Protect him
What he says at the end, about being comforted around his asexual friend because he doesn’t have to wonder if they want more, hit me hard. Because as a young girl I had mostly male friends, and now as an adult I have almost no friends because I just generally don’t mesh well with other women. And I would love love LOVE to have more guy friends. But every guy that has ever wanted to “hang out” since I left highschool has eventually revealed that they wanted MORE. And I don’t. And I think it has made me paranoid. Now when a guy asks to hang out I tell him right off the bat that I am not interested in anything romantic and likely never will be but I would love to be friends. And they always act all surprised at first. “What made you think that’s what I wanted? No, really, it’s not like that, I just want to be friends!” And invariably they either suddenly don’t want to hang out again after that or six months later they ask me out and are surprised and angry when I turn them down. I guess what I’m saying is I need an asexual bestie of my own.



















