Incredible Aromantic Moments (other romantic orientations invited)

[Radio]

There is not a worse conversation to be had than the one where your friends are talking about their dream dates.

 

Because they're talking about Niagra Falls with their significant others and I'm sitting here imagining how amazing eating a whole cheese pizza by myself would be.

[AniGirl425]

In health class, we were going over relationships (in general as well as romantic/sexual relationships) and that day, we were learning about romantic relationships.  So my teacher had us do these activities for fun that were like "What do you look for in a partner" or "Describe your perfect date".  The entire time was awful because I had no preference and would rather not have anything to do with being romantically involved with a person.

[nerdperson777]

1 hour ago, Radio said:

There is not a worse conversation to be had than the one where your friends are talking about their dream dates.

 

Because they're talking about Niagra Falls with their significant others and I'm sitting here imagining how amazing eating a whole cheese pizza by myself would be.

Probably mentioned this in ace moments.  In 12th grade, the teacher had this activity where we shared how we saw our future was.  This teacher acted more like a friend than a teacher to the students so there were these girls that just had fun with the topic instead.  One girl said that she wanted to marry a hot sports player.  Teacher said the hot ones were in soccer.  Another girl said that she was going to have a football player for a husband, a doctorate in sociology, and 5 kids before the age of 30.

Me?  I said a master's degree in engineering, an $80k/year salary, 2 dogs, 2 cats, and the best gaming computer ever.

[waddiwasi]

21 minutes ago, nerdperson777 said:

Another girl said that she was going to have a football player for a husband, a doctorate in sociology, and 5 kids before the age of 30.

Nevermind the football player, but the rest would be seriously impressing, haha.

 

22 minutes ago, nerdperson777 said:

I said a master's degree in engineering, an $80k/year salary, 2 dogs, 2 cats, and the best gaming computer ever.

Huh, I remember that I once told my friends I wanted a horse, two dogs and three cats in the future. I do still want a horse and a cat...

[nerdperson777]

2 minutes ago, waddiwasi said:

Nevermind the football player, but the rest would be seriously impressing, haha.

Oh I forgot the teacher's input.  "How are you going to pay off that degree?"  The husband can just write a check.

[Laplace]

9 hours ago, nerdperson777 said:

Probably mentioned this in ace moments.  In 12th grade, the teacher had this activity where we shared how we saw our future was.  This teacher acted more like a friend than a teacher to the students so there were these girls that just had fun with the topic instead.  One girl said that she wanted to marry a hot sports player.  Teacher said the hot ones were in soccer.  Another girl said that she was going to have a football player for a husband, a doctorate in sociology, and 5 kids before the age of 30.

Me?  I said a master's degree in engineering, an $80k/year salary, 2 dogs, 2 cats, and the best gaming computer ever.

Now that you mention it, I’m pretty sure I did a similar activity sometime in school (writing about our futures seems familiar). Knowing me, I wrote about practical stuff like having a nice bed, owning every video game console, owning a good computer, and having the money to each nice food. Or some smartass comment about how I’d reign supreme as the overlord of the world.

 

And damn, 5 kids before 30?! That woman better have a big name athlete for a husband as well as an amazing career because she ain’t gonna cover those expenses on a pedestrian salary. My parents would be aghast at me having more than 1-2 kids (heck my dad often joking advises me never to have kids) cause it’s so difficult and stressful to basically be completely responsible for someone’s wellbeing for 18ish years. 

[snapesonalane]

Went on a class trip to an engineering convention we had been preparing for all semester. There was a fancy dinner the night before all the convention/presentations were going to take place. 

This boy who I knew had been into me since early in the semester (not because I could tell but because his buddies kept telling me to embarrass him) asks me to smoke a joint with him after the dinner. Mind you I don't smoke weed anymore but back then I would not have said no to pot because: pot. 

So we go outside, get high, go back to the hotel and he asks me to hang out in his room. He gets on the bed, motions his arm as if to say, come cuddle with me. And I said, "no thanks I'll sit on the arm chair." I then proceeded to take out the next days presentations schedule and underline all the ones I was interested in seeing  while he made googly eyes at me. I literally got more excited about black holes than about being alone with a boy.

