Zebrafinch Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 I know there's a few of you who came up with or found the word asexual and applied it to yourselves before finding out that others had done the same. I'm just curious about how many of you did. Link to post Share on other sites
Anthracite_Impreza Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 I "invented" it before finding it on Wikipedia and AVEN. Link to post Share on other sites
Scottthespy Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 34 minutes ago, Anthracite_Impreza said: I "invented" it before finding it on Wikipedia and AVEN. Likewise. I found aven when I first searched it, but it was so long ago the site was in its infancy, and it didn't offer anything that made me want to stay at that time. Link to post Share on other sites
Evren Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 I found demisexual first from Ysabetwordsmith's fic Love is for Children: https://archiveofourown.org/series/42722 When I looked up demisexual, it brought me to AVEN and I found the term asexual and what it meant. Link to post Share on other sites
IknowyouarebutwhatamI Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 My high school friends used it numerous times to describe me. (20 years ago) Link to post Share on other sites
Skycaptain Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Probably like most, I was first introduced to the term in a non-human sense during school biology, or at any rate from a biology textbook being read before we broached the subject at school. Only applied the term to myself much later Link to post Share on other sites
Rama Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 I knew the term from biology and a few times called myself asexual, but I didn't think it was a legitimate orientation for a while. I'm ashamed of it now but I used to be really homophobic when I was a teenager. For a long time I thought sexuality was a choice and that I must have been straight but just mentally fucked up in some way. Even after I grew up and became a decent person, I was still unaware of asexuality until meeting someone who identified as such. As well I watched Bojack Horseman; I found Todd really relatable and finally figured myself out. Link to post Share on other sites
Salmiakki Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 I heard about asexuality and many other sexualities way before I was 12. My reaction was something along the lines of "okay, cool" Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 @Zebrafinch This poll is being locked and moved to the read only Census archive for it's respective year. As part of ongoing Census organisation, and in an attempt to keep the demographics of the polls current with the active user base at the time, the polls will last for one year from now on. However, members are allowed and even encouraged to restart new polls similar to the archived ones if they like them. iff, Census Forum Moderator Link to post Share on other sites
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