mikeman7918

I'm just generally uncomfortable with my body most of the time, both because of my weight (I'm working on fixing that) and sometimes gender dysphoria (curse you gender fluidity). I'm even uncomfortable taking my shirt off around others despite being male, so needless to say locker room situations have always been very uncomfortable for me.

When two characters in The Walking Dead get into a relationship and while everyone else is like "I totally shipped them OMG this is amazing!" I'm like "Focus on killing the zombies, dammit."

I've got that to, from my mom. She was initially a bit skeptical about my asexuality, but when I said that I'm aromantic too then she flat out refused to believe me.

I'm in the same situation with my best friend and his boyfriend (yes, they are gay). I have managed to help them with their relationship a few times, I think it's because I'm entirely logical about relationship stuff while for most people there are a bunch of strong emotions involved or something like that. But yeah, I've launghed at that too because I have no relationship experience and this is my friend's third relationship so you'd think that I am the last person he would ask for relationship advise.

Three years ago my mom kind of pushed me to ask this one girl out that I knew and we went on one date before she decided that she was done with me. The religion I was part of before becoming atheist (Mormonism) teaches that marriage is basicly the key to eternal happiness so in my youth group it was rather shameful to have never dated, having that one date under my belt meant that I was no longer among the ranks of those who had never dated and I was glad to have that out of the way. I used it as evidence that I was making progress in that area even though I was mostly just stalling because I quite enjoy being single. That was before I even knew that I was aromantic and asexual.

I'm mildly autistic so romance didn't really stand out among the many other social things that confuse me, I assumed I was strait but that everyone else was just making a big deal out of nothing. A few months ago I wondered if I might be bisexual because I can appreciate a good looking guy just as much as I can appreciate a good looking girl even though I'm not romantically or sexually attracted to either. Later I came across asexuality and realized that it fit me, I assumed that I was heteroromantic but later I came to the conclusion that I'm aromantic.