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[How To Train Your Dragon]

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[Fall Out Boy's "The Phoenix"]

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[pokemon conquest]

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I mean, in fairness... what's the observable distinction between someone who is repressed and someone who really is asexual? What signs can you look for to tell that difference? How does one know that someone else is one and not the other? Because it doesn't seem implausible that someone could actually be repressed and not asexual. It's an interesting question, I think - how can you know something like that for certain, especially if you're coming from the outside?

DA

Repressed is usually like they feel its "bad" or "wrong" or "dirty" or "improper" when it comes down to it. Repression is more about behavior or attitude rather than genuine lack of desire.

Asexual is like "I don't see the big deal" and some of us really wish we could see the big deal or why this omg amazing delicious pizza is so delicious-looking for everyone else but has the appeal of cardboard to us. A lot of us are sex-positive, too. We're glad you're enjoying your pizza and that's great.

ayrt

If you're talking about simply observing someone, you're right, there really isn't a reliable way to tell.

I meant when you tell someone you're asexual and they say "don't be stupid, that's not possible, you're just repressed." It's like, how about just taking someone at their word when they tell you what their sexuality is? It's like if someone said "I'm gay" and someone else told them "no, you're not, that's ridiculous, you just think you are because you've had bad luck with the opposite sex" or something. It's just frustrating when some random person thinks they know who you are/what you want better than you do. (And this isn't directed at you personally, just people in general.)

I'm reading some of the replies in here and it's quite interesting.

I think sometimes people label themselves as asexual because they don't/can't know better, but really, it's self-repression. I'm not trying to judge here, I've come to a realization about myself lately and that's it for me.

I had really bad experiences with people in the past, when I was a kid really, and that translated to me being very diffident of people, and mostly men in general. Then, growing up, I felt some times the need to connect physically with a man, but I was too afraid/disgusted/bored by the other mechanisms involved (say, going on a date, intimacy, I hate that), so yeah, I resorted to calling myself asexual and leave it at that, because the alternative seemed weird.

Now I consider myself still sentimentally completely independent, I'll probably never manage to convince myself that I need a companion, but I've come to realize that yes, biologically my body could do with sex.

As for my friends, they are all pretty much convinced that I'm no virgin because I act like I'm not. They all think I'm super selective because I have a very strong no-compromises (and quirky) personality and that I only see men for brief periods of time and with no strings.

I don't know, someone else feeling like this? I feel very alone some times. I still think sex isn't that important, but I *do* think about it, and that irks me more than anything. I just couldn't rule it out. My opinion, related to myself and my body, is that if you ever feel the need to fantasize about sex or read smut etc, even if it doesn't involve yourself, then you ARE a sexual person.

I think sometimes people label themselves as asexual because they don't/can't know better, but really, it's self-repression.

That's not really your place to say, though. Whatever realizations you've come to about yourself are great for you, but you really can't apply those to other people when you don't know anything about them or their situation.

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