#plato repulsed aromantic culture is

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Plato repulsed aro culture is thinking about how rapidly society would advance if the arospec community would start saying "nonromantic" instead of "platonic"

yeah, and if other people also started doing this. (bc I see ppl outside the aro community do this a lot too)

see also : if people would start saying 'nonsexual' instead of 'platonic' if thats what they actually mean

Its okay to say platonic to mean friendship, but it can be really annoying when ppl keep saying 'platonic' as if its merely an absence of romance and/or sex, and as if romance and/or sex can't occur alongside friendship for some people.

Also when aros and other ppl don't want me to assume theyre expressing romantic attraction or something, they can just say they mean it nonromantically instead of platonically bc it would cause me to feel repulsion if they expressed platonic feelings/attraction for me.

[aro-culture-is]

Demiromantic Aroflexible, Plato-Repulsed Aplatonic culture is

Person: So you want this? (Romantic relationship)

Me: Mhm.

Person: But you don't want this? (Platonic relationships)

Me: Correct.

Person: Ok so in order to have this (romance) you need to do this (make friends).

Me: >:'(((

[plato-repulsed-culture-is]

Being aroaceapl with a toxic family culture is feeling lonely all of the time and hating talking to another person even more. At least I have my art, I can just lose myself for hours drawing. My life is not bad tbh, it just sometimes hits me a little and I don't know what to do. I think I just need a therapist, I'm starting to save up for a few sessions.

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[plato-repulsed-culture-is]

plato repulsed aro culture is struggling to maintain your identity as an aromantic because ooooooooh romance 👀 oh platonicism 😐.

im close to someone who is also aro and i hate talking to them about my media interests because its feels like theyre judging me for thinking the boys are pretty. they are.

Yeah I feel that.. its a reason I often feel less aro, and Im sorry you're in that situation, you shouldn't be judged for your interests.

[plato-repulsed-culture-is]

Plato-repulsed alloaro culture is not being able to use interest in friendship to make people see your orientation as less "harmful", because you don't want to engage in friendship to begin with. And being tired of some alloaros acting like we have to like friendship to "make up for" being both aromantic and allosexual, or as if friendship is required in order to respect someone you're sexually involved with.

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Plato repulsed aromantic culture is wishing there was a similar but different word for "queerplatonic relationship" because you really relate to the concept but the word platonic is just YUCK

There are actually other terms like 'queer(relationship type)' like queerromantic, queersensual, etc. you can also coin your own term if that helps !!

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Plato repulsed culture is wanting to follow aspec blogs but they only tag for romance and sex mentions, not platonic/friending/family mentions. So you just can't because it grosses you out.

YEAH this is literally part of why I have asexual and aromantic and aspec tumblr tags filtered even though Im aro myself