SleepyCatten (Barely Surviving Arc)Aug 2, 2024

Hey lovely folks of fedi who are anywhere on the asexual spectrum 

A friend of ours¹ thinks they might be asexual, but they're doing the doubting questioning thing  (i.e., the thing we mostly all do with sexuality, gender, romanticity, neurodivergence etc.)

Please may we call upon your collective knowledge and experiences to share what asexuality means for you and help us bust some myths for others who might be questioning too?  

Thank you kindly in advance  

Boosts appreciated  

#asexual #demisexual #greysexual #graysexual #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #AskFedi

¹ Yes: we genuinely are asking for a friend! We are very much allosexual ourselves 😅😳

Edit: Changed the link, per a recommendation for a better wiki page 🥰

Edit 2: Thank you to all your varied answers so far! Please keep them coming! Hopefully this will help our friend and others who are questioning. But anyone wondering about us, your experiences very much confirm how allosexual we are 😅😳

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@SleepyCatten

So. As I was trying to nail down my gender, a sidebar article said "Other articles you may be interested in" and listed Demisexual.

Out of curiosity, I clicked.

I read the words defining Demisexual.

"Why is this defining me? Wait. Why is even this a thing, with a term, in the first place? ....wait. I'm not heterosexual?"

And it was an entire..... I didn't know that I wasn't Het, but instantly and immediately, I knew it was right. It was me, and I was home.

Like that Avicii / Aloe Blacc song.

"All this time I've been finding myself, and I didn't know I was lost."

Questioning. Yes. But. In small but important moments, there is also Answering.

Having words and terminology on new concepts, doesn't change who you are. Not better, Not worse.

Is.

Aug 2, 2024 at 1:42pmWeb