A.romantic

Jackie Susanto

I like being alone, but not really. 

Sometimes I feel alone, but not in the good way. 

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We’ve built this idea that aromantics are without feeling empaths cannot experience love 

You say sexuality is a spectrum, 

So let me find my place on that spectrum.

 

Romance and sex are not the same, 

Yet there is all this media that makes you believe they are. 

I’m not incapable of love. 

I’m not incapable of feeling. 

I yearn to have a closeness just like you. 

Please. Stop singling me out. Stop invalidating me. 

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You say that you welcome all identities, but you single out two: 

aromanticism asexuals 

You push the narrative that it is not normal to not want to be in a romantic relationship 

to not yearn for someone sexually 

to not want to have sex. 

A doesn’t stand for ally. It never did. A stands for asexual and aromantic. 

A stands for Me.