Am I too young to be ace?

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

I don't think your too young, I mean, technicality, when you think about it, we're all ace at some point when were younger. Cause if babies were attracted to eachother that would be creepy. But anyhow, some people just stay that way and never "grow out of it".

I've met a six year old who was definetly experiencing sexual attraction for someone his age.

[Lost247365]

Old thread is old.

That said:

Anyway, research shows that the average age at which one first experiences sexual attraction is only 10 years old with a standard deviation of 3.5 years. Assuming a normal pattern of distribution* this means 68% have experienced sexual attraction at least once in their life by the time they are 13-14, and that 95% have experienced it by age 17, and by age 21-22 over 99% of people can say they experienced it. Given that asexuals make up 1% of the population I would say one can be pretty sure that if they haven't experienced it by then they never will.

Of course, experiencing sexual attraction is not quite the same as figuring out ones orientation, but ehhh...

*which is probably a poor assumption to make as there is only so far one can go younger than 10 which means it is probably a right skewed distribution if anything meaning that the odds are probably GREATER than one would expect.