll keep doing just that.
So please, please save an aro-spec and educate an ignorant soul and keep doing it. Keep fighting against the amatonormativity. Tell people. Educate people. Aro-spec or not, let’s fight this together. Look at how far validifying other LGBTQ+ people has taken the 🌍. From the time where they thought there was no hope up until now. Imagine if we slowly eradicated amatonormativity. How beautiful would the 🌍 be?
