It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn’t just the “unalive” “grape” alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like “gay” “hell” “fuck” etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It’s so tiresome and I’m sick of it.
shoutout to aromantic people who have a complex relationship with their aromanticism
I used to be the most simple, explainable ‘version’ of aro. I didn’t have any interest in relationships, never experienced anything close to a crush, and just felt very detached from romance in general
this hasn’t been the case recently and losing the assurance I had from how simply I was able to identify with that label has been pretty lame, and trying to communicate any of the complexities of my experience has been pretty awful
so yeah shoutout to aro people who’s experience with aromanticism isn’t easily explainable. shoutout to aro people who’ve experienced romantic attraction. shoutout to aro people who don’t know if they’ve experienced romantic attraction. shoutout to aro people who are interested in romantic relationships. and shoutout to aroallo people, generally
I love this post so much I have done everything in my power to make sure I will never forget it via reblogging it every October 5th, in memory of discovering it for the first time
