For many asexual people, expressing feelings of love and closeness through sex just doesn’t naturally occur to them, or sex doesn’t seem like it is intrinsically attached to love. They may seem like separate experiences. Many romantic asexual people have a difficult time realizing they are asexual if they have romantic interests. They may think they can’t be asexual because they still like people romantically, but don’t think of their crushes in a sexual manner. It can be alienating when crushes don’t follow the popular formula; many asexual adolescents even lie to their peers about finding
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