happy pride month to aroaces who feel ZERO romantic or sexual attraction and identify as gay/lesbian/mspec via other attractions (alterous, sensual, platonic, aesthetic, etc)
the rhetoric that aromantic = not wanting to date and asexual = not wanting to have sex when it’s actually about romantic ATTRACTION and sexual ATTRACTION is so frustrating.
when i say im on the aroace spectrum, im not saying that because “sometimes i just dont want to date +