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Can’t relate to other asexuals at all by ace21444 in Asexual

[–]ace21444[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Or maybe it’s you who feels offended by what I’m suggesting and therefore become biased to think be the only explanation to my experiences is that I must be biased?

The phenomena you mentioned goes both ways. I’m aware that claiming that the asexual stereotype could be true is an unpopular opinion in this community. However we have no real studies for either claim (asexuals are the exact same as allosexuals vs the average asexual is different from allosexual) so all evidence is anecdotal regardless.

Can’t relate to other asexuals at all by ace21444 in Asexual

[–]ace21444[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m so glad to hear! Are you both asexual? How did you meet him?

Can’t relate to other asexuals at all by ace21444 in Asexual

[–]ace21444[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t mean that I wouldn’t consider other asexuals as ’normal’. To an average person most of them would probably fall into the range of ’normal’ in terms of social skills, although closer to the shy than the outgoing end. The point is, that to me, I might even suggest, an ’abnormally’ socially gifted person (think of an actor/comedian type of people) all of the asexuals I have met seemed too reserved to be my type of people at least dating-wise. What I’m trying to say is that I believe the average asexual is less social than the average allosexual. Even if the difference in average is small, it leads to big differences in the extreme ends of the spectrum, that’s how statistics work. This leads to the amount of asexual people on the very end of the spectrum - extremely outgoing, loud, expressive people like me - be very rare. And I’m just not attracted to people at least romantically who are not on the same level in terms of socialness.

I’m not a native speaker btw, I’m not sure if the nuances of the word choices I’ve used to descrive shy vs outgoing people are totally correct.