They can, it really depends. Asexuals can get nervous around crushes or just people they find attractive. It just depends on the person, asexual is a veeery broad spectrum and it's you who gets to chose if that label identifies you, nobody else has to validate if the term suits you.
I worry that paying attention/compliment to someone being aesthetically good looking will be taken as a sxual interest when it isn’t. I’m as sxually interested in them as I am a cute cat or a pretty flower, which I also smile at seeing.
So I’m a bit more hesitant to smile at the pretty human than I am smiling at the pretty kitty or pretty flower.
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Seigest@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 2y
I do but I also am also autistic. So I'm awkward around everyone regardless.
rockettaco37@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Yeah... it makes social situations pretty difficult.
krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 2y
They can, it really depends. Asexuals can get nervous around crushes or just people they find attractive. It just depends on the person, asexual is a veeery broad spectrum and it's you who gets to chose if that label identifies you, nobody else has to validate if the term suits you.
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Personally, only because of social stigma.
I worry that paying attention/compliment to someone being aesthetically good looking will be taken as a sxual interest when it isn’t. I’m as sxually interested in them as I am a cute cat or a pretty flower, which I also smile at seeing.
So I’m a bit more hesitant to smile at the pretty human than I am smiling at the pretty kitty or pretty flower.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
I personally don't but I would get awkward if someone was attracted to me
joel1974@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Seigest@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 2y
Sexual attraction isn't the only kind of attraction.
Borimino@feddit.dk · 15 pts · 2y
There are (at least) 3 types of attraction: Sexual, romantic and aesthetic
used_name@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y