If You Aren't Just A Tiny Bit In Love With Your Friends Then Idk You Might Be Doing Something Wrong

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

aro culture is wishing someone would prioritize you in the way romantic partners are prioritized

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It's always "aros can still date!" "aros can still be in (any type of non-romantic or romantic) relationships!" "aros aren't heartless!" "aros can still love in different ways!"

Well, sure, you do you.

But not all of us. A lot of us are *completely* non-partnering. There's loveless aros. Aplatonic aros. Hell, even heartless is a label some aros use!

We don’t need to do anything to "replace" the romantic relationships we don’t have. People can be completely happy alone! Without a partner! (Shocking, I know!)

I'm just a bit tired of all the amatonormativity I still see under some of the trending aro-positivity posts...

FRUiTS issue 16, 1998!

girl with naturally clear skin will never understand how annoying it is to have acne. how it fucking hurts to buy a ton of products but still wake up with the same ugly skin that ppl blame u for. like obviously i tried washing my skin, i tried all the acne products i could, i hate how my family always reminds me of it, as soon as i feel confident they just have to tell me that i should stop doing this or that as if i hadn't tried it already

To those who have bad relationships with their mother, who feel lost, who feel ugly or not enough, who feel like making friends is the hardest thing ever:

I see you! And you deserve to be fully appreciated and loved.

Do not give up on yourself because you're here for you! This is your life, you matter and your happiness matters! Reaching for help isn't bothersome, it's beautiful and needed.

you love so easily, you see a way to love everyone and I think that's amazing but somehow that's so bitter, because you love everyone maybe loving me isn't special

because the og post had reblog bait and really doesnt help people with ocd:

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Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743

Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438

Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673

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Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

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If you ever want to talk: My tumblr ask is always open.

if you aren't just a tiny bit in love with your friends then idk you might be doing something wrong

Don’t go wasting your emotion Lay all your love on me