THIS EXPLAINS A LOT!! Reacting to "Being Not Straight" by Jaiden Animations!
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The main people who were mad at Jaiden seemed to be the people who either didn't understand, or who thought they had a chance with her for some reason and now they know that they don't. They also ship her with a lot of other TH-camrs (most commonly TheOdd1sOut) and now that doesn't really work. It's completely ridiculous and immature, but what are you gonna do? People are gonna act that way.
But yeah, love the Jaiden reactions and hope to see a lot more of them in the future!
It makes sense now.
being mad for those reasons is sad
or they're just generally xenophobic
Love Jaiden as a person I’m happy she came to that self discovery and she’s happy
See, this is why you don't ship real people with others. It's one thing to do that with fictional characters, but you can't control how real people live their lives. And even with fictional characters, it's not like every single creator out there is going to bend over backwards and fulfill your head canon.
My teachers in middle school :
"You will start to feel frisky and that is OK. "
Me: "Huh. So I just have to wait for the frisky to kick in? OK."
*10 years later*
"I'm still waiting....
It kinda feels like an unintentional scam from society
I’m so glad you reacted to this. When I first saw the video, it helped me affirm my asexuality, and it makes me happy to see people enjoy the video, especially with how many people are hating her for coming out.
Miserable people really like making other people miserable
@@theduckgoesmoo How dare you, I'm miserable but I like when people are happy
My comrade let us enjoy our garlic bread together with Jaiden as we laugh at those who will not be invading a small Scandinavian country with us
Agreed
Ase'd it!
Meanwhile i'm an Aro-plane :V
Before the term "Asexual" was coined, people of whom we would now describe as asexual would refer to themself as "bisexual" (or the much older words "Unisex" or "Horatian") essentially under the same logic Jaiden uses in this video, 0 attraction to men is equal to 0 attraction to women, and therefore they must be bisexual
My experience wasn't exactly the same as Jaiden's obviously, but so much of this video was so relatable. Arbitrarily choosing someone to have a "crush" on because it feels like you HAVE to. Thinking that I was bi for awhile because what gender someone was didn't mean anything to me. The utter shock I felt when I finally realized that when people gush about romance and attraction they AREN'T JOKING. This video would have meant a lot to me if I'd seen it when I was younger and it still means a lot to me now. Watching it for the first time really made me emotional
This video makes me feel indifferent yet supportive.
I'm heterosexual however I support Jaiden's aero-asexuality.
The only people who I can assume were upset are people who were too braindead to understand (even though she explained it very well enough for someone like myself to catch on) and the sickos who shipped her with another animation TH-cam channel and drew very adult art of her character.
The hate for Jaiden after this videos release was completely unnecessary.
But I'm glad you're watching it and understanding her.
Ok while i love and completely agree with your attitude, i was sent reeling with laughter when i read aero-asexuality. That's not how you express or spell that, lol! It's aroace, a conjunction of aro (short for aromantic) and ace (short for asexual). Aeroace sounds more like a pokemon move, kinda like aerial-ace.
@@joda7697 Or that when someone displays the slightest amount of romantic or s##ual attraction near you, you launch yourself into the air and land several miles away.
(Yes this was an OT reference)
@@joda7697 aeroplane
@@joda7697 Or like an ace pilot like Ace Combat, Top Gun or Star Wars: Squadrons!
I remember the day that video dropped.
The amount of people freshly realizing this might apply to them, who flooded the aro discord server i'm on that day, it was kind of insane. I spent literally three hours helping people with stuff and realizing themselves, finding terms and dropping information. It was a lot, but i'm so happy i got to help people out with that.
I remember being on the Asexual and aromantic subreddits when this video dropped. It was so heartwarming to see so many people figuring themselves out with the help of this video. Absolutely phenomenal video.
I'm glad this video got a lot of attention. I'm Aro-Ace too - this video just helped me confirm that my experiences aren't unique, and that this is a thing someone can be. I had a lot of the same experiences as Jaiden did, you know, "selecting" a crush, not fully understanding what it means, feeling like there's something wrong with you, or that you're running out of time to obtain the cultural definition of "happiness," by finding romantic love. It's really a video that a lot of people need to see, especially teenagers that might not know what being Aro or Ace means, and that might not understand their lack of attraction. And for people who aren't Aro-Ace I think it provides a lot of perspective and lets you see that Aro-Ace people are still people, just people that challenge the popular conception of what it means to live "a good life" or what your relationships have to look like.
