September 2011
8 posts
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Here's why I don't understand romantic attraction:
aceadmiral:
So, every. single. time. I have felt romantic attraction (or what I think it is), I didn’t realize it until it was going on for a while. In one case, people would suggest to me that it was a possibility and I’d be like, “no, not really, I don’t think so,” except it was already happening.
So then, when I finally realize what’s going on, usually after I’m in *way* over my head, this...
misterstibbons:
Speaking of life goals/dreams,
I was pretty singularly focused on neuroscience/cognitive science for several years, and I still am, you know, incredibly interested (and my major is cognitive science, even) in it, but
My parents keep talking about neuroscience as if I am definitely going to go into it, and I just
There’s too much interesting stuff in the world I just want to...
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aceadmiral:
writingfromfactorx:
aceadmiral said this in a response to an ask, and I wanted to reply but there was no SPACE. So I’m reblogging.
I notice there have been several low-libido people or repressed people or Other Untrue Ace Stereotype people chiming in saying that they can understand because they know what society tells people who don’t have sex, too. And they can, to a point,...
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If the price of inclusion is the total erasure of...
And I say this as someone whose primary relationships tend heavily towards being with other women. (And that tend is a nod to people outside the binary, not men.) If you can’t accept my actual identity, if you can only interact with me as a lesbian or a straight woman, you can fuck off and you can take your whole community with you.
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aceadmiral said this in a response to an ask, and I wanted to reply but there was no SPACE. So I’m reblogging.
I notice there have been several low-libido people or repressed people or Other Untrue Ace Stereotype people chiming in saying that they can understand because they know what society tells people who don’t have sex, too. And they can, to a point, but the main harmful message of...
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Ace Secrets: Please take the Asexual Awareness... →
acesecrets:
Asexual Awareness Week (October 23-29) has created a census for asexual, demisexual and grey-a identified people.
To be scientifically representative, the census needs at least 500 responses. If this happens the results can go towards future academic research into asexuality, and give us a…
Remember when I was going on about how I wanted to see more up to date numbers on my...
captainheartless:
And as another note, what is passing privilege?
Does someone have passing privilege if they pass as something they are not? For example: an asexual passing as a heterosexual? A transman passing as a cisgendered woman?
Do they have passing privilege if they are passing as another minority? For example: an asexual passing as bisexual? A bisexual passing as gay?
And what if one...
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Can some knowledgeable aces help me out and...
In a word: confusing.
I should mention, I made that term up in the first place largely because I was frustrated with my attempts to understand what exactly constitutes romantic attraction (or specifically romantic relationships, even), especially given that every single person who was clear on the difference that I asked reacted to the question of clarification with confusion and incoherence.
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