what is ace/aro culture someone please help
- Picking up any aesthetically pleasing book.
- Putting down the aesthetically pleasing book after reading its dull amatonormative/heteronormative summary.
- Mourning the waste of a good book cover on a dull narrative.
- All your relatable protagonists are aliens or robots.
- Or, all your relatable characters are antagonists.
- Or, all the relatable narratives are Science Fiction and/or Horror.
- Taking “Netflix & Chill” quite literally.
- Thinking about a future without all your most important friendships, and dissociating to avoid the impending anxiety and panic attacks.
- Refusing to buy anything that doesn’t perfectly fit your aesthetic.
- Feeling incredibly overwhelmed and emotional when something perfectly fits your aesthetic, like, to the point of tears.
- Somehow being very good at relationship advice, even though the thought of giving relationship advice is mentally exhausting.
- Your wardrobe becomes black, purple, and gray without you even trying.
- Being paranoid that your innocuous interactions with people will be misinterpreted as flirtation.
- Dadaism makes more sense to you than it should.
- Trying to be as repulsive as possible so people don’t hit on you.
- Trying to be as aesthetically attractive as possible, not realizing that people will hit on you.
- Not realizing that people are hitting on you.
- People think you’re “eccentric” for spending so much time and money on things rather than on other people.
- Zoning out to daydream about epic fight scenes while your friends ask you which person is more attractive to you.
- Thinking about getting married for the tax benefits, and the idea of political marriages isn’t so weird to you.
- Eating all of food at parties because everyone else is hooking up, and someone has to do it.
- Getting asked out to prom by someone who has a crush on you, but choosing to go with two friends as your ‘date’ instead.
- Isolating yourself so you don’t get too attached to people.
- Also, getting attached to people.
etc.
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