#acoplatonic

[pride-hearts]

Acoplatonic Hearts

[receivingtranny]

i think it's important to recognize as a person on the anattractional spectrum (personally i'm aroaceflux, acoplatonic, greyfamilial, neurosensual, to name a few) that a huge part of breaking down amatonormativity is about designing your own meaning of love/attraction, deciding what *your* boundaries are, and what different relationships mean to you.

i think that people on the aspec are more susceptible to hyper-individualist propaganda that exists in our capitalist society. due to amatonormativity causing so much social ostracism for us, it's easy to become hyper-independent and feel like you don't need anyone, or any form of community more specifically.

it's easy to push yourself into a corner and isolate yourself. but we need people, to lean on, to have our back. not in a romantic, platonic, or even familial sense.

i'm talking about when a stranger holds the door open for you when your hands are full, when your mutuals reblog your art, or when the worker at the local sandwich shop remembers your name. humans are still social creatures, even when loveless. and it's important to recognize the validity of being loveless/anattractional without cutting yourself off from the world.

(obviously, it'd be a lot easier if amatanormative bullshit wasn't literally everywhere you look.)