18 Mar 2010, 3:55 pm
RichardP wrote:
I have no one so far to talk frankly and intimately about my life and issues. May I message you from time to time to ask for your sage advice on some thing I going through as I attempt to adjust to the change induced by the AS diagnosis,
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Any information about asexuality and perhaps the purity and beauty of platonic relationships would be most appreciated if indeed you would share it with me
I'm just figuring that out myself, actually. I have had close friendships once before in my life; but the other people weren't asexual, and when that happens you have to back off when they find romance. One day I think maybe I will meet someone(s) who also have friendship as their primary form of close attachment. "Purity", now... you have to remember we are all human, and not having sex doesn't give it any sort of immunity to the messiness of relationships in general. I don't think you have to be asexual to form close platonic friendships, though; it happens (though apparently not nearly often enough), with lifelong best friends.If you're interested, though, you can probably find people a lot more knowledgeable than me at AVEN, which is short for "asexuality visibility and education network" and has a web site at asexuality.org.
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Wouds you tell me about your studies and about what kind of engineer you hope to me, and what tradition of Christianity do you belong and how do you practice it?
Biomedical engineering. I hope to become a rehabilitation engineer--there's a lot that technology can do to fill the gap between what's expected of people and what they can do unassisted; better tech has been doing a lot for people with disabilities lately, and I want to get in on that.
Christianity--well, I'm not fond of denominations, really; I much prefer it when Christians realize they are worshiping the same God and work together. Currently, I'm attending a Baptist church. Christianity, as a whole, is basically people trying to get to know who God is, and trying to deal with the fact that we can see our own imperfection at the same time that we can conceive of an ideal self, and the ideas of absolute truth and absolute good.
