ANewAce Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 So I came out as ace to my mom a few months ago. She seems pretty accepting of it. I also told her I've been depressed for a while too. However, she took this to mean that I'm ace because I'm not interested in anyone since I have depression. She also said it may be because of my hashimotos (being ace). I tried telling her that depression affects libido, not attraction and that those two things are different but she doesn't seem to get the difference. I also tried telling her that I was ace before I was depressed too but that didn't work. How can I explain this better? Link to post Share on other sites
Stheg Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 She probably needs an explanation of the difference between sexual desire and a sex drive. She's probably not trying to be insensitive, she may just really not know the difference. Link to post Share on other sites
Mermaidy Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 if libido and attraction were the same, all heterosexuals/homosexuals would have half the sex drive as bisexuals, all bisexuals would always have double the sex drive as hetero/homo, etc which is clearly not the case. Anyone can find out that nonasexual couples have issues with differing libidos all the time by going outside once Link to post Share on other sites
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