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August 26, 2023 20:48
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Pip
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95.6%
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#FFE0EC
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Seriously, who falls asleep that quickly? Imagine being able to sleep without listening to a true crime podcast episode or immersing yourself in your imaginary dreamworld for at least an hour.
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August 26, 2023 18:00
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The Opposite of Curious
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82.2%
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#FFE0EC
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“Because I know myself. I know what I feel and … what I have the capability to feel, I think.” I smiled weakly at her. “I mean, how do you know you won’t fall for a guy one day?”
Pip made a face.
I laughed. “Yeah, exactly. You just know that about yourself. And now I know too.”
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August 26, 2023 11:49
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Jason
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74.5%
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#FFE0EC
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‘Just friends’ makes it sound like being friends is worse. I think this is better, personally, considering how terrible that kiss was.”
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August 26, 2023 11:45
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You Deserve Joy
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72.4%
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#FFE0EC
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I used to dream of a spellbinding, endless, forever romance. A beautiful story of meeting a person who could change your whole world.
But now, I realized, friendship could be that too.
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August 26, 2023 11:24
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Platonic Magic
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67.8%
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#FFE0EC
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“So … I never had any crushes when I was a child. Not any real ones, anyway. Sometimes I confused friendship for them, or just thinking a guy was really cool. But I never really fancied anyone. Even celebrities or musicians or whatever.”
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August 26, 2023 11:21
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Ellis
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66.7%
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#FFE0EC
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“I don’t like anyone like that. I never do. This is just who I am and one way or another, we’re all going to have to put up with it. I can still do amazing things with my life
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August 26, 2023 11:20
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Ellis
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66.3%
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#FFE0EC
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I don’t like guys. Oh, so you like girls? No, I don’t like girls either. What? That doesn’t make any sense. Yes, it does. It’s a real thing. You just haven’t met the right person yet. It’ll happen with time. No, it won’t. This is who I am. Are you feeling OK? Maybe we should get you an appointment with the GP. It’s called being “aromantic asexual.” Well, that sounds fake, doesn’t it? Did you hear about that on the internet?
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August 26, 2023 02:43
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Aromantic Asexual
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64.3%
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#FFE0EC
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romance. It was because of all of that, no doubt, that this new identity felt like a loss, when in reality, it should have been a beautiful discovery.
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August 26, 2023 02:42
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Aromantic Asexual
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64.2%
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#FFE0EC
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I was angry at the world for making me hate who I was
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August 26, 2023 02:42
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Aromantic Asexual
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64.2%
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#FFE0EC
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I was angry at every single romance movie, every single fanfic, every single stupid OTP that had made me crave finding the perfect
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August 26, 2023 00:09
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Survivor
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61.1%
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#FFE0EC
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Was everyone just having sex and falling in love all the time? Why? How was it fair that everyone got to feel that except me?
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August 26, 2023 00:08
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Defeated
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60.1%
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#FFE0EC
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wasn’t a fear or nervousness or “not meeting the right person yet.” This was a part of me. I did not feel the feelings of attraction, of romance, of desire, that other people felt.
And I wasn’t ever going to.
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August 26, 2023 00:08
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Defeated
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59.9%
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#FFE0EC
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It wasn’t just a dislike of kissing. It
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August 26, 2023 00:06
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Defeated
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59.5%
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#FFE0EC
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“I’ve never had a crush on anyone in my life,”
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August 26, 2023 00:06
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Defeated
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59.5%
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#FFE0EC
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I … I like the idea of it, but … the reality …”
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August 26, 2023 00:06
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Defeated
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59.3%
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#FFE0EC
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“I don’t like guys,” I said. “And I don’t like girls. I don’t like anyone. So I’m never going to date anyone.”
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August 26, 2023 00:00
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Capulet vs. Montague
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56.3%
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#FFE0EC
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I would never be one of these people. Flirting. Falling in love. Happily ever after.
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August 25, 2023 23:46
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Fantasy Future
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50.5%
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#FFE0EC
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in the evenings, or going on a couples’ holiday to Disneyland.
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August 25, 2023 23:46
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Fantasy Future
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50.3%
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#FFE0EC
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There were so many things that I would never do. Would never even want to do or feel comfortable doing. So many little things I’d taken for granted, like moving into my first place with my partner, or my first dance at my wedding, or having a baby with someone. Having someone to look after me when I’m sick, or watch TV with
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August 25, 2023 22:22
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Wank Fantasy
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48.0%
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#FFE0EC
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they can’t even help it?” I spluttered. “People have dreams about it because they want it that much? How the—I’m losing it. I thought all the movies were exaggerating, but you’re all really out there just craving genitals and embarrassment. This has to be some kind of huge joke.”
