I feel this one hard
I was 35 when I discovered that I'm ace. Prior to that, I never really understood why someone was never "sexy" to me, why I was never interested in sex. While I was teenager, my friends were all "boy crazy", I was interested in anime and drawing and I was just weird. I have epilepsy, so the assumption was always that it was a side effect of meds, so I would try different meds. I had multiple boyfriends, that I loved very much, but had no interest in their bodies and the penis? Eeewwww. It wasn't until halfway through my 30's I heard the term "asexual". I read up about it, I came to an earth shattering realization, I'm ace!! I panicked! Is this really me? Do I need to "come out"? What do I do? I'm 37, it's still a bit of a mind bending thing. I haven't told anyone other than just a few people, simply because I know people don't get it and I just don't want to even bother with it.
I was 35 when I discovered that I'm ace. Prior to that, I never really understood why someone was never "sexy" to me, why I was never interested in sex. While I was teenager, my friends were all "boy crazy", I was interested in anime and drawing and I was just weird. I have epilepsy, so the assumption was always that it was a side effect of meds, so I would try different meds. I had multiple boyfriends, that I loved very much, but had no interest in their bodies and the penis? Eeewwww. It wasn't until halfway through my 30's I heard the term "asexual". I read up about it, I came to an earth shattering realization, I'm ace!! I panicked! Is this really me? Do I need to "come out"? What do I do? I'm 37, it's still a bit of a mind bending thing. I haven't told anyone other than just a few people, simply because I know people don't get it and I just don't want to even bother with it.