i wish there were deeper conversations about aromanticism and/or asexuality aside from the typical “they can date, its a spectrum, this is what a qpr is” because all of the aforementioned topics insist on defining being aroace in a way thats more easily digestible for those outside the label, still centering around what attraction is and then “but you still feel some attraction, dont you?” and then going, well, yes, technically, and explaining the exceptions to them; the exceptions are all they focus on, its “attraction lite” and the Lack of attraction is completely disregarded in favor of the little attraction
the amount of times ive seen people try to define what a qpr is and boxing that term into something so offensively simple and so catered to people who can’t comprehend non-conventional relationships is like. far too many. by defining it you are misrepresenting it because it is inherently a relationship outside of definition
and there is an intimacy in being aromantic and asexual and having your own personal view of what that means to you and i rly think its far more complex and interconnected with other queer identities than people bother to talk about !!! being aroace deconstructs so many norms in both straight and queer spaces that its a shame it isnt talked about more thoroughly in general