*not realizing i can't distinguish btwn platonic and romantic attraction* "What do you mean people aren't open to date almost all of their friends based on how practical they think the relationship would be???"

There's this thing that's happened to me a few times now. To someone I'm not out to, I describe my relationship to romance/my lack of interest in it honestly and immediately get pathologized. "What's wrong with you?" "Did something happen to you?"

Most allo people are so far removed from a life without romance that they think you're sick if you don't want it. They invent dark, traumatizing pasts to explain you away. The idea that this is simply who you are doesn't seem to cross their minds.

Both times, this was dropped when I came out as aromantic. This feels worse to me. A person living my exact life is unwell to them unless they use an arbitrary label. That doesn't feel like acceptance. It feels like being too afraid of being viewed as Problematic rather than any meaningful acceptance and understanding of my personhood.

romance is so fucking boring why don't you kill and eat eachother instead

today i think i will cause problems,… aromantically…

Gonna start saying "love is a strong word" the same way people say "hate is a strong word"

romance isn’t dead, but with your help, it could be. let’s bury the body together.