My fellow aroace: you ever have some kind of passing allo encounter and have a vivid parallel-universe flashback for how miserable life could be if you hadn't figured out the ace thing already. Or is that just me

😭 I get this so bad

Like!! No shade to ppl who like that stuff, but man my life would be sooo sad if I was still chasing "well I just haven't met the right person". I'm so happy to like being alone and knowing why I like it

Exactly! I'd much rather surround myself with friends than any of that stuff I was Not built for a relationship, something I only discovered after being in one

yeah, luckily for me it didn't take a very long relationship/too many of them to be like, WOW this ain't me, maybe I AM this microidentity ace-derivative thing I'm hearing about on tumblr... oh! that's it! wow! no more dating!! yay! the version of me that never learned that is so. so much worse off

same, i was only in a relationship for like 2 months before I realised I couldn't do it but. It wasn't a fun two months 😰

yeah that was about my length too... kept expecting things to change for me... eventually he figured out he was into it more than me and broke it off, which, power to him, but WOW do I not like being romanced!!! get it away!!