We're not sick, we're not traumatized, and we're not necessarily lonely just because we don't have a romantic love interest. We're just people that don't experience life the same way that a lot of people do, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Yeah, Jaiden's video was very helpful. I know I am Ace but seeing this video made me wonder if I am in the Aro spectrum. I've had crushes but had no interest in doing anything about it. like oh I like looking at this person and spending time with them..... ok that's all. I've never had an interest in having a romantic relationship. I was more interested in just having someone I get along with because I don't want to live alone. but a roommate could easily fill that position.
Yeah, like I've had people insist that I must be traumatized or have some hormonal imbalance just because I have no interest is sex and little interest in romance. Just let me be if it's not affecting you.
I've also seen people say Jaiden must be lonely and miserable because of this when she clearly states, "I'm having the time of my life," in the video
As someone on both of the spectrums, I completely agree. I'm pretty sure I'm demiromantic, so I have mistaken just wanting to be friends with someone for a crush SO many times, lol. Point of saying this is that even if someone is not on either of the spectrums, there will definitely be people who just... assume their feelings are romantic, because SOCIETY (lol) forces that idea so much. Personally I think platonic relationships with ppl are so amazing and one of the most important things in life!
Anyway, whoever you are reading this, have a great day. ✨
the fact people got mad at jaiden for making a video like this just shows people aren't ready to accept that not all rules of society must be used on each person
As a AAA battery, I completely understands everything Jaiden talked about. The only difference would be that while many aroace don't feel attraction and also don't want it, I DO want it. I want to be in a romantic and sexual relationship, I just never gotten a crush, or fallen in love, or looked at a person and thought "they are hot, I wouldn't mind sleeping with them".
I might also be a AAA Battery. At the least I know for sure I’m Agender and Asexual. I also want a romantic relationship but don’t have actual attraction. More my brain mistaking strong platonic feelings for romantic ones or trying to force them.
There’s a form of Aroromantic called Cupioromantic which is wanting a romantic relationship but cannot feel romantic attraction, that might be what you explained
I loved this video by Jaiden. I'm ace and demiromantic so it makes me feel less alone
everytime i hear the word demiromantic i imagen people that are attractet to demigods
@@profdrguenter1055 well hercules though 😳
@@helios_is_my_nameWell He did murder His wife and Child but that one was heras fault still He Tends to have rather murderery angerishues
@@profdrguenter1055 but he was hot
@@TheDigimonGuy people who watch serial Killer dokumenturies be like
I love this video. For a little while now I've been questioning being aro myself, so it was just really nice video to see.
I realise I've never once experienced any form of romantic attraction, no crushes or anything like that. Its weird because I think I'm conceptually interested in a relationship, but I've never once found someone attractive, even in times I've met someone I thought I'd consider attractive, but still no! No romantic attraction for you!
Seems like you might be then!
@@theduckgoesmoo ESTCF!!
That stands for the Top-LGBT-Coverage i know of and can recommend you warmly: Emma Thorne, Some More News, Telltale Fireside, Creaky Blinder and Forrest Valkai.
I've been questioning myself whether or not I was aroace (pretty much certain on the ace part, not sure with aro) since I never really feel sexually attracted to people (or at least I don't think I do), and I've only ever really felt what may've been romantic attraction towards one girl who was my friend, and I don't know if what I was feeling was actual attraction or just me mistaking platonic feelings towards her.
I think a lot of childhood bullying comes from children projecting their own feelings of inadequacy due to their parents' views on gender roles. We adults have to stop and think about all our judgmental comments and see exactly how much hate we teach the next generation via our own toxic outlook of life. Glad Jaiden was willing to share this about herself.
Not Aroace in the slightest, but I'm always happy when people become more aware of themselves and feel more confident in who they are because if it.
some asexuals: "i don't feel anything... something is wrong with me"
chad jaiden: "i don't feel anything... y'all are ugly"
I really respect Jaiden for going through with this video! Given how massive her audience is, it would inevitably lead to a lot of negative reception, but damn was this a fantastic video to watch and listen to! It was difficult for myself to admit and recognize my own queerness, but I eventually grew comfortable with myself to accept it! And for that, I thank Jaiden for also having that bravery!
