Ace Pride

(Made in October 2022)
to the one label that always makes me feel at home, the first label I found, and that followed me through my entire journey - despite everything, it'll always be me 🖤🤍💜
I'm proud and happy to be asexual <3

I found the ace label when I was about 15, because someone I liked IDed as ace at the time, and I wanted to know what it meant. It's the first label I discovered by name by myself, and it was how I started to learn about the queer community.
After that, I found new labels that fit on other levels (nb, pan, genderfluid, trans, arospec, bi...) but this one never changed. It sticked, always felt right, always felt like /me/ - and I know it won't change.
A few weeks (months?) ago, following a long time of questioning myself and who I was, I decided to stop using labels, to drop all of them. It helped, because my questioning was taking way too much space in my head and I really couldn't deal with any of it anymore.
But I missed the ace label. Because no matter what, it always feels like home to me. So, after some thinking... I'm not just an unlabeled they/he. I'm an unlabeled ace they/he :)