AceCephalon

Yep, that’s how things start after all.

Hi, here’s your pretty much useless furry check.

Double meaning entirely intentional, because funny.

I’m honestly surprised I’ve not seen anyone make that connection for a joke, thanks dyslexia, it’s pretty funny.

Totally not completely cursed, and those example sentences absolutely didn’t make me regret being literate.

Yeah, pretty much same here, except I’m Asexual and seemingly Aromantic, and yet still get stupidly attached to people I’m close to anyway, just not romantically, and it’s not really focused on any one person in particular, and it’s incredibly confusing to figure out what it means at times.

Also, apologies for the long flowing sentences, it’s the other two "A"s kicking in, Autism and ADHD, but stringing together sentences is much closer to how I talk with conversations and stuff, as opposed to the usual stop and go of putting periods in places, because who needs stopping to take a breath when there’s still more of a train of thought to continue…

…I got side tracked by being reminded of something again and the explanation was longer than the original comment, seems about the usual for me.

This really isn’t the grand insult you seem to take it as. It’s a meme, not a 100% serious statement or comment about other people.

Aromantic people get told all the time all kinds of things, ranging from being called some emotionless machine just because they don’t feel attracted to people romantically, to many other colorful insults I can’t quite think of off the top of my head, and those are insults.

And neither is this saying any kind of relationship is bad or “weak” to have, there’s different kinds of relationships, and they don’t necessarily have to be romantic in nature to have deep meaning or connection to them.

In many cases those non-romantic relationships can mean more than a romantic one for some people, and in that way, it goes against what feels like the world telling everyone that you absolutely need a romantic relationship.

Edit: Nearly forgot to mention, but the broad generalization you made in the last sentence doesn’t really apply either.

Not everyone within a category or group thinks or feels the same way. Some aromantic people decide they want to try romantic relationships anyway, despite the lack of basic attraction to it, the same way some Asexuals might decide to try sex despite the lack of sexual attraction, while others might avoid it entirely.

I’d just checked, there’s at least two communities, albeit super small, 1-3 people maybe one has 13 as of now, the other has 42.

Edit: I found that one too, as well as aromanticism @lemmy.world, although I’m not sure how to do links to places quite yet. And I linked the same one of two, fixed now, and maybe fixed the link? Unless !aromanticism@lemmy.world is the correct way to link it? I’ll just do both and figure it out eventually. Both work on one app, and only one works on two different other apps, neat.

Edit: Somehow typo’d an “n” instead of an “m” again after fixing that last night, for reference, the one starting with ! works on Liftoff, and the one starting with /c/ works on Liftoff, Connect, and Jerboa, and on Liftoff specifically, the ! version opens directly to the community independent of my instance, and the /c/ one opens the community as viewed from my instance.

In the off chance the link to the other one above doesn’t work on a specific platform, !aromantic@lemmy.ml might work.

Edit: I did the search in the wrong place, apparently there are some already, nice.

I’m curious when Aro/Aromantic might appear on here, it was nice occasionally checking there from time to time. And yes, I thought of that because I saw the second bracelet,(? If that’s what those are called, I’m not great with putting correct names to things consistently.) and thought it’d be nice to point that one out too, especially as I’m also Aro as well.