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Aplatonic Culture is...

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A blog dedicated to aplatonic experiences

Welcome to Aplatonic Culture is...

Inspired by @queercutlureis, @demiromantic-culture-is, @ace-culture-is, and the abundance of other related blogs, I have decided to make my own culture blog!

This blog is run by @fritz-is-bipolar, and my pronouns are they/them!

I highly recommend checking out @apl-culture-is, a blog very similar to this one!

Feel free to submit asks, as they are always open! I will also do my best to answer any questions anyone has! Apl-spec related questions can be submitted to this blog, and any other questions may be sent to my main!

Anonymous asked:

friending aplatonic culture is someone you've known since 7th grade asking you if you know what "aplatonic" is (and you, having known you were apl since sophomore year of high school, saying yes), and them coming out as demiplatonic

and after some discussion, you ask "so, knowing all this, do you want to be friends?"

AND THEY SAID YES!!! AAAAAA

quite literally the one person now who i actually, genuinely consider a friend instead of just saying "yeah sure we're friends" because i feel like i'm forced to or else people will think i'm an asshole when i just. don't feel the connection at all.

:D

Aplatonic culture is not knowing it's apparently rude to not want to be someone's friend until you start setting boundaries.

For context, I said we can't be friends because:

- It would be unfair for them to put in effort and not get it back because I'm either not interested or unable to.

- They'd already tried to cross my boundaries countless times and then got defensive about it

- They outed themselves multiple times that they wanted to be friends “so we can become something more later on", which I told them I wasn't interested in either (aroace and in a relationship)

Then they proceeded to call me “gross" and “repulsive" one day, then came back the next day like they didn't say anything.

Yeah, interacting with people is fun 😃

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Yeah, I'll never understand the social expectation of being friends with people who you just talk to (or are flat out rude and don't care about you). Like if you interact with somebody you are expected to be their 'friend,' and its rude to say you aren't friends because???

Sometimes people suck, sometimes I just don't want friends. Why is that such a concept to people?

Anonymous asked:

So, I just found out about the demiplatonic label through one of your posts.

Kinda a long rant here but, I mean, I remember when in middle school I first met a kid and we hung out for a bit, and she seemed cool until she just started announcing me to other people as her friend and... I was just kinda turned off by that? It's not like I disliked her, but I barely knew her. After that being around her felt awkward for some time before we eventually got back to hanging out a bit. But would that make me deniplatonic or was I just put into a weird position? I mean, all of the people I've ever wanted to be friends with are people I've had to hangout with for a few times before I became attached. Crap, I didn't even know aplatonic was apparently a spectrum, the only mention I've seen of one prior to today was a sort of answer to an example question that went along the lines of "I'm not aplatonic but my platonic attraction is exclusive to (xyz)" which the response was along the lines of "Don't even start. If you're going to use a label, use alloplatonic," so I just straight up thought it was an offensive thing towards aplatonic people to suggest.

You very well could be demiplatonic, it's up to you and how you decide to identify :)

And it's not offensive at all, aplatonic is a broad label and similar to other aspec identities, is absolutely a spectrum and is soley determined by the user of the label for themselves. Those who only experience platonic attraction to certain genders are absolutely apl-spec (if they so choose to use this label) and nobody else gets to make that call.

Additionally, those who actually support aplatonic individuals would not try to draw all these rigid lines around us. Much like with other queer labels, we will have complicated and varying experiences with the same concept, and identify ourselves with labels in a way that make sense to us.

On that note, this blog supports m-spec monos, gaybians, straightbians and turihets, lesboys and turigirls, and other queer identities which are often deemed controversial. Being queer has never been about these rigid lines that are enforced by other people. I would trust an allocishet who is trying their best to be an ally (and sometimes gets it wrong) way more than another queer person that decides to police the labels of other queer people for the sake of purity or whatever they want to call it.

Anonymous asked:

Aplatonic culture is not knowing whether or not you are platonic favorable or platonic indifferent, because you do have friends that you like, but you don't know how you'd feel about making friends if you didn't have this friend group.

(and the idea of other non-friends in your life calling you their friend makes you uncomfy af!!)

Same boat here!

Anonymous asked:

Aplatonic (spectrum) culture is telling your friend that your aplspec & his responce is "wait so are we not friends?" & that just hurt a lil but i think he knows were friends ;] (He dosn't have many friends & I have exactly 4 ppl I consider friends, him included)

Yeahhh, exactly why I'm a bit nervous to tell my friends. I'm sure they understand, anon!

Anonymous asked:

Demiplationic culture is trying to have more friends, finding someone that you vibe with, but being weirded out your longtime friend automatically refer the new person as your friend. Excuse me, it took me 3 years to form platonic attraction to you, how do you expect me to immediately see them as my friend? Seems like uncomfortable speed dating.

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