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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:25 pm

I'm just curious about what sexual orientation people with Asperger's identify as most.

Before anyone asks -

Straight: you only are interested in sexual relationships with people of the opposite sex
Gay: you are a male, and are only interested in sexual relationships with other males
Lesbian: you are a female, and are only interested in sexual relationships with other females
Bisexual: you are interested in sexual relationships with both males and females
Pansexual: you are interested in sexual relationships with not only males and females, but also transgendered people, intersexed people, etc.
Asexual: you are not interested in sexual relationships with anyone (although many asexual people can have romantic interest in people, they don't have sexual interest)
Not sure...: self-explanatory... you're not sure who you are interested in sexual relationships with

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:44 pm

Very much a lesbian, but comfortable enough in my sexuality to admit when a guy is hot. ^_~

The funny thing about it is that the only website I've ever seen that addresses the issue says that it's incredibly rare for there to be gay Aspies, but the few that I've run into online all seem to have been so. o.o;

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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:44 am

I'm pretty sure that it's becuase of Asperger's that I'm asexual. I feel no need for a relationship of any kind from either sex. I've never had a crush, never had a date, never felt any feelings as far as romance is concerned. Who knows? Maybe I'm just weird as everyone I've met who knows that seems to think I am. I can't really say, since I've never known it any other way.

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:45 am

As it happens, asexual. I honestly don't care about sex (or romantic relationships, for that matter). I've never met another asexual Aspie, but then I haven't actually MET that many other Aspies.

EDIT: And now I must eat my words. With chocolate sauce!

Nice to meet you, Retasha. sweatdrop

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Retasha

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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:12 am

Sola Catella

As it happens, asexual. I honestly don't care about sex (or romantic relationships, for that matter). I've never met another asexual Aspie, but then I haven't actually MET that many other Aspies.

EDIT: And now I must eat my words. With chocolate sauce!

Nice to meet you, Retasha. sweatdrop

Ditto. It's nice to know I'm not the only one, it truly is! biggrin

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:21 am

Retasha

Sola Catella

As it happens, asexual. I honestly don't care about sex (or romantic relationships, for that matter). I've never met another asexual Aspie, but then I haven't actually MET that many other Aspies.

EDIT: And now I must eat my words. With chocolate sauce!

Nice to meet you, Retasha. sweatdrop

Ditto. It's nice to know I'm not the only one, it truly is! biggrin

Indeed. Actually, I know another asexual who's been my friend for several years whom I mildly suspect of having AS. She's so close in personality to me it's scary. We refer to eachother as 'the clones,' not because we look alike, but because we act, sound, and speak/type very similarly (we live in different states, but we have talked through voice conversations and recordings of her voice have been mistaken for mine and vice versa). We were even born all of ten days apart, which is mildly creepy.

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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:33 pm

Retasha

I'm pretty sure that it's becuase of Asperger's that I'm asexual. I feel no need for a relationship of any kind from either sex. I've never had a crush, never had a date, never felt any feelings as far as romance is concerned. Who knows? Maybe I'm just weird as everyone I've met who knows that seems to think I am. I can't really say, since I've never known it any other way.

Hm. I'm the exact opposite. Every so often I get really depressed because I'm not in a serious relationship, because I have no one to devote myself to. I see some couples (not all, some, and when I say "some" I mean "maybe 2 couples") that really go together, and both have risen above the "teenage lust stage," I become terribly envious.

It's not unusual, though. I mean, every girl that's as weird as me is almost always racked with issues out the wazoo, which includes the inability to have a serious relationship.

Ah well, one day...

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:25 am

Straight, oddly enough, apparently. I really don't think having this disorder as they call it affects your sexual preferences. Sadly, though, I'm single again and this guy has been checking me out at school.

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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:52 am

I havn't a clue. No, Seriously. I really don't know what I am. All I know is that I'm probably not gay.

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:03 pm

Squall_the_Stampede

Straight, oddly enough, apparently. I really don't think having this disorder as they call it affects your sexual preferences. Sadly, though, I'm single again and this guy has been checking me out at school.

As far as anyone can tell, it doesn't. I think that SunflowerGoddess was just curious.

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Cautha

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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:48 pm

Notedly bisexual!

It's not that I go out of my way for relationships.... I just often find myself right in the lap of one, one way or another.

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:31 pm

I am very much straight. I am always attracted to members of the opposite gender.

Though I don't really care about transexuals. I'd find myself quite open to the possiblity of being with an MtF. Not because he'd be a transexual, but just because he'd be a man to me. Screw his birthright.

I get depressed when I'm not in a relationship. I actually think more often than not I go around harassing people into dating me.

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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:24 pm

Not sure. Never really will be.

However, I'm learning toward answering "bi," because I've been attracted to both males AND females... just that I've only ever had a relationship with a guy.

And really, I probably never will have a relationship with a chick, for two very good reasons. First, I tend to like girls who are WAY too much like me, and second, I think I probably like (sex with) guys a bit too much.