Has she ever said what the analytics were for this video?
@@theduckgoesmoo no, but sorting the comments by new it doesn't take long to find hate comments, unfortunately. Not to mention the asinine reaction videos that have popped up with blatant aphobia, and some also with homo- and transphobia, which isn't even touched upon in Jaiden's video.
As someone who is sapiosexual and demisexual, it was great to see this video putting a light on things like this and encouraging research. Plus the amount of big youtubers showing her support and sharing some of their stories in figuring out their own shit.
Jaiden actually helped me come to terms that I’m acesexual so I’m glad u have reacted to it
I didn’t know what aro/ace was growing up. People in high school kept trying to get me to rank guys by attractiveness, and I kept giving ratings of 50% because I honestly felt nothing. Finally, a group of girls that bullied me (or at least tried because they were so low on my radar I didn’t even notice them for the most part) cornered me in an empty hallway and tried to force me to “admit” I’m gay. They finally dropped it when I just refused to because I just wasn’t attracted to girls either. I wish I knew about aro/ace then. It would have saved me a lot of confusion…
13:44 "Relationships are expensive"
Agreed, one of the reasons why I'm not that desperate to find someone
Only if you're a man 🤣
@@dustingaethje1332 not really, but men often choose to spend more money than needed indeed
It's cool to see someone with as much reach as her talk so openly about it. As someone who is aroace and nonbinary (my friends like to joke that I took one look at the world and decided "nope") it can be a little lonely being the only person like me that I know. Also, she's right. Most people really don't know what it is and it can be hard to answer with details when you're still discovering the intricacies yourself. I'm grateful that today's youth have someone like her to make them feel less alone.
Correction: People that are bigoted are mad about this video. People that are not narrow-minded dickheads are not mad about this video.
As I saw another person comment I feel a lot of the hate she got after this video (which I wasn't aware she got until you sId something on it) is from people making NSFW content, shipping her with other creators or have an internet crush on her and took it personally that they were confronted with never having a chance with someone they likely have never actually met or met her at a convention once. It is saddening to see such an amazing story teller who took a stand to spread awareness catching hate for it.
Honestly, this is truly one of my favorite videos on TH-cam just in general.
I watched this when I was 11 and it helped me so much! Ty Jaiden! You made me understand my life Ty so much!
Yay! I'm so happy you reached to this one!
I'm aroace and when I saw jaiden made a video on the topic I felt so connected. I didn't realize my orientation until highschool when some classmates made a big deal when I told them that I never developed crushes on anyone. My sister told me and my childhood made a lot more sense then. But I still felt on the outside, subconsciously the rest of my life was pretty chill. But when I saw this video I was so happy to see that I wasn't the only one who didn't get crushed or attracted to 'hot' people, and even she thought of relationships in a logical way I did some middle school! Again this video makes me so happy and comfortable 😊
“Why do people think I’m not straight?”
My guess: It’s the soccer (gay or European?) and the rainbow of vitamin waters. Makes you seem a little like a sporty bi-guy.
New to his channel, but even watching the few videos I have of his, I get bi-jock energy from him. Not sure exactly why, but something about him just gives that energy.
A lot of stupid overly sensitive people got upset over this video. People really need to chill out.
Also the girl who had the crush on bowser, if you look at her, it is princess peach. : )
My life would be so much easier if I was Aro-Ace… crushes feel nice, but the person you’re crushing on might not necessarily like you back. and she’s lucky she doesn’t have to deal with that. 🤷♂️
This vid really helped me lable some stuff for me. Glad more people are seeing it.
Sorry for the essay, just a really interesting and neat topic to me!
It's always awesome seeing a large content creator talk about groups with little representation in such an easy to consume way. Despite being into social issues or learning about people, prior to this video I didn't think about how aroace must have felt during their childhood and young adulthood and how they didn't think they fit in with the norm.
Really think it's important that younger people are aware of words/terms that exist regarding identity so they know they know they aren't crazy and are valid if they notice a word/term describes fits their feelings.
