For that matter, I kinda miss the days of early elementary school when I could be friends with ANYONE without worrying about "am I leading him on?", "Is she a lesbian and is she thinking I might be?", or "I wonder if he knows I have a commitment to being single and it doesn't matter whether or not I would otherwise have been attracted to him."

Not that I'm some super-attractive vixen that everyone falls in love with, or that anyone really gets particularly attracted to, even. Just that I want to be able to develop friendships and not have to worry at all about whether other people are scheming for a romantic match (especially since, as someone that has committed to staying single forever, it gets very awkward to have friends that don't support that and that still try to "hook me up" with people) or about reading between the lines to see whether I need to pull away because he's about to overstep bounds because he thinks I'm encouraging that, or whatever else it may be.

Yah.