i'm gonna have to make my point its own post but. so far my experience being Aromantic and Asexual culturally feels like being a 2000s gay person in 2026, even around other queer people.
like the experience of not necessarily being hated but when conversations get to a Something they do not know how to adjust to your existence?
having to call friends on innocuous statements that don't make sense to them why they're wrong or assumptive? has happened to me at least a couple times and i know that's not crazy but its gone on way more times in vague relation to being aroace?
having a mini-feud with the culture war that my friends don't really get despite all being extremely left just because its never something that's applied to them (like i would really like to adopt a child on my own at some point or be able to pay for a Fucking House Independently)
kind of being a trope? like i'm the AroAce friend. when they talk about Allosexuality i'm like a third guy about it. when it's like what's up with Wax oh they're the aroace (NOT OFFERED UP).
just like not being Gotten. i've come out to at least one older person and i'm Keeping it at that and he already expects me to grow out of it. its not like any of this stuff is even deeply upsetting to me
