#i wish i cld tag this for organization but i dont want people to discourse on my post

[verdantmeadows]

I will ignore ""canon"" aroace P3ridot (censored show it doesn't show up in tags) now and forever because just since ONE crew member said they viewed her as the aroace rep in the show doesn't mean she IS. And also because literally several crew members shipped her romantically with other characters.

One crew member hcing it means nothing. And also if she was, that representation was just shoehorned in and smacked onto her because they didn't genuinely take the time to care about representing aroace or aspec people. Like, no offense, but if she was intended to be the aroace rep, I don't think crew members would have been shipping Am3dot and Lapid0t. (Not that those can't happen if she is aroace, but I sincerely doubt that they'd be putting in the consideration of that.)

Plus, it adds to the autism=an inability to love and aspec=you must have a disorder that means you can't feel those things. (Both of those things can be true and it's fine, but it is an ableist and harmful stereotype that many/all autistic people can't love properly and the homophobic stereotype that aspec people have to be explained or need a correlation between their orientation and medical conditions.)

I also hate it because people assume it means ships with her can only be queerplatonic now when in fact there are many aroace people who have romantic and/or sexual feelings towards others.

I still headcanon her as it personally, but that doesn't mean it's truly canon nor does it mean she can't romantically love people. Aros who fall in love exist.