April 2019 Roundup: Coming Out and/or Being Out As Aromantic Spectrum

The April 2019 Carnival of Aros was hosted by Aromantic Ruminations, on the topic of Coming Out and/ or Being Out as Aromantic Spectrum.

Unfortunately, they were unable to create a wrap-up post at the end of the month, so we’ll be doing our best to gather up all those entries here. If you wrote or have seen any entries not yet on this list, please let us know! I unfortunately do not have access to any links that were emailed to ask-an-aro, so this list is mostly based on anything that was publically tagged. We will continue to update it if we stumble across any additional entries.

• Techno-Trashcan writes about the grey spaces between being out and not being out.
• Mesotablar reimagines their coming out story as a fairytale.
• Aro-Neir-O talks about coming out implicitly rather than explicitly.
• SoulRiser comments that coming out to people (especially offline) can be hard work because it requires so much explaining.
• luvtheheaven muses about the confusing grey areas of aromantic identity, their desire for queerplatonic relationship, and a few other scattered thoughts.
• Aro Magni shares their experiences of coming out many times over the years, and contrasts coming out as asexual vs. coming out as aro.
• aromanticrey explains why sometimes, they often don’t come out.
• Grzanka explains being selectively and sneakily out
• Alex compares coming out as aro, gray-ro, pan, and nonbinary.
• Sara K. writes about how coming out as aro often takes more effort than they want to give.

(Also, if you are listed here and would like to suggest a different summary for your post, please feel free!)