If you’re in the Aromantic or Asexual community, or are an ally of it. Please also consider not misusing Psychopathy and Sociopathy as some horrible monster trait, or insult.
Being aro and ace, especially through history, and even up to now, has been seen as a mental or physical illness to be fixed. If you lack this specific thing, then you are seen as some horrible emotionless monster. Or that it’s so horribly sad you don’t experience something, and they hope you get to experience it one day. Which often really just means “get fixed” one day. As if your experience, or lack of, is some terrible void. Which it is not.
Being emotionless in any type of way does not inherently make you a monster. Lacking empathy does not suddenly make you worse, the same way not enjoying people romantically or sexually doesn’t either.
To clarify: I don’t think anybody should be using psychopath and sociopath as insults, or treat it as badly as it is treated in media. But I’m reaching out to the Aro & Ace community specifically because I think you could, to some extent, get it. Also, I have no doubt in my mind that they are IN the community already, and some of you have just not realized or thought about it yet. Psychopaths and Sociopaths, and all the other terms I have yet to know, are already standing beside you, fighting for the same right your are, supporting the community.
Tearing them down also tears down the community. Refusing their rights is refusing your own. Think about the words you use. Are you helping the community, or dissing it?
