I told my parents I am ace

I have never posted here before, but I need te share this with someone, anyone.

My parents always believed I would be lesbian. Reality is, I feel more attracted to men than women, but over the course of the past couple of years, partly because of this wonderful community, I now know for certain that I am and always have been asexual. Something has always been missing within me. I do long for companionship, I am quite a social person, but you all know how asexuality works by now. That specific feeling, that longing, is not there.

I am sure my parents would have been fine if I came out as lesbian. But I didn't. I came out as asexual. And my father believes I am just trying to "be part of a crowd" again like I did as a teen when I was wearing only black for a year or two. I am trying to "put a stamp on myself, just to be able to belong".

It's so hypocritical. If I had come out as lesbian it would have been acceptable, all fine. But no, I am being stamped as a "child that is looking for a crowd to belong". Mind you, I am 26 years old. I am far from a child anymore. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around his reaction. And my mom just sat there, just listening but not joining the conversation.

Anyone else had a situation like this?

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Am I asexual?

hello so I'm 20 and I am a virgin. and I feel like I am asexual. so I think it all started when I was 18, when I was still a "boy" (I'm a transwoman, btw) and I have this female friend of mine whom I almost did "it" with but I eventually declined because I couldn't feel a strong sexual attraction towards her and I thought I was gay, it happened like atleast thrice with three different women. and then this year (20) I tried hitting it with men but like IDK I always decline because I really just don't feel much sexual attraction. Yeah, i find people attractive but like I just can't see them as sexual stuff you know and like I used to act hypersexual before but like that was only because people like it LOL I don't enjoy it myself and I cringe everytime I remember acting that way LOL I mean, I do get aroused watching porn and stuff but like, I just can't see doing it myself. IDK I am kinda confused really.

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Had to add this here
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This is a threat
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Plight of LGBT individuals in Kakuma Camp Kenya

LGBT individuals in Kakuma face the worst conditions all just because of their sexual orientation.

Constant attacks, beatings, discrimination, rape and name it.

We don't deserve to be treated this way.

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A blessing from the lord
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Ok, so you have Garlic Bread and cake, but where does r/aaaaaacccccccce stand on cheese? (Very important)
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What do you think of my brACElet?

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Thanks to my brother I'm almost having an anxiety attack, how nice

This just happened a couple minutes ago, for context I'm not out to anyone in my family but I do defend LGBT+ rights whenever they say something homophobic and say it's just a joke

My eldest brother came over with his girlfriend for the day, we had dinner and everything, they were on the couch talking while I was in the room next to it with the door open so I could hear. My other brother said to him, half joking "Just so you know, my name is getting worse. She made LGBT flags!" At first I thought he would have said something about my social anxiety or whatever, but he didn't and my heart started going like crazy, so I jokingly (and kinda panicky) said, to not make this discussion serious "Yeah, and I even made one upside-down LMAO" (the pan one, I still confuse the blue and pink/red 😭)

My father said, aggressively but kind of joking, "I want to see them now" and I just went into my room and took the ace one, showed it knowing they had no idea what flag it is, and just went back into my room and sit down cuz I started feeling light headed, out of breath and as if I was going to cry, I call these anxiety attacks even though I don't know if they actually are but I have them when I feel extremely anxious and nervous.

Now I just want to hide myself from everyone and everything and just disappear from existence, the thought of coming out and receiving a negative reaction makes me feel so, so sick.

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It’s gotta be the sex for me…
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I know it's not November but fight me
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Garlic bread time!
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:)
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I have a question.

So I was wondering if I'm straight and ace am I still part of the LGBTQ+ community? I am slightly educated in the community so I was wondering if I still count?

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guuYYYSSSS I MADE GARLIC BREADSTICKS DIG INNNNNN

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Are the allos okay? Did she see me as a threat? Why did she do this?

So I’m at the grocery store minding my own asexual business. I’m looking for some oat milk.
There’s a hetero fronting couple in front of me. The guy is pushing the cart and the girl is next to him.

She looks behind at me. Makes eye contact, then grabs his butt. Okay whatever.

But then she proceeds to stick her finger in his crack. He tries to get her to stop and she looks at me again AND DOES IT AGAIN. Wtf????

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5+ hours of hard work...
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