I'm not really sure what switched, to be honest. I wouldn't say it