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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-02-15 03:32 pm

[ SECRET POST #2601 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2601 ⌋

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Re: Well, OP

(Anonymous) 2014-02-15 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, because you know so much more about OP from their secret than they know about themselves from living their entire life. Rude.
Don't worry OP, asexuality is real and if you identify as such there are plenty of people who will be supportive of you, even though there will be people like this^ who will try to 'talk you out' of your sexuality. They can't believe sexuality is real or for some reason think that people who identify as asexual are just trying to be 'different' or 'special' rather than describing their own legitimate experiences. They're no good for your mental/emotional health, it's best to ignore them.
I'm glad you found something that put you at peace with your identity. There aren't that many, if any, asexual role models in the media, and the characters who don't have sex/romantic relationships are usually portrayed as 'bad' or 'defective' in some way, so I get that just seeing a character who could be asexual who's NOT a complete mess could be comforting. My favourite author, Alastair Reynolds, writes hard sci-fi, and he doesn't often feature romantic relationships and even less often does he focus on them, and I interpret a good number of his characters as asexual to give myself a bit of 'representation'. I wish I could recommend something else to you but the only book I've read that has an explicitly asexual character (The Bone People) is garbage.