jetflashback: I came out to my parents as ace and they got really angry like I told them I was into hard drugs. But now I'm reeling because I don't WANT to be ace. I want to have "normal" attraction and sex drive for people I see around me. I'm 22 and I didn't even know asexually was a thing until about 2 years ago and since then I've accepted that it's what I am- but I didn't realize I wasn't "normal". Like I could never understand why everyone was so into sex. I don't know I wish I could just accept myself.

acesovertwenty:

The thing about “normal” is that it’s entirely subjective. What’s normal for one person could be completely strange to someone else. There’s nothing abnormal about being asexual. That’s what your normal could be. Asexuality is normal for me because it’s what I’ve always been. We each make our own normal just by being who we are; it’s human nature to have differences. No two people are exactly the same, and just because what makes up your personal differences is something that a lot of other people don’t have, it doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with you. 

I hope this helps you out a bit. I know when I was really struggling with seeing myself as “not normal”, the way I got past it was reminding myself that the concept of normal is ridiculous because there’s not one single human experience, so to assume that every person in the world has to be the same in anything is a bit unreasonable. Normal is whatever we are.

-Mod Sara

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