Jaiden animation was my first fanart I did that got me into doing art. And now she help me figure out that I'm aromantic and asexual. She is such am inspiration to me
Glad you reacted to this, the ace and aro communities got a lotta support from this, and I'm glad we're being acknowledged finally lol
lol! this reminds me of when I was like eight or nine,. my mom was watching Ellen and Ellen casually mentioned her girlfriend and I was like "mom what is that?" and my mom was just like ":ellen is a woman dating a woman?" and I asked if I could do that too when I was older and she was just like "if you want to when your older you can but not right now" (cus I was a child) and then I'm surprised when I come out and my mom is just like, yeah, you told me, when you were eight.
Glad to see you enjoyed her video. And yes as someone who is on the spectrum. I had a very hard time as a kid. And Jaiden making this warms my heart for all the young ones out there who needed this.
The amount of people that are going to have better lives because of her video is incredible
Dude, same. My parents talked a lot about how they would accept if I came out as gay and it seems like it's because I was raised alone by my mother alongside my sisters before getting a choice to stay with my father who I'd get to see every so often. Just some feminine thoughts and actions from living with nothing but women for the first half of my life.
Seeing what ur next video will be i subscribed and instantly starting watching ur other reaction video's on meta runner as i love the series and i also love how u actually show the video ur reacting to instead of making ur head 90% of the screen like most reaction channels i really enjoyed it :D (I suck at grammar dont quote me on that lol)
btw if u noticed my message please respond as i have never been noticed before :D
After watching that video I went and bought something from meta runner!
@@theduckgoesmoo MAN I DID EXACTLY THE SAME
Ironically, Jaiden’s video helped me realize that I’m not aromantic, even tho I am asexual.
6:18 platonic soulmate
In terms of this I’m polyamory and pansexual.
Poly is dating multiple people, and there are various ways that you can be in a poly. I’m dating 3 others, and everyone is included.
Pansexual the best way to describe it is the term most people use which is “gender blind”. You date someone not based on gender, but for who they are.
I hope this helped anyone questioning, and remember even if you don’t fall under certain orientations, the rest of the lgbtq+ community is there to help you.
I love this video its so great i spent most of my life having no idea i am aromantic this video is so informative and helpful love your reaction
As with pretty much anything, these things are a lot more nuanced and there are many different types of "aromantic" and "asexuality", like Jaden said.
Some aros for example can still fall in love. They simply don't want/do romantic relationships.
As for asexuals: A common misconception is that "asexual" also means "aerotic" meaning that they don't feel any erotic desires, either. But to paraquote a member of the diregentlman channel who is asexual: "The human body has more sensations to offer than just sex."
Also, fun fact, according to the extensive research I did on the topic of "asexuality", if you only have sexual desires for those you are romantically involved with, you technically also count as "asexual".
I believe that's called a grey-ace, or greysexual
It makes me so happy she said aro and ace were a different thing, im aromantic and people always think asexual also means aromantic but they arent the same, for some people its not split like that but for a lot are and so it means alot to me to see a youtuber talk about aromanticism since i really dont see anything about it :)
I still often wonder where the line between romantic and platonic is. Because you can argue that a non-sexual romantic relationship. Is just a platonic one turned up to 20/10.
Now i know the counter point is kissing. But i'd say indirect/short kisses (like monther to child) are platonic, and long/messy kisses are sexual. Kisses just serve as a method to show where the line is.
(There are comedic kisses, thinks buggs bunny, but i'll just assume those are outliers because their comedic)
My friends, comrades let us enjoy our garlic bread while we plan out invasion of Denmark with Jaiden as our leader.
i'm very happy jaiden made this video and people are learning stuff from it, as an aromantic asexual person myself it made me feel so seen and i especially related to her "making up a crush" story lol
Thanks for bringing this to my attention I was just looking for another thing from you to give a watch, and this caught my eye.
I never actually saw her vid before, because I assumed I already knew what it was about, but when I saw your title/screencap
It made me realize there may be more too it, so I checked it out and I'm glad I did.
When I first watched this video it answerd ALOT of questions I had
I'm aroace it turns out
Glad her video helped!
@@theduckgoesmoo Thanks man, keep up the good work
Was that Tinder Pic for real?
I already had a hunch that Jaiden was aro-ace when her Dating Sim video came out, but I didn't want to assume.
Than this video came out and I was like
"CALLED IT!"
Yeah it’s one of my tinder pictures lol
As an Aro-Ace I def thought I was Bi or Pansexual at one point. The 0 = 0 argument made sense to me lmao
ESTCF!!
