I'm straight. Not interested in women. I am interested in men. But, here's the funny thing: I think about sex, but I have no sex drive. I don't even like to cuddle.
I was raped by my ex, but that was 5 years ago and doesn't hardly bother me now. Before then, I just felt pressure to have sex to become "normal". A few years after that incident, I was diagnosed as HFA and now feel 100% Aspie "normal". I feel stupidly in love (lust? obsession?) with a former co-worker at a former employment, but it turns out he was just making a fool of me. Now, I just broke up with my NT boyfriend (we almost lasted two months!) because I made a social mistake and made him a nice romantic dinner, but totally forgot that those sort of situations turn a man on. I was just trying to be nice. Thank god I now know never to cook for another man again unless I'm in the mood for sex.
I've been sick with three cases of strep throat, a case of food poisoning, and have been on antibotics for two months, and just haven't been in the mood. I'm not sure if I should have forced myself to have sex with him to make him happy, but I'm not even sure if that would have solved the issue. At any rate, I blew up and exploded at him in a rage because I was upset over the fact that he said that by my age (I'm 25), I should know certain things and I don't. It's a fact, I shouldn't have gotten into such a blind rage - but it happened. I hurt him and hurt myself even worse for being so mean to a guy who was so nice. I know by the age of 25 I should be a lot more experienced in terms of relationships, but the fact of the matter is that I am not. After my ex, I just didn't date because I was too upset at myself and dealing with the emotional issues.
I am confused. Am I asexual or do I just simply lack a sex drive? What ever the answer, I am slipping back into my self-created prison and only interacting with the outside world when I have to - otherwise, I hurt myself and I hurt others. It's just so, ugh. Why can't people just write books on these issues?
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost