Autism and homosexual thoughts?

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There a straight NTs, and gay NTs, and there are straight ASD folks, and there are gay ASD folks.

Having "homosexual thoughts" has nothing to do with autism.

Supposedly there are slightly more LBGT folks per capita among autistics than there are among NTs, but that doesn't change the fact that what you're wresting with doesn't have much to do with autism..

Just putting it out there. Having homosexual thoughts does not necessarily mean you are homosexual.

Last edited by SaveFerris on 07 Aug 2017, 8:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

You're right.

In my 56 years, I've had a few "homosexual" thoughts. However, I cannot see myself actually being intimate with a man, kissing a man, etc. No way, Jose!

I like ladies!! !! !

Occasionally I find myself attracted to women - and have done since I was a teenager - but it doesn't happen very often.

Feminine looking women with masculine personalities tend to catch my eye, especially if they have blonde or red hair. I like quirky intellectuals too, like Lucy Worsley.

First off, dunno about bisexuality and homosexuality being linked but basically homosexuality is where you're completely or at least primarily attracted to the same gender, and bisexuality is where you're attracted to both genders equally (or more into same gender but more than slightly into the opposite gender eg 70% same and 30% opposite), or possibly attracted to the opposite gender primarily but sometimes attracted to the same gender as yourself (80% opposite and 20% same). You could possibly be pansexual, which is sorta similar to bisexuality except it means the gender is irrelevant, and that you potentially could fall for either, as it goes by who or
what you're attracted to eg intelligence, rather than the gender of the person you have the eye for (I'm not exactly the best at explaining so maybe look up pansexual on Wikipedia or something).

Secondly, I can't tell you how to think or feel, but you should not have to feel that it is a sin, especially not when it comes to love, there is NOTHING sinful whatsoever about love, whether it's with a woman OR a man. Anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is not worth bothering with, I don't just mean people disagreeing or having their own opinion about it, I mean anyone who tries to convince you that it's sinful or wrong or tries to make you feel bad about it should be avoided completely.

Lastly, I suggest that if there is a man you feel attracted to who also feels attracted to yourself then you could experiment with him, but only if you (both) feel comfortable with doing that (even if that experimentation is simply getting to know each other and seeing how things are with that, no need to rush into sexual experiment, especially if that kinda scares you). It gets so much easier to handle being gay/bi over time, trust me

PS sorry for the 500 word essay but I hope it helps, and as far as I'm aware, any sort of ASD or HFA is absolutely NOT synonymous with sexuality, I believe that is merely a coincidence

But it is sexual variance

I know some religions consider same sex attractions to be a sin but I personally don't. In fact, sometimes even within the same religion there seems to be much debate about this. For example, there is some Bible verse that says homosexuality is an abomination. But at the same time there is this website, http://believeoutloud.com/take-action/find-your-community that has tons of churches that openly welcome gay, lesbian, and bisexual people without trying to change them. I'm not going to tell you what to believe but I think you may want to consider seeing if your religion has any groups that accept gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.

The article he is referring to is only about gender variance, not sexual variance.

That's assuming he is indeed gay or bi, it might yet be something and nothing, or maybe it's just that one person who happens to be a man, not cos he's a man but cos he is everything the OP wants in a person, the rest of the time the OP may only be into women in that way but if has found his soulmate in a man then that's that. Being gay is where a person is attracted to the same gender as him or herself generally in their lifetime, if it's just one same sex person then it's something else, pansexuality probably