swankivy:

lizziegoneastray:

shaolina:

moarhelenplz:

raumlet:

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They have some interesting superiority complexes about teens. What, did they just turn 20? Dawww.

Way to keep clutching at those straws… Nevermind I’m 25 years old. 

22 here, and living on my own in a big city.  So y’know.

Self-sufficient aromantic asexual.  Age 34.  Whee, I’m so ancient that I’m almost to the point that people can stop telling me I’m a “stupid questioning teenager” and start blaming my asexuality on early menopause!  (And considering I still get carded for Stuff Grown-Ups Do, I still get the “Whatever, you’ll change when you grow up” comment just as often as younger people do.)

‘Course, the thing I hate about “Well, not me, I’m old enough, I’m legit” is that I knew I was asexual when I was 15, too.  All the mocking young asexuals deal with is really frigging ridiculous.  If straight kids can know they’re straight as soon as they experience cross-sex attraction and nobody asks them to justify it, there’s no reason to slap a double standard on gay people or asexuals.  We’re repeatedly asked if we’re sure or if we’re really old enough to know what we feel, and that teaches us over and over again that we’re not qualified to interpret our own feelings.  Great lesson.  I know asexuality looks like a blank space from the outside–a “not yet” rather than a “not at all”–but seriously, people should think about what they’re saying/doing when they mock young people who feel they’re asexual. Regardless of whether they turn out to not be asexual, attacking them for not being old enough to “know” that yet is completely non-constructive.