Yeahh I might not be aro. Help me out LGBTQ community :[. Been a while since I posted anything here

So some of y’all know I’m aroace, but recently I’ve started having feelings on and off for 2 certain people one irl and one online, and sometimes I think I actually have a crush and other times I feel like I was just imagining things and that I wasn’t actually in love. So yeah what do I do? help me out pls. :(

I mean aren't aroace people able to feel a little bit of attraction towards people? I'm still learning, so please don't get mad, but why do we feel the need to have categories for all the different ways people feel attraction? The way we feel attracted to people over time fluctuates, so do we really need to label ourselves? Sure there's that sense of belonging, but it's all getting a little complicated.

Aroace is when a person has no romantic or sexual attraction to people. That question on the multiple categories should be asked for more experienced LGBTQ people as I honestly don’t know how to explain it ._.

Oh, ok, my only experience with aroace is Jaidenanimation's video so that's probably why I'm confused

you might be grayromantic, that is when you feel fluctuating attraction, but mostly aro.

you could also be demiromantic, where you don't feel romantic attraction until you get close to
someone.

or maybe it could be a squish, which is basically a platonic crush. same thing as a crush, but you dont want to do romance stuff like kissing, but you still get excited to be around them and really want to be their friend.

You also might be Oriented Aroace, which is what I am. I don't feel any sort of romantic or sexual attraction, but I have a different, tertiary form of attraction where i like girls, but not in a romo/sex way, if that makes sense...

Those are a few orientations on the Aromantic Spectrum, there are many more. I hope this was helpful! Let me know if you need any more help about Aro stuff lol, I'm the master.

I could be a mix of many on the aro spectrum because I noticed a lot of things that relate to me in different romantic orientations

Probably not oriented aroace since I’m stil definitely ace

I did remember I had one ex-boyfriend where I had a platonic relationship but broke up

MAYBE demiromantic since those 2 crushes I known them for a while one being 3+ years and the other for 2 years but I think it’s a lil too short

yeah maybe it’s grayromantic but I’m not sure…

(And sometimes I feel attracted to fictional characters like my own ocs sometimes ._.)

(Don’t we all?)

(wait you also feel attracted to fictional characters?

I almost thought I’d be ridiculed for being childish or something)

(I mean, only sometimes, y’know? It depends)

(yeah, probably depends)

(Who specifically?)

(You know who it is

It ALLL STARTED when I put that suit on him)

(Jasper?)

Iiiiit's Jasper :]

*nodding shamefully*

Wait, question, do you have a crush on one of my characters?

no

I don’t know them that well unless it’s a character I made/from a fandom I know very well

Okay