Busted!

[pargoletta]

From Cracked: 6 Weird Ways the World Looks Different When You're Asexual. . . yup. Pretty much. Some of this has happened in my own life, including an unfortunate encounter with a gynecologist who resembled my hated sixth-grade teacher in more ways than just the physical. (The sixth-grade teacher was a woman who I think became a teacher not

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[hyarrowen]

Gynaecologists can be the absolute end. But I'm sorry you've had the crap in other walks of life too.

As for rental: that's just beyond bizarre. "Are you a smoker" is a question I can see people being concerned about: and about 500 other ones before "are you asexual?"

[pargoletta]

It actually hasn't been that much crap. I'd call it more "minor annoyances," along with having to explain to one friend who does not actually live in the real world that, no, broadly hinting about how I'll find myself a nice husband one of these days isn't actually going to either make that happen or make me want it to happen. The combination of hanging out with the theater geeks throughout high school and college and then moving to a completely different city after college made things comparatively pretty easy. After a surprisingly short while, you grow up enough that no one really cares who you are or are not sleeping with.

Potential landlords have asked me for credit checks and about pets and smoking and my occasional tendency to have loud hymn singings. Sex never really came up. (Of course, once the loud hymn singings enter the conversation, there's no good way to work the conversation around to sex.)

[hyarrowen]

Good grief, nice husbands are a rare commodity at the best of times, let alone for someone who is uninterested. Shacking up with someone who is not quite as nice as they might be is really bloody dangerous and not to be pushed on anyone, wtf is this person thinking.

once the loud hymn singings enter the conversation, there's no good way to work the conversation around to sex
I can see how that might be the case!!!

[pargoletta]

wtf is this person thinking

An excellent question that tends to consume much of the time that one might spend with her. Basically, she's just extremely sheltered and doesn't quite live in the real world. Thus, there are some things that you'd think would be basic human knowledge that you have to explain to her very very carefully.

But, for all that she's really weird, she's a really good friend, and I always like hanging out with her. Even when I have to explain how the world works.