#greypl

Grayplatonic culture is having rare or few platonic connections, but when others are attempting to have that connection with you, you can’t seem to feel that towards them, and wonder how others experience it so easily. Especially if another person is a tad pushy and extroverted, it makes you majorly ✨uncomfy✨ when they ask if you’re friends and require sensual touch in which you’re not really open to but cannot easily explain to people that you don’t want to be involved with that without making them upset or seeming rude. Aplatonic spectrum struggles 🥲

Grayplatonic culture is only realizing platonic attraction is an actual emotional desire the first ever time you feel it. Like, oh, people weren't just exaggerating friendship all the time! They actually get some sort of emotional connection out of this! Okay, good to know!

Apl culture (or greyplatonic in my case) is enjoying hanging out with your friends, and thinking that that's platonic attraction, then seeing people talk about genuinely caring and loving their friends, and then you're like... uh, what? I only feel that very rarely!

apl-spec (for me specifically frayplatonic and grayplatonic, but this applies to other apl-spec identities too) is realizing that you're apl-spec because you have those rare instances of platonic attraction to compare your typical feelings towards your friends to.