#I'm 99.9 percent sure she doesn't even know asexuality is a thing

[questioningdragons]

Last week I had the incredibly awkward experience of hearing a well meaning mom trying to educate her kid by telling him: "All adults have sex." I can't remember exactly what else she said, but something about it being a normal part of a healthy life. I corrected, "Not all," and she half-heartedly agreed with me, but it really felt like there was some internal commentary on the kind of adults who don't.

And I know she means absolutely nothing by it and is just trying to be sex positive and she doesn't even know I'm ace, but it's really been messing with my head this weekend.

#notes from the word page #in related news I took a summer job as a nanny #I know she's just an uninformed cishet woman who has very little experience outside her heteronormative life #but it hurt worse than I would have thought #I'm 99.9 percent sure she doesn't even know asexuality is a thing