![]() ![]() "And now, sometimes I'll say, 'I'm asexual,' and I'm not the first person the person has heard of or met." "If I came out as asexual to someone, almost every time there would be a 30 to 40 minute education session of what that is and why I'm not lying or faking or confused or sick," she says. ![]() Decker credits the organization, which launched in 2001, for naming and raising awareness of what she'd been experiencing all along. Today, Decker has a name for it: asexuality, which describes people who don't "experience sexual attraction," according to the Asexual Visibility & Education Network. "I'm coming into my identity, and still isn't part of it." "I'm past being a teenager," she thought. ![]() It wasn't until Decker reached college that she realized her sexual indifference toward others wasn't going anywhere. "I didn't find anything I was looking for," she says. Although she did date a few people in high school, no one gave her butterflies. "I was kind of used to people thinking I was weird," says Decker, now a 37-year-old writer in Tampa, Florida. So when she started noticing her middle and high school peers asking each other out, it suited that she wasn't interested in joining them. ![]() As a kid, Julie Sondra Decker filled her days with reading, writing, singing and drawing - usually opting for creative pursuits over social ones. ![]()
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