#squishes

[tremendously-crazy]

Pov: You've never had a good, proper friendship before, so the moment you have one with a boy, you convince yourself that you like him, and then you do all the things people do when they like someone, (complimenting them, trying to spend time with them, talking to them, thinking about them 24/7), only for things to get stressful and anxiety enducing when you both confess to each other because you don't REALLY know what its like to love/like someone romantically and everything he does grosses you out and now you're just texting him for hours but he won't even look at you in real life and LOOK NEW HYPERFIXATION!! GOODBYE KID MY NEW LOVE IS SHERLOCK HOLMES

[midnight-soulless-system]

Just told my friend we had a squish on her, but it wasn't a crush because we're aroace and she was like. "Cool, and same on both fronts"

I'm so fucking happy y'all, is this what the allos feel when someone else reciprocates a crush? Cause this is fucking awesome.

[vee-lociraptor]

being aro and having platonic crushes is so embarrassing like. yeah i wanna be your stupid friend or whatever. kicks a rock like an idiot.

[cr0wqui11]

I hate having squishes bc it’s like oh this is fun and whimsical oh no my grades

[crowdrinkingcoffee]

help i’ve never had a squish before this is fucking weird why do i suddenly crave affection

[dailyjadenep]

[nightmarereverie]

[officeobject]

12 year old me: ARE YA SEDUCING, FUTURE M -

Current me: OH MY GOD I CAN'T STOP BEING FLUSTERED BECAUSE I HAVE A SQUISH ON THIS ONE BLOG I BARELY READ CONTENT FROM WHO IS PRO-LGBT+ , ANTI-TRUMP, ANTI-ABLEISM, WROTE A LITTLE RANT ABOUT AGEISM ONCE, IS AN ADULT WHO IS 30 OR ALMOST 30, DOESN'T POST NSFW, AND SAID THAT MINORS ARE THEREFORE WELCOME TO INTERACT, AND NOW I WANNA BE CLINGY AND LEAN AGAINST THEIR ARM AND PLATONICALLY "RIZZ" THEM UP!

(Anyways, please tell younger-me that no, it doesn't get better - it might even get WORSE - as in, platonic hormone-wise ... to be honest I kinda don't WANT it to get better - this is who I am and is fun and all, BUT STILL)!

[tumbytoesucker]

acne prone leo valdez my favorite❤️❤️❤️🤤

m mwah hahahah

[spiritmander13]

New thing we should normalize: SQUISHES.

Squishes are basically aromantic crushes! An intense desire for friendship with someone! Enough of people assuming the person I'm thinking about is my crush, no, they're just my buddy who's the opposite gender of me (not in a cishet way; I'm Pangender and my squish is Agender).

But yeah, why haven't we normalized squishes and platonic soulmates already? Don't get me wrong, romance sounds lovely and sweet, but sometimes you gotta have diversity.

[journal-of-a-local-corvid]

W said they didn’t have a squish on me. I’m going to bury myself in this hole now 💔

[aroaceconfessions]

gonna give up on telling anyone who isn't apsec about my squishes. can't fucking trust anyone anymore to just shut up and believe me. I'm sick of being treated as if I'm delusional or stuck in that stupid trope of "person insists it's just platonic but later realises they're in love romantically".

I'm a human being, not a character from some fiction story.

I know what I feel. I spent years questioning it, I don't need my own friends to start fucking questioning me too.

fuck arophobes.

Submitted April 16, 2023

[mani-mari]

omg having a squish is weird bc i feel so open about it but im like ! huh?? this is how I act for my crushes. I really love this person's vibe & want to be their friend but am I being too weird? like idc because they dont seem to mind but ..!! am I being inappropriate? why is our hug awkward? im not attracted to them the way im used to being attracted but that's fine?

like this is my first squish at least in a long time and its so WEIRD. I like it but it feels strange but it feels fine? what is happening.

[cr0wqui11]

Me watching the allos experience squishes but not know the word for it 😈😈😈

[viktheviking1]

Everybody needs a person who they can make an absolute fool of themsleves in front of, have an awkward pause, only for them to do something even weirder.

[fallenrain40]

random aro thoughts again,, i really love the term for friend crushes- "squishes". my only problem is being afraid people will interpret it as an "inbetween" romance and friendship when no... for me it's not even queerplatonic or anything like that... it's literally just wanting to know someone and thinking they are cool, or maybe admiring them in some other form. but no level of romantic attraction is ever involved and i hate to think people will misinterpret that.

im almost afraid to even call it PLATONIC attraction cause... platonic can be really strong too. idk. its like some mysterious fourth option (just like my gender pfft-),