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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-05-17 06:52 pm

[ SECRET POST #3422 ]


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Re: controversial opinions thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
This comment is pretty on the mark.

I think part of the problem is definitely in how people choose to articulate things. Some people, looking back, recognize they felt different in a particular way from a young age, and instead of saying that they felt different and eventually realized they were [x], they say they knew they were [X] from that age. I don't think they mean to lie or even to exaggerate, I think it's a distinction some people's minds just don't make.

Personally, I started feeling different around the age of eight. Most of the girls in my class had "crushes" and put up posters of Johnathan Taylor Thomas in their lockers and got all excited about Valentines Day. And I remember having this deep sense of confusion about whether they were all faking it and just playing along with each other, or whether they were actually feeling something. And then I wondered if I was feeling it too and I just wasn't responding to it right, and so I then I started trying to figure out if I was actually feeling something I...wasn't feeling.

But I sure as hell didn't know I was asexual until a lot later than that. I think I heard the term at about 15 and thought, "Huh. Yeah. That describes me. I guess that's me."