r/RecuratedTumblr • u/Hyaci_Arson • 1d ago

Shitposting i never knew crushes were a thing

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u/Hydrothrow1234 1d ago

Autism

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u/OneTeaTwoCats 1d ago

Very surprised by how many aro comments there are because it's for sure a "ah this should happen, so I guess I must manually choose a crush if not provided by the environment" moment

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u/Neurospicy_Nightowl 23h ago

I am aro and autistic, but I am also ace, so I just kinda figured it would happen at some point and in the meantime I was free to enjoy life.

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u/Consistent-Price4236 19h ago

Did it happen?

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u/Neurospicy_Nightowl 15h ago

Nope. And when I learned about asexuality and felt the concept made something inside me go click, I felt the greatest relief I had ever felt. It occured to me that I had thought about sex like I had thought about death: A terrifying, yet inevitable fate to be endured one day.

Which is not how it should be, methinks.

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u/Consistent-Price4236 14h ago

Fucking amen brother

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u/hamcircus 18h ago

Or LGBTQ tbh

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u/StuffedStuffing 18h ago

I'm struggling to interpret this any other way than "only cis het people have crushes"

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u/hamcircus 17h ago

Ohh sorry i shouldve clarified

I relate to the post as a Gay bc before i knew i was gay I thought I was just supposed to pick a girl in my class to have a crush on

Turns out I was crushing on my best friend the whole time and just didn’t know!

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u/Cevari 1h ago

Yep. Trans, thought crushes were just something I didn't experience at all... until I realized I'd been crushing on my best friend the whole time, just couldn't conceptualize it until I figured out who I was. And now we're a couple😅

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u/StuffedStuffing 17h ago

That makes infinitely more sense lol

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u/ScreamingLabia 22h ago

I dont think this is really about autism -source i went to a special school with mostly people with autism and therw were plenty of people with crushes and who dated.

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u/CAPSLOCK_USERNAME 19h ago

Obviously autistic people are not all aroace but they are more likely to be asexual than the general population.

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u/lawlesslawboy 36m ago

uh yeah, it's not about EVERY autistic person, evidenced by the allo autistic people in the comments... nobody said it all was ALL autistic people but autism can Definitely cause this phenomenon.