Because The Og Post Had Reblog Bait And Really Doesnt Help People With Ocd:

Tell me if you think I'm boring or if you just take me for granted

It's always "aros can still date!" "aros can still be in (any type of non-romantic or romantic) relationships!" "aros aren't heartless!" "aros can still love in different ways!"

Well, sure, you do you.

But not all of us. A lot of us are *completely* non-partnering. There's loveless aros. Aplatonic aros. Hell, even heartless is a label some aros use!

We don’t need to do anything to "replace" the romantic relationships we don’t have. People can be completely happy alone! Without a partner! (Shocking, I know!)

I'm just a bit tired of all the amatonormativity I still see under some of the trending aro-positivity posts...

Every Nico Di Angelo fan focusing more on the background of the episode than the actual plot

This year I spent almost half of my paycheck to throw myself a birthday party and my mom asked me why I was putting so much effort on my own birthday and I felt like crying because I just know that if I didn't do something for my birthday there wouldn't be anything, it would be just like any other day.

In 19 years of my life, I only had 3 birthday parties and in 2 I bought or baked my own cake.

It's so curious how there's a high chance that I'll never know my cause of death, because maybe it will be something sudden that my brain won't process at all before dying and then other people will know. But I won't.

Probably what bothers me the most in media is how being 'just friends' is seen as something bad, something nobody wants. The classic downtrodden expression of 'we're just friends,' like it's a failure. Why is friendship seen as a step, not a final goal? Why can't we see deep friendships between people on TV and not have it portrayed as 'not enough'? There are so many types of love, man, and every single one of those is enough.

girl with naturally clear skin will never understand how annoying it is to have acne. how it fucking hurts to buy a ton of products but still wake up with the same ugly skin that ppl blame u for. like obviously i tried washing my skin, i tried all the acne products i could, i hate how my family always reminds me of it, as soon as i feel confident they just have to tell me that i should stop doing this or that as if i hadn't tried it already

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

if you aren't just a tiny bit in love with your friends then idk you might be doing something wrong

I’m not “a little bit” in love with my friends. I’ve straight up just been-

IN LOVE WITH MY FRIENDS

I’ve always felt infatuated about my friends! I just love them so much!!

You always hear, “You need to be best friends with your SO”

But why can’t they just be friends? Why do you need a romantic add-on? You can literally do everything with a friend I don’t understand.

This is an aromantic message