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August 25, 2023 22:22
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Wank Fantasy
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47.9%
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#FFE0EC
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“People are really out there just … thinking about having sex all the time and
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August 25, 2023 22:20
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Wank Fantasy
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46.7%
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#FFE0EC
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People didn’t really just look at boobs or abs and get turned on. Did they?
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August 25, 2023 22:14
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Mirage
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43.7%
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#FFE0EC
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was there.
A mirage.
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August 25, 2023 22:14
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Mirage
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43.5%
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#FFE0EC
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I could see it all, all the time, all around, but when I got closer, I found that nothing
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August 25, 2023 22:14
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Mirage
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43.5%
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#FFE0EC
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It was so easy to romanticize romance because it was everywhere.
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August 25, 2023 22:10
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Mirage
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42.6%
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#FFE0EC
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“Asexuality means I’m not sexually attracted to any gender. So I don’t look at men or women or anyone and think, Wow, I want to do sexy stuff with them.”
This made me snort. “Does anyone actually think stuff like that?”
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August 25, 2023 19:58
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Could Have Gone Harder with the Pride Flags
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39.3%
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#FFE0EC
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I quickly realized my socializing reserves had been utterly depleted by what had honestly felt like the longest day of my life, and
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August 25, 2023 19:51
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Mr. Self-Confidence
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36.7%
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#FFE0EC
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He’d felt pressured into having his first kiss. Because people were bullying him for not having kissed anyone, he forced himself to do it, and it was bad.
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August 25, 2023 19:51
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Mr. Self-Confidence
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36.7%
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#FFE0EC
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I knew what it was like to feel bad about not having kissed anyone.
And to feel pressured into doing it because everyone else was.
Because you were weird if you hadn’t.
Because this was what being a human was all about.
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August 25, 2023 14:28
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Dating Skills
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28.0%
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#FFE0EC
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“Who thinks about sex that quickly?”
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August 25, 2023 12:17
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Chaotic Energy
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23.0%
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#FFE0EC
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“Ah, but I have the Short Person Anger advantage.”
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August 25, 2023 03:38
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Baby’s First Club
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16.7%
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#FFE0EC
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But I wasn’t attracted to any of them.
I didn’t feel any sort of desire.
When I tried to picture standing close to them, kissing them, touching them …
I grimaced. Disgusting, disgusting, disgusting.
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August 25, 2023 03:38
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Baby’s First Club
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16.6%
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#FFE0EC
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There were guys who had fun hair or good fashion or a nice smile.
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August 25, 2023 02:26
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Baby’s First Club
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16.1%
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#FFE0EC
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Don’t do drugs!!!!!
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August 25, 2023 02:26
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Baby’s First Club
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15.8%
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#FFE0EC
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I was not having fun.
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August 24, 2023 23:24
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Romantic Thinking
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11.6%
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#FFE0EC
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I didn’t know how to mingle solo.
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August 24, 2023 22:33
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Change
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8.1%
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#FFE0EC
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and I loved it because I felt like I was in The Secret History or some other deep and mysterious university drama where there’s lots of sex and murder.
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August 24, 2023 22:31
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Loveless
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7.1%
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#FFE0EC
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“But the reality disgusts me.”
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August 24, 2023 22:26
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Tommy
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4.2%
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#FFE0EC
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It was fun to read about in fanfics and see in movies, but the reality was kind of just like, Oh. Yikes. I’m uncomfortable, get me out of here.
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August 24, 2023 22:25
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Truth or Dare
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3.9%
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#FFE0EC
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I’d spent so much time thinking that my one true love would just show up one day. I had been wrong. I had been so, so wrong. Everyone else was growing up, kissing, having sex, falling in love, and I was just …
I was just a child.
And if I carried on like this … would I be alone forever?
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August 24, 2023 22:20
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Romance
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2.4%
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#FFE0EC
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All I had to do was wait, and my big love story would come. I would find the one. We would fall in love. And I’d get my happily ever after
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August 24, 2023 17:39
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Last Chance
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1.5%
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#FFB
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He was tall and skinny and conventionally attractive in a Timothée Chalamet sort of way, though I didn’t really understand why everyone was in love with Timothée Chalamet.
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