That stands for the Top-LGBT-Coverage i know of and can recommend you warmly: Emma Thorne, Some More News, Telltale Fireside, Creaky Blinder and Forrest Valkai.
as a aroace person myself seeing jaden come out as the same was amazing
Thank you for to cool video! You're really sweet trying to make people's days, and it does help.
I don't know about showing up to the birthday stream because my birthday is literally on the same day, but I hope that you have an awesome day!
Ayyy birthday twins!!
I made my mother watch this because I had tried for years to explain why I was never attracted to anyone. Some of my family still ask if I'm a lesbian since I don't want to date guys. For some reason, they just don't get a person who isn't attracted to anyone.
I've started considering myself to be somewhere on the Ace spectrum relatively recently, not like, because of Jaiden's video or anything, like 1-2 years ago, but still nice for it to be made more well known by popular content creators like her. Not sure if i'm Aro as well or not, cause like, i'm not actively looking for a girlfriend or anything, but at the same time i wouldn't be opposed to finding a girl to spend time with/share interests with that maybe goes a bit farther than just friends, for example, cuddling. I also feel like i'm at least aesthetically attracted(basically you just like the look of) to girls. So to kind of sum up, i don't really care for sex, i wouldn't really go out of my way for a girlfriend but more a "maybe someday" thing, but i do admire the looks of and i think girls are pretty.
I'm pretty much the same, maybe I do feel a bit of attraction, but I'm living fine without it, and won't go actively looking for it. And yeah, I am aesthetically attracted to girls, or rather, femininity.
I'm a guy, but, that doesn't mean I'm straight. I'm attracted to femininity, which includes females and femboys. But not to masculinity, which includes males and overly masculine girls
I haven't been looking for a relationship and haven't romantically loved anyone but I'm only 13 so maybe it's too early for that
I don't think I'd be opposed to sex but I'd be scared of STDs or getting someone pregnant
Idk i could be a tiny bit aro but i think my conclusion is that I'm not old enough to figure out what I am yet
A platonic crush is sometimes known as a squish btw
Just want to point out that this video was rather controversial for some people. Mainly R34 artists from what I saw for ruining their head-canon, despite not caring how uncomfortable R34 makes Jaiden. Honestly I am glad that Jaiden talks about this subject and support her all the way.
It's a great video :) It's nice to see other people sharing what they found in an open space, actually talking as people, rather than being lost and fumbling and with luck stumbling unto answers yourself. Eventually. 'Romance' and all these inter-personal relationship things are really weird and when you're just surrounded with the 'Conventional Expectations' it really doesn't help. I'm in that AroAce space myself, and honestly, aside from like two months with puberty hit hard as a kid, I basically did (and still do XD) the mental arithmetic of calculating what expected emotional responses or assessments should be XD 'Conventionally Attractive' is my honest response to things xD
Me too. My brain also works differently (Aspergers) so there's also that social aspect for me.
This viedo made me cry when I first saw it b/c aromantic and asexual are talked about so little it took me till I was 22 to figure out even the tip of the iceberg into this subject. It took a lot of googling and needing to fight with myself to slowly accept it and I still know almost no one that identifies the same and it makes to seem so lonely.
Thanks for the video! the explaination at the end that you did really stuck out to me. Thank you so much!! You’ve got my sub
I appreciate that
Also thanks for responding! you’re like my idol! ive seen u all over the internet, but keep forgetting to sub. ive done that now. Thanks😃
@@ItsukaKendo2801 aww I’m no different than you! I’m glad you subbed! I hope you enjoy the videos!
I will. You keep makin good content!✊🏼😁
here I just followed ur twitter and insta. Thanks for the content!!
My whole family and all of my friends have been questioning me too lol. It’s not just you
Maybe it’s a Kyle thing
Jaiden's video did help a lot of people. Keep in mind, this video shines a light on the spectrum of romantic/sexual attraction, which helps even more people, like me who discovered I was demiromantic after watching it. The part where she describes not even having crushes in middle and school and just being like "unlucky" in particular totally resonated with me, and explained a lot. Demiromanticism is when a person only forms a romantic attraction to someone if they get to know a person on a deep personal level first, hence why I wanted a relationship but was never interested in pursuing one and, since I'm not demi or asexual, still found people physically attractive. I'm really glad she made it, I would still be in the dark about this to this day had she not brought this to my attention.
