Anyone else feel like the asexuals are the most misunderstood part of the LGBTQ+ community?
I cant be the only one who feels like genuinely no one understands what asexual actually means except for the asexuals themselves. First of all, the large majority of ace characters in almost any media are wildly mischaracterized (although funnily enough they aren’t even represented that much to begin with, I can only think of 3 canonically ace characters, and one of them is just a joke.) Secondly, almost no one seems to get that asexual and aromantic are two completely different things. At least once a week I get a comment from my parents about how I “don’t ever wanna get married anyways” in various contexts, despite having only told them I am asexual. (I also came out to them as gay, if I’m not romantically or sexually attracted to anyone, what do they think the gay part means?) Thirdly, genuinely confused how there are people who think that asexuals don’t exist because of dumb arguments like “well sex is just a normal thing” or something like that. Although I guess I can understand where people get that idea considering how over sexualized everything is now, it seems weird to people when something isn’t related to sex. Finally, I have had it up to here with people saying “oh, you’re just young, you’ll grow out of it” or “you just havent found the right person yet” like, why is my sexuality everyone else’s concern? That’s all I’ve got to say
