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a squish basically means that I find the other party fascinating

 I just really like them and want to hang out with them and talk to them!

I only ever get crushes on people who are already my friends.

Affectional orientation, informally called romantic orientation, indicates which gender or sex with which a person is most likely to have emotional intimacy.

emotional intimacy between partners does not require sexual attraction

gender-blind

gender and sex are insignificant or irrelevant

The concept of pansexuality rejects the gender binary

Historically, there were two gender-neutral pronouns native to English dialects, ou and a.

yo has come to be used as a gender-neutral pronoun

Since at least the 15th century, they (used with verbs conjugated in the plural, as with you), them, their, theirs, and themselves or themself have been used, in an increasingly accepted fashion, as singular pronouns. This usage is often called the singular they. It is widely used and accepted in Britain, Australia, and North America in conversation.

eliminating the need for definite genders in such a society

modeling equal roles for mothers and fathers in the household

individual differences schema, where children learn to process information on a person-by-person basis rather than make wide assumptions about groups based on information from individuals

society should decrease the use of the gender dichotomy