Hard relate because the discussions with peers where I tried to bring up asexuality and that some people dont want sex ended with “if you’ve never felt sexual attraction by 50 then maybe, but you’re too young to know now”

I dont think I need to wait my whole life to feel attracted to someone so I can go ‘oh silly me, all the experiences I had before this point have magically vanished since I was mistaken all along!’.

On a nicer note, the classmate next to me this week went “you know, thinking about it, all the crushes I had were actually just admiration that I mixed up with attraction. Do you think that happens often to others?” And I had the pleasure to introduce him to the label aromantic and explain what it was, and he was genuinely interested in understanding and very happy to learn. I explained that I feel that describes me and my experiences and said he could use it too if he wanted. It was genuinely a nice exchange that gave me a bit more faith in others’ perception of aromanticism and asexuality.