How I found out that I am asexual — and that it’s totally OK

I have been aware of certain things since I am a teenager, but I never had appropriate terms to describe certain emotions I was feeling or certain thoughts I was thinking. It helped me a lot going to a psychiatrist when I was around the age of 17. That was also the first time I realized it is important for people to have terms for certain things to grasp them and to make them understandable and manageable. Especially when you feel, that they have a bad effect on your daily life, managing certain feelings is important.

Using terms for definition

Naming my first mental conditions with or “adjustment disorder” or “self injury” made me look up these terms and also made me find therapy, started the healing process and made me find other people suffering from the same conditions.

My mental health is stable these days, because I have learned how to cope with it. When the ghosts who were nameless in the past, but have names now come back to haunt me I am prepared.

am talking about terms and naming, because I found the term “asexual” which seems to be part of the LGBT+ community. Of course I have heard of it before. However, I never thought it would be a terminology for people who define themselves as part of a sexual minority.