MONDRO

I’m a 24-year-old female. I’m asexual.

I didn’t know about this, about myself until I was 19. I was introduced to the internet late, so didn’t know before that. So for a long time, I thought that maybe there was something that was wrong with me. I didn’t feel anything for anyone and my friends always told me that I was weird for being like that. They called me a Tom Boy & most of the time I laughed it off too. It wasn’t until I was 20 when I started to learn about myself and realized that I’m asexual.

It has been a few years now. And I only told my best friend about this. She said that I only think like this cause I haven’t met the right person/I haven’t ‘done it yet. And because of this, I can’t even think about telling this to my parents. If someone in their twenties thinks that it is just a phase, how are my parents who lived in that mentality will think anything different?

I’m getting a lot of pressure from my family – mostly aunts and cousins – about getting married. And it is getting harder and harder to push them off. Even my parents who never said anything about this are trying to talk to me about this.

I don’t know how to talk to them about it. I don’t know if talking will make any difference.

Source: BAH ( Bangladesh Against Homophobia)