Anonymous asked:Same anon as ("As someone who does identify as gender neutral..") but I won't send anymore due to worry I am just bothering. In response, I see, that is an analogy I had not thought if. Naturally I would say that choice should be given to the individual, although if it were from birth or young age.. Likely asexuality due to definable cause would be "corrected" too.. hmm. One huge thing I hear all the time is "how sad" about my asexuality, but, I feel fine, but if it were like being deaf.. hmm..
oh i’m not bothered
yeah my initial reaction to asexuality many years ago was “oh how tragic” but i thought about it a bit and it pretty much turned into “oh, huh” once i realized how irritating it is to get the “you don’t like football?!” lecture
if you’re deaf then you’re probably constantly surrounded by people who assume you can hear and have to shift into unfamiliar forms of communication just to be able to talk to you at all, which is both a constant reminder and a huge barrier to interaction
but if you’re asexual then, well, it’s not like everyone you meet is immediately trying to get into your pants (i hope) so why does it matter
now if you were interested in a long-term relationship but couldn’t find compatible partners who were also asexual, that might pose a more immediate practical problem. but even then it’s you and one single other person trying to work it out, not you versus virtually everyone else. so that would probably call for compromise long before it called for “fixing” anything.
all part of the murky swamp of trying to get along with the people around us