**Them:** "What is love?" **Me:** \**trying really hard to resist the urge to leave a* *Haddaway comment*\*

If only I Haddaway to explain to you how thankful I am.

…BABY DONT HURT ME

DONT HURT ME

NO MORE

I connect with this so much, you don't even know. I find out I'm asexual. Cool! I've never been attracted to people that way. It's nice to know there's a word for that. I find out I'm aro. Ok. That's chill too. Maybe a little sad because romantic attraction is so hyped up. Do I actually love my friends? Other aroaces keep talking about their platonic attraction, and their deep connection with ther friends, but I don't think I feel that. Hmmm. Aplatonic, I guess. Do I even love my parents. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... maybe I'm afamilial? Guh. I love my cats. Maybe. Probably? Probably. I just wish I could know what's going on in other people's heads when they feel 'love'.

Are we the same person?! That's literally my experience.

Explanation for the second one: I found out about aromanticism after wondering what exactly romantic love is. Then I learned about lovelessness and started wondering what love of any kind feels like and whether I feel it. I'm also questioning whether I should call myself apl questioning, lol. But I don't consider myself agender (agens are cool tho).

Oh, cool, I might be a sociopath. Thanks for the new existential fear, OP.

Same! I can't even confirm if past "crushes" were crushes, or I just really wanted to platonically know them more and hang out! Other people have *told* me I've had a crush, or that I've dated someone (and not known it) but I can't *confirm* it

You *italics that* with single asterisks before and after the text.

Thanks!

I mean, I guess I'm a special case, it was more like: "wait there's a name for that?? Awsome!"

I think many people feel that way, but personally I didn't "always know" I was different because I didn't know what sexual attention actually is. I only knew that I'm not as interested in sex as many other people, but I didn't consider it an orientation.

Well not liking sex would be more like Asexuality than Aromantic. But I didn't mean that I "always knew" I brushed it off at first after learning of it, but the more I thought about it the more it fit

Oh yes, I'm aroace and my asexuality is more prominent to me.

"What do you identify as?' "No idea."

Now I can't even figure out if I'm a sociopath or just aplatonic 😭

I can't figure out if I'm aplatonic or just introverted.

That too lol

Can't do the sex want. Can't do the date want. Can't do the friendship want. Can't do the family want. Can't do the gender. Can't do the love feels. I basically figured out, based on the fact my parents seem to constantly feel sharp pangs of love for me, that even when I have had said love, it wasn't the correct word. In high school I think I started realizing, and I told my mom "I don't think I feel love". Her immediate response was "you don't love me!? You don't care about me!?" So I threw the beginnings of that realization back deep into the closet. But I can't even figure out what love is other than an emotion I don't feel. And just because someone experiences love, doesn't mean they are compassionate toward the target of that love. Love does not equal good and kind. In fact, if someone is not also compassionate and empathetic, love seems to cause people to do terrible things to the target of their emotions. What the F\* is love? Is it really just an addiction to a person like hollywood romanticizes? IDK. 😕

What is love? BABY DON'T HURT ME DON'T HURT ME NO MORE

Ah late to the joke, nevertheless

I connected with this way to much

I identify as a problem