Does No One Bot Hunt Over Here In The Trans Guy Tag Or Is It Just Somehow Even Worse Than The Asexual

does no one bot hunt over here in the trans guy tag or is it just somehow even worse than the asexual tag because wtf

here I am just trying to find relatable experiences and instead it’s full of bots and inappropriate material 😭

my new life motto

hell yeah

okay I’m just getting towards the end of s2 but I lurk enough in the tag to know there are some kind of overarching entity things called The Fears-

is this related to the TMA tagline, “make your statement, face your fear”??? so, every single statement that has to be recorded connects to one of them, even the more one-off ‘monster of the week’ ones??

idk it could be coincidence but the thought struck me at 4 in the morning when I couldn’t sleep so naturally was thinking about this show

having a category 5 trichotillomania moment. cant fall asleep because my eyelashes are Wrong

First time listening to the Magnus Archives has me like

I was homeschooled and didn’t have much media/internet access until I was 11 and went to high school so it never came up then. Then, I developed my first crush on someone in my class, but we were a same-sex school and I hadn’t quite hit gender crisis yet since I hadn’t really hit puberty. I thought I was bi at first, then I realised I liked guys as well and so thought I was pan. In the span of the following year I confessed and got rejected, had some weird unhealthy obsession phase that eventually made me realise I wasn’t actually crushing on this person, hit Gender Crisis and it kind of became this whole mess. Then I realised I didn’t actually want to be in a relationship with a girl, and actually I’d never wanted to be in a sexual relationship with anyone — this was helped by my younger sibling starting to come into the time of being physically attracted to people and how much that contrasted with how I felt. Add in the fact that the whole concept of sex really grossed me out, and I eventually landed where I am now, as a gay, sex-repulsed asexual trans dude :)

It took a long time to figure everything out and I went through several different labels — bi, pan, demi and panromantic — probably in part because even the concept of people being LGBTQ+ was new to me, and I have always struggled with figuring out what it is I’m feeling (I’m 95% certain this is alexithymia possibly associated with being autistic but I’m very much new to looking into that and am not diagnosed). But looking at people’s experiences and comparing that to how I felt really helped.

@ asexuals, how did you guys figure out you were asexual?