Embrace | An Asexuality-Focused Animated Short Film

This is absolutely outstanding in every way. Thank you so much for creating it and posting it. Congratulations on this amazing achievement!

😂😂😂🤮🤮🤮

I experience asexuality when I feel dysphoric. (yes, I’m transgender) people often tell me that I’m just faking it or I just want attention that it’s not a real thing and it’s so frustrating.

literally teared up watching this. i came out to myself as ace earlier this year and it's been a wild ride figuring things out and coming out as nonbinary/agender later. i\'m still figuring it out tbh, and i still struggle with feeling somewhat "broken" or not a "full human," with that stupid argument that "sex is what makes us human!" also as a bipoc individual, the representation was great :,) beautiful animation, well done!!

It made me cry it's beautiful

This made me cry.

It's not a flaw - it's a feature! 🙂

I literally cried, I have never felt so understood 😭

Every time people mention romantic/sexual culture like it's normal, I feel so triggered and lonely. I came here to remember that I'm not alone in the way I am.

I'm not crying...

I fucking love this, as an aroace who's both sexually and romantically active I'm def showing this to my non asexual partners as a way to show them how I feel

This was beautiful and the animation was so cute, I cried. 🖤💜🤍

One of the people they saw when they realised is definitely me! I was insecure about being a virgin for a long time so I started thinking. I'm not asexual but I am ace-spec, demisexual to be exact. I'm a virgin at 17 and not embarrassed anymore! Of course I was invited to do it and the one who said I don't want to was ME! Embrace the ace!

I literally wept

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL, I can't belive how much i cry, I need this, thank you❤

I felt every crack in the girl on myself.

I don’t know if you realize how much this means, but honestly and truly thank you

embrace the ace, or in this case, the Ase

why do i feel this way sometimes? I can love but no one wants to love me and sometimes i can't love back. when i need to feel that way so badly

I think it's easier to be asexual now than it was 10-20 years ago. so much is different... not being welcomed by society is true, and it was just a lot louder before

I'm an asexual
I control my thoughts on sexual ones and most of the times repulsive to think about those

Did masturbate just to cut off those thoughts not because I'm lured by them
My libido is simply low or average
I understand sometimes when you see other couples going strong and your single but you want heartfelt love relationship with someone and after years of strong growth of love and bondage then i prefer marriage, make love , kids and happily ever after like fairytales .

But when you don't find one you just feel lost alone and broken , also misunderstood by people
But people's opinions don't matter at anything about yourself even when you're asexual

I know some people be like x is the highest form of love
No
Love is beyond x
And
it's just that I agree and prefer love before lust.
Because when things come to love relationship
I just want heartfelt love connection over lust
That's how I view love
Love above lust
So i embrace my asexuality instead of trying to be other kind sexuality that isn't me .

I just don't want to be something I'm not .

And i embrace my asexuality with pride as I love the way I am .

😢so relatable❤happily asexual

IM CRYING GAAAH,ITS SO CUTE AND EMOTIONAL

Wonderfully done! Thank you for this! 💜🩶🖤

This is beautiful! I’m my heart! Thank you💜🖤🤍

Saving this to come out with❤️

Wow.
The animation, the use of themes that appear again in transformed ways throughout the shortfilm.. the power of showing without ever saying a singular word. It's amazing.
I am on the aroacespec. I never felt represented in films and never understood people on TV having relationships like that. I have partnerships and everyone knows about my sexuality. Now that I know who I am, I am neither confused or scared. But when I was a teen and everyone started falling in love, I thought I had to force myself into developing crushes because that was the "right" thing to do at my age. After I moved out to go to university, I found social media and queer culture and all those terms. In a fan comic, I found a character depicted with struggles like mine and that helped me find the right labels to describe my experience and identity.
I like who I am.

Thank you for the video and spreading awareness. I wish you well in life and hope your project was well-received! 🥰✨💜

When I was younger, I never could understand why a kiss never felt right. You grow up being taught that having a girlfriend or boyfriend was what you should really want, that being together would make you.. happy. But then, when you get there, and it doesn't, you feel broken, like there's something wrong with you. I understood other sexualities from a young age, gay, bi, lesbian and so on, but I'd never seen or even heard of being ACE. I thought I was erotophobic, just.. scared of intimacy. But as I grew, I stumbled across asexuality at random and it was so... liberating, to learn that there were others, just like me. That I wasn't 'wrong', that I wasn't as different, or as weird as I thought I was. And I love that media like this is slowly becoming more prevalent, so that others who don't know, and don't feel like they fit in, can find out.. why.. so they can find out, they're not wrong. That we're out there, too

There's only two genders in this world. Except abnormal people

AWWWW THIS IS AMAZING 🤩🤩🤗🤗👍💫💫💫

Welcome to the cult of the garlic bread.