 

I also suspect he asked the guy he was sharing the room with to leave so I could be there out of less pure intentions as well. Joke was on him cuz I'm also ace 😂

 

Same guy also tried to hold my hand "to steady it" while I was sautering some sensors to a tiny little circuit board. I said, "do you mind, I'm trying to do this right." Poor boy never had a chance. 

[Beaver Boy]

On 5/29/2018 at 11:33 PM, Rosoideae said:

This is the kind of thing we all just kind of forgot about 😂

I love you so much, let me just put my tongue in your mouth and slosh it around.

[waddiwasi]

11 hours ago, Beaver Boy said:

I love you so much, let me just put my tongue in your mouth and slosh it around.

Way to ruin my lunch 🤣

[nerdperson777]

6 hours ago, waddiwasi said:

Way to ruin my lunch 🤣

Meanwhile my mom has no qualms talking about excretion during lunch.

[waddiwasi]

On 6/5/2018 at 8:11 PM, nerdperson777 said:

Meanwhile my mom has no qualms talking about excretion during lunch.

Ironically, I don't mind that either. Excretion, inner organs, blood and gore - all cool. I think the main reason is that the tongue goes into the mouth... Where I also put my food. Meh. 

[nerdperson777]

10 hours ago, waddiwasi said:

Ironically, I don't mind that either. Excretion, inner organs, blood and gore - all cool. I think the main reason is that the tongue goes into the mouth... Where I also put my food. Meh. 

My mom can talk about anything.  Once my dad was out for lunch with his friends so mom and I went to pizza with my cousin.  The conversation was about how we could hear porn sounds coming from his room.  He might have the door wide open.  He doesn't use headphones so that we could hear it from outside his room.  I don't understand why we had this conversation while I just wanted to eat my pizza.

[Celyn: The Lutening]

Watching The Chase, one of the contestants says he gave up chips for a year. The chaser replied that he hadn't had a date in a year. Everyone teased him and it took me ages to realise that he was talking about romantic dates, not the fruit.

 

I'm not even aro, just...romance is a much lower priority for me than it seems to be for everyone else.

[snapesonalane]

1 hour ago, Celyn said:

The chaser replied that he hadn't had a date in a year. Everyone teased him and it took me ages to realise that he was talking about romantic dates, not the fruit.

This is the funniest thing I've read all day 😂😂

[StormySky]

On 6/1/2018 at 2:22 PM, AniGirl425 said:

In health class, we were going over relationships (in general as well as romantic/sexual relationships) and that day, we were learning about romantic relationships.  So my teacher had us do these activities for fun that were like "What do you look for in a partner" or "Describe your perfect date".  The entire time was awful because I had no preference and would rather not have anything to do with being romantically involved with a person.

Ugh, I'm taking an online class as an aro ace and I actually have a reason for my stalling and procrastination.

"What do you look for in a partner?" Someone who will leave me alone and not smooch me

"Describe your perfect date"

Non-existant

 

You just gotta come up with clever answers

[Celyn: The Lutening]

"Describe your perfect date."

Medjool

[Amelys]

Finding out you went on a date with someone two weeks after said date...

And this happened twice, 

 

[snapesonalane]

@Amelys truly what an aro icon 

[Amelys]

@snapesonalane *takes a bow* Why thank you, I do try.

[soda59]

On 6/3/2018 at 5:54 AM, snapesonalane said:

Went on a class trip to an engineering convention we had been preparing for all semester. There was a fancy dinner the night before all the convention/presentations were going to take place. 

This boy who I knew had been into me since early in the semester (not because I could tell but because his buddies kept telling me to embarrass him) asks me to smoke a joint with him after the dinner. Mind you I don't smoke weed anymore but back then I would not have said no to pot because: pot. 

So we go outside, get high, go back to the hotel and he asks me to hang out in his room. He gets on the bed, motions his arm as if to say, come cuddle with me. And I said, "no thanks I'll sit on the arm chair." I then proceeded to take out the next days presentations schedule and underline all the ones I was interested in seeing  while he made googly eyes at me. I literally got more excited about black holes than about being alone with a boy.

 

I also suspect he asked the guy he was sharing the room with to leave so I could be there out of less pure intentions as well. Joke was on him cuz I'm also ace 😂

 

Same guy also tried to hold my hand "to steady it" while I was sautering some sensors to a tiny little circuit board. I said, "do you mind, I'm trying to do this right." Poor boy never had a chance. 

