Hey, baby aros

raiseafuckingglass:

I know how you’re feeling now.

I know the panic of knowing you’ll never fall in love. (Or the panic of knowing it’ll be really unlikely). I know how it feels to be expecting something your whole life and then realize that you can’t have it or can’t have it as easily as other people seem to. I know the panic of thinking there’s something wrong with you, something broken, something that should be there and isn’t. I know.

I know the relief that comes with it. I know the feeling of finally understanding why you never quite understood, of knowing why you always felt that alway about romance. I know the relief that comes with understanding and trying to accepting. I know.

So let me tell you this: It’s hard.

It’s hard because you’ll have to tell yourself that there’s nothing wrong, nothing broken, and you’ll have to tell yourself that again and again because people will tell you that you are. There will be romance all around you. There will be everyone falls in love and love is what makes us human and you’ll have to try really hard to not believe that.

Believe me. I know.

There’ll be days where telling yourself that won’t be enough. There’ll be days in which you’ll realize your brothers and sisters and siblings in the LGBT community don’t always support us the way they should or even believe us. There will be times in which it’ll feel like there is no happy ending for you, like you’ll live completely alone.

You won’t. I promise you. It gets better.

We’ve got you. We, the aro community, we got you. You’re not broken. There’s nothing wrong with you, there’s nothing wrong with us. You are fine just the way you are.

And there’ll be those days, yes, but they’ll get less and less frequent. And we’ll be here for you.

We’re building a community here. We’re building a family. You are all my sisters and brothers and siblings. We’re building the foundations so the next generation won’t have to feel as broken.

I’ve got you. I’m trusting you to get me too.

Welcome to the community. You can always talk to me. I’ll understand. I’ll at least try to.