im autosexual and while i experience attraction im perfectly content remaining in just the relationship with myself. apparently im a selfish “narcissist” (yuck) for this according to my counsellor 🤷
This is amatonormativity and ableism. Your counselor shouldn't be misusing medical terminology nor judging your harmless orientation.
Autospecs are not inherently narcissistic, and narcissistic =/= egotistic.*
Self-attraction does not make you selfish or self-centered. That would imply that attraction = obsession, which is not the case. If a person is attracted to someone else, that is not immediately deemed an obsession - so why would attraction to oneself immediately dictate an obsession?
My headmate, Ally, has made a more in depth post [link] about faer own experience being autorose + some articles about other autospecs, if anyone is curious to read it.
*(Narcissists are people with narcissistic personality disorder, who either center themselves because they believe nobody else will prioritize them and/or attempt to be the greatest at tasks because they crave approval/praise due to low self esteem/low self worth.
And before anyone brings up the myth of Narcissus, my system has already made a post on this matter here [link.])













