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With apologies to a very similar earlier comic, #4, Just Like Me: I present a slightly different take on “you can only write about your own experience but you’re obsessed with your own perspective if you write about your own experience.”

So apparently it’s super weird for me to write about people who aren’t me, but if I do write about people who are like me in a specific way, that’s super weird too.

Let’s get something straight (no pun intended): Aromantic people might have several good reasons for writing aromantic characters. They’re the most likely to write an authentic aromantic experience, and they may want more aromantic stories to exist in the world since we don’t have many, and they may just find it easier to borrow that aspect of their own lives (even though we aren’t writing about ourselves unless it’s an autobiography). But! Being aromantic and asexual doesn’t mean I can’t write characters who feel differently about romantic and sexual attraction. It’s only natural that our characters would sometimes be quite different from us, sometimes in fundamental ways. And it would certainly be odd if every single character I wrote was the same orientation as I am (though I’m assuming straight people do this all the time and have never thought it was odd).