This is so great ❤

This is so beautiful, I almost cried, thank you!

Not quite asexual, but i am on the spectrum. Im a Demi so i can relate. I always thought there was something wrong with me. Once I found out about Demisexuality that it all made sense and I accepted it!

As an aromantic and strict asexual person, I say that this video represents me a lot. Sometimes I feel like I'm broken for not feeling love the way people say it should. I like kisses, hugs and caresses but I never want to have sex and that's okay! The only certainty is that I need to live being who I am and feeling that I'm doing it right!

Bonito corto animado :) es bonito la forma en que explican la sexualidad de forma sencilla y corta. No como la inclusión forzada que existe en Disney y otros programas.

Embr-ace yourself

This is such a cute animation!! Love the message. Also very impressed how you managed to tell such a clear story without any words 😊

I only realised I was ace earlier this year tbh. I'd been together with my LDR ex for roughly 3,5 years. I always assumed I was just straight with a low libido or something like that. Or maybe demi. Due to the LDR aspect of our relationship I didn't give the physical intimacy part of our relationship much thought, as we only got to see each other once every few months anyway. I'd say probably last year I really started thinking about how I truly felt, due to noticing how uncomfortable certain acts made me feel and also my ex telling me about his own feelings regarding my lack of desire for him. I felt bad, even though I knew that this is just the type of person I am. Though I couldn't help but feel like I had to compromise. That I was being difficult.
Last December I ran into a video called "The Queer Erasure of Asexuality (A Discussion)". Although I'm not a gay guy, some of the experiences one guy spoke about really resonated with me. I think that's what got the ball rolling. And also lead me to conclude that me and my ex's relationship, once transitioned into a regular short distance relationship, most likely wasn't gonna pan out well due to this major incompatibility. That in combination with future/lifestyle incompatibilities, and major communication issues just made me go like: "It's probably best we end this. This is not sustainable."

It hurt like a bitch, cause platonically everything was still super hunky-dory, but I knew if we stayed together and compromised we'd grow bitter and resentful of one another. That, or eventually break up when shit would really hit the fan. I didn't want that. So this was the best path forward. It stung extra hard due to this being my first and only serious relationship so far.

This is really relatable. I got depressed and felt so alone with the Internet's hypersexual culture, and it just became worse and worse. It felt like no one was real anymore, like they couldn't experience emotions or care at all about friends or family, because of this aspect. I'm still confused about myself but it's really nice to think that, maybe, I'm not alone... It makes me cry. :( Thank you to the person who made this film and the kind community in the comments.

I’m crying so much.💜🖤🩶🤍

I'm exploring the possability of being Aroace myself. The reason is because I'm a female highschooler, and when people flirt with me it makes me uncomfortable, but the idea of a sexual experience sounds nice. I am VERYYY confused about who I am.

Anyone got tips for me?

I think the fact that the allosexuals were coloured in a golden yellow since yellow is the complementary colour to purple

If it's possible to have a terrible relationship with sex, how is it so hard for people to accept that you can have an amazing relationship without it? People who prefer it that way aren't broken, just different.

This is a gorgeous piece of art. It says so much without saying a word. I'm demisexual/romantic, so even though I'm not completely ace, i understand the feeling of being broken and not understanding why you're not like the people around you. I teared up when her inner self comforted her and healed her cracks. It's something i need to keep doing. Thankfully i have a wonderful fiance who accepts me fully.

I'm honestly kinda envious of kids today with regard to resources on LGBTQ topics. Us older millennials didn't have that growing up. No Internet, no resources unless you heard where to go via the grape vine, no positive representation in the media till the late 90s, no books (again, grape vine), and no way to know if someone close to you is gay unless they had the balls to say it. I thought i was straight till i turned 21. I also thought i was a woman, lol. It was thanks to the internet that i was finally able to find answers to who i was.

So thank you for making things easier on LGBTQIA kids. I hope this ends up going viral. 🌈

master at osu!

This made me teary and it means a lot to see this. Thank you for creating this.

This video means a lot to me. I’m asexual and it feels just like that to me. Sexual intimacy is very uncomfortable to me and makes me feel violated.

Honestly I should've known sooner that I was ace. When I found out other kids in the 8th grade were having sex, I was legitimately shocked