aegoromantic anticarnal aroace culture is feeling like you never fully fit in either aroace discussions or allo discussions. Bc you can talk about ships with allos, but then they start talking about wanting their own relationship, having crushes on the characters, or being intimately attracted to them, and you feel uncomfortable and left out. And you can talk with aroace folks about not feeling attraction/being s*x-repulsed, but then they start talking about how they hate when ppl get in relationships in media and how they want it to all just be platonic, and how shipping can get toxic/uncomfortable, and now you feel wrong and left out there too. And like, that’s all totally and completely valid, but it feels really isolating. And even aegoromantic spaces are often conflated with aegos*xual spaces, so it’s just like, “where am I supposed to go now?”  It’s just not a good feeling when there’s no community you can fully feel welcome in.
Yeah, I get this, I tend to put myself out as just aroace because nobody knows about aegoromantic/aegosexual and I don't want to explain it every time. I've already had people say to me that "aroace doesn't exist" so it gets pretty isolating when I cant talk about my favorite ships.