When I was younger I kind of put myself in possibly dangerous situations because I didn't realize that the guy had intentions other than just wanting to be my friend. I was really ignorant and oblivious, and just overall undermined how much certain people crave contact, but I am lucky to have gotten out pretty unscathed.  Sorry not a real funny story, but just something that I have had to learn.

[MasteringTheArt]

I was in a store yesterday and they were selling underwear with shirtless models in the picture and I proceeded to tell my sisters how men's abs remind me of the outer part of a certain bug that I couldn't remember the name of..

Honestly does anyone know what I'm talking about or is it just me? 😂

[nerdperson777]

55 minutes ago, MasteringTheArt said:

I was in a store yesterday and they were selling underwear with shirtless models in the picture and I proceeded to tell my sisters how men's abs remind me of the outer part of a certain bug that I couldn't remember the name of..

Honestly does anyone know what I'm talking about or is it just me? 😂

It might be the ancient trilobyte.  Although that's like 100 pairs of abs, not just 6.

 

This conversation about shopping reminded me of a pic my friend sent me.  There were the mannequins modeling the clothes, but in weird poses.  A caption someone put for it was "I totally want to see how I look doing a back flip!"  One of the models was kind of suspended in the air with an arched back.

[snapesonalane]

1 hour ago, spazzticsoda said:

When I was younger I kind of put myself in possibly dangerous situations because I didn't realize that the guy had intentions other than just wanting to be my friend. I was really ignorant and oblivious, and just overall undermined how much certain people crave contact, but I am lucky to have gotten out pretty unscathed.  Sorry not a real funny story, but just something that I have had to learn.

Oh my story could have ended really badly if that boy had had entirely different intentions. I do think for the most part he just wanted to spend time with me, but I also think it was foolish of me to go alone into someones room when I wasn't sober and also when I had no romantic or sexual intentions myself. 

[nerdperson777]

I guess my gay co-worker is really allo-normative.  He was on the phone, which I presume, is our supervisor.  He said that he can't stay late because he's having date night.  I thought I'd make a conversation by saying that I thought it was hard to have a date night on a weekday.  The only person in my family with known date nights is my aunt.  Every Saturday night, she goes to visit a male friend, which no one knows if this is a best friend, boyfriend, or what.  So he asked what about me.  I kinda came out, kinda didn't.  I said that I'm not interested in people.  "What happens when you get old?"  "I'll just have pets."  "Yeah, but that's not the same.  I knew someone who was like that and now she has three kids."  "I said I didn't want kids when I was ten, but now my parents are actually afraid.  Should've believed me the first time."

[soda59]

On 6/13/2018 at 8:35 PM, MasteringTheArt said:

I was in a store yesterday and they were selling underwear with shirtless models in the picture and I proceeded to tell my sisters how men's abs remind me of the outer part of a certain bug that I couldn't remember the name of..

Honestly does anyone know what I'm talking about or is it just me? 😂

Nipples look like pepperonis hahahah

[MasteringTheArt]

2 hours ago, spazzticsoda said:

Nipples look like pepperonis hahahah

Oh yeah 😂😂

[nerdperson777]

Is the reason why I wasn't really into Disney movies that I'm aro?  I could not pay attention to all those romances.  The only two I liked were Mulan (masquerading as a man?  heck yeah!) and Tarzan (main character isn't a girl even if there is romance).

[MasteringTheArt]

12 hours ago, nerdperson777 said:

Is the reason why I wasn't really into Disney movies that I'm aro?  I could not pay attention to all those romances.  The only two I liked were Mulan (masquerading as a man?  heck yeah!) and Tarzan (main character isn't a girl even if there is romance).

Probably two of my favorites. As a little girl I wanted to be Tarzan very badly 😂

[nerdperson777]

7 hours ago, MasteringTheArt said:

Probably two of my favorites. As a little girl I wanted to be Tarzan very badly 😂

I liked being shirtless and beating my chest.

[MasteringTheArt]

21 hours ago, nerdperson777 said:

I liked being shirtless and beating my chest.

Well who doesn't lol 😂