bohofien: “Masks.”- Shel Silverstein True story: I found out that two of my classmates w
bohofien: “Masks.”- Shel Silverstein True story: I found out that two of my classmates were asexual, making it three (one gray, one aro-ace, and one me) out of twelve in a class I had decided early on I was not going to come out in (it was a creative writing thing, so whether to write about asexuality when everyone else would be reading it was actually something I had to think about). The first ace I found out about because I had a comic signed by Gail Simone with an asexual character in it, and I was toting it around to show to EVERY LIVING BEING the day after I obtained it, along with an explanation of exactly why it was the best thing ever (ace two wasn’t in the room while I was explaining why I was petting a comic book: it was something like twenty minutes before class was due to start). The second I found out about because she wrote a poem about aromanticism, and hid it in the possibility that it was a really weird poem about snow. Naturally, I was all “holy shit, this is about AROMANTICISM!” (I was shocked and delighted). I brought it up as one possible interpretation when I just couldn’t take it any more, and I was then asked to elaborate on my theory, line by line, for the whole class–ruining my plan to not come out any further, but solidifying my poem analysis-cred.tldr: ¼th of my class is ace and we’re all surprised because none of us had planned on mentioning it. -- source link
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