Just barely in, and I think people don't think your straight because you fit the "gay" look. Anyway, time to keep reacting
One of the things I really liked about Jaiden's video was when she included the genderfluid flag on a few of the background people. It's a small thing, but we're normally one of the underrepresented LGBTQ+ identities, so it was nice to see.
Anyways, from what I've gathered, there are apparently some people who, despite preaching (literally) that people should avoid sex and that it's shameful or whatever, get really prissy when someone says "I don't experience sexual attraction anyways, so okay." Or whatever.
I don't get it, but from what I gather it has something to do with control.
I relate to her currently. I say currently because I’m not sure if it’ll change. For now I identify with Asexual, but since I’m Trans, I can’t tell if that’s just my dysphoria speaking or if I’m genuinely just Asexual. No way of figuring it out until I transition. All I know is I don’t like it, it feels like a chore not something I want to do, and I just want to go on cute little picnic dates and be a happy couple.
Jaidens video actually helped me with this because I did relate to the thing where you should be feeling these things but I never did feel sexual feelings. I just thought how much I want to cuddle lol
im almost a year late but when you said ill help many kids sure helped we when i saw the video
Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm aromantic or if it's my autism that keeps me from craving a relationship.
People are mad because homophobic
I think kids are being helped less by this than people of 20+ years old are. Older generations barely know anything about this. It took me randomly stumbling upon a twitter thread at age 29 to figure out I'm ace.
Yeah I hear ya. I didn't figure out I was ace until I was 40 from a YT video
and I'm 44. I've never been interested in dating or sex and only had two dates in high school
and that's it but I didn't know the term for it. I'm glad you found out when you were young.
00:05 I don't remember you being less than a mile away. That's ominous.
07:51 Honestly I don't understand why certain people, mostly religious people, discriminate against asexuals as hard as some do. Like, as a gender specialist (not a random title, I literally have a Masters in Gender and Development policies) I know that this is mostly from the idea that you "need" to fit in with what everyone is doing and conform to status quo/idea of normalcy or else you're seen as the "other" and the idea of "other" comes with different schemas even as the idea of the status quo itself shifts yadda yadda-
I just don't understand why certain religious people get it in their heads to be mad about it. Asexual - They either just don't have sex or they don't want it or don't seek it. In a simplified understanding, that's it. Transpose sex with romantic feelings and you have a simplified idea for Aromanticism. What's the problem here? Nowhere is that said to be an issue in the Bible at least, don't know bout the Quran or Vedas granted, so it seemed weird. I guess it's only because they're seen in the larger LGBT group and all the ideological clashes that come with the ones with alternative sex and gender are given to asexuals/aromantics automatically as well.
09:52 Honestly this reminds me of the "I receive _X_. You receive _Y_" meme.
10:26 Honestly I don't feel like an adult either...and I have every reason to considering my life till now with circumstances out of my control...Man this video just brings out the deep stuff, doesn't it?
14:22 I love how the birds also have the stink-eye.
14:31 That specific style of Smash Bros is a reference to Terminal Montage's Animations about video games. They're hilarious if you know the context of the games...Which you don't for most things...But I'm sure they're entertaining in their own way regardless. I Don't think you should do reaction videos to them though. The creator doesn't like that.
14:39 PFFFT. Baby Numbers. I haven't been in a relationship in over 10 years! Haahahahaha...haha...haaaaaa....Loneliness and Existential Crises are two of the things that define me...
17:18 In my case, bullied yes, but more openly ostracized. I didn't truly know what true friendship felt like until 9th grade. And I kept watching shows that had friends do stuff together and have each others backs and being respectful of other's shortcomings etc. and kept wondering, "Why don't I have anyone like that?" Family Friends were the closest it got.
Your chances of being killed by a duck are low, but *never zero*
Despite not fully understanding what Jaiden was saying, I was pretty the same way. (Though, not exactly.)
I don't know who you are but I feel like I should subscribe.
Being aro to me is like oh man, I just wanna hang with my S/O like they are one of the bros. that's it.
Sometimes life can be a very nutty thing.
People were mad at her because she dared to use her platform to promote the sinful lifestyle of... (checks notes) not having sex or significant others? Wait, that can't be right. Who wrote this?
I always called myself Asexual long before society even used the term on humans.
So you're over 60 years old?
While asexuality as a term was first used in the 1960s (or possibly even the 1900s, according to Wikipedia), the concept itself was first scientifically acknowledged in the 1860s by Karl-Maria Kertbeny.
Yeah when you noticed me a few times I suddently turned into sunshine:D [though under other account]
I figured out I was ace about 10 years ago but it often doesn't get taken seriously.
I’m not aro/ace but I’m demiromantic and greysexual wich are in those umbrella terms she mentions and this video is so nice
7:52 well it helped me
Proud aroace here
Then why do male lions mate for life with other male lions and why do swans who are raised by gay swans have higher life expectancy??
Wow, this is a great video.
So by coincidence, I made a video for my own channel coming out as pan. And one of the things I talk about is how I kind of always had those feelings (similar to Jaiden) but had a hard time putting them into words.
And it doesn't help that I grew up in the 90s, where both straight and queer communities alike could be hostile to anyone who identified as bi/pan.
I don't blame anyone specifically, but I think part of the reason I didn't talk about it more was because I felt I had to meet different people halfway. And that was dumb of me.
In the end, I asked myself a very simple question: "If I fell in love with someone (which is something I want), would their gender hold me back from doing so?"
And the answer I came back with was "No."
I'm also aromantic and asexual
Awesome 😎
People get mad for stupid things I'm a bisexual pan romantic demisexual cisgendered male and I know that there's people out there who hate parts of what I am and then there's groups that hate exactly what I am and what's worse is some of those people are the ones who preach the love. Many Christian groups preach love and acceptance I'm Christian too but they would never accept me for what I am the Bible says those who hate can't truly love for God is love but apparently they conveniently forget that when they hate on people like me and Jaiden and the rest of the lgbtq+
It took me until I watched this video, like a week ago, to find that I fell into the aroace category ever since I admitted to a… “crush” like 3 years ago as I was about to move away.
It’s disturbing the amount of vitriol that Jaiden received for her video. There’s so many people who essentially gatekeep what it means to be human based off of one’s orientation or the history of their love life. Most parents who get upset over it, act like they’re entitled for their children to eventually have children of their own; only they don’t act like it’ll be their children having kids, they act like it’ll be getting THEIR own grandkids.
NO one is entitled to having children, and for some reason, married couples believe they’re innately deserving of having a kid, whether that be for financial aid, or just for the image of a happy family. However, I think if you want to have kids just for the image of hallmark Christmas cards, or to tell your friends that “Timmy’s gonna become “x” because we want him to,” or just to have grandchildren, then you don’t love your kids for who they are or might become. At that point, you only want kids to posses them, and for them to become everything you couldn’t. Sorry to go off on this tangent, but I feel it’s something that needs to be discussed more.
ayo happy early birthday, also what's ,funny is my birthday is on this thursday, not that far from yours or his ( depending on who's reading )
Ayy happy early birthday
to unser you on why jaden got some hate on that vidio well the reason is EZ internet can be dum
I guess i could be some what, but a the same time im just going though life not stressing about it. I Play my games stay happy in life, and really thats all that matters. If i find that person if they even exist in the future then so be it but again im not gunna stress it at all. Recently I became an uncle and i plan to fully spoil her as much as can.
I showed the video to a friend of mine when she confessed that she never felt any sexual attraction to anyone so i showed the video and turns out yeah she was(i completely forgor i sent the video until she told me)
Idk if im aromantic
I know that im not as#xu4l
But i never felt any kind of... romantic feelings, but im not sure, im 17 btw, i dont tend to be in love, i just choose someone to be in love with? Kinda?
Is that normal?
If you really wanna get a know Jayden I would recommend her “why I don’t I have a face reveal”
Tbh I didnt finished this video for some reason, I dont even know what compelled me to stop watching this
0:04 Looking good.
So uhh... how big was the betting pool?
So your birthday is on July 2nd congrats happy early birthday
Thank you!
I’m aroace myself.
Fun fact I am the same as Jaiden
I didn’t know Jaiden was insane
Lol I've felt attracted only to a few people ever. I could care less about appearance usually. If I were into appearance I probably would have been into the ripped navy guy at work. I was friends with him, but he had serious crush on me.
I am with someone, but I do often think they're more trouble than their worth, much like my pesky loud naughty cat.