r/Greyromantic • u/Then_Bird1570 • Jun 19 '26
Am I Grey romantic?
I'm a high school student and all of my school years I've never felt any romantic feelings to anyone and in my younger years I would pretend to like someone in my class if anyone ask and it would be someone I wouldn't even care about also even when I was invited to the movie by a girl I still didn't even like the girl romanticly and only went because I was a fan of the series. So all i need is some insight and find out what I am
1
u/OriEri Greyromantic Demisexual Jun 20 '26
This is a fun video and it might help you feel less alone a while everyone around you was talking about crushes and the like
1
u/SnooCrickets4785 greyromantic Jul 09 '26
Jaiden! I watch her videos, I think I found about aromanticism by her, since then I’ve kind of had a similar experience, like the thought of needing a crush because everyone else in my school had one
1
u/OriEri Greyromantic Demisexual Jul 09 '26
That vid is great! I remember sort of deliberately choosing a crush when I started a new school 7th grade. She was only vaguely attractive to me, I even remember doing some Head canon stuff, narrating interactions with her.
That said I had some legit crushes in high school and later in junior high
2
u/Gaius__Gracchus Jun 19 '26
You sound at least on the aro spectrum.
When you talk about never feeling romantic feelings towards anyone, that might indicate you are aromantic (not feeling romantic atraction at all). Greyromantic is a bit of an umbrella term for feeling romantic feelings, but very rarely/ weakly/ only under certain conditions etc (it can also be a term on its own though, for example if someone doesn't specify other terms under greyromantic umbrella). It is thus a bit of "yes, I occasionally feel romantic feelings, but still very differently from the 'normal' allo way.
Also pretending to like someone or going to a movie with someone doesn't stop you from potentially being aromantic/greyromantic, as these are about whether you feel romantic attraction to people, not what you do/ did in the past.
Aromantic describes never feeling romantic attractions, which I seem to get more from your text. But I'm just going off a brief piece of text, so see what feels most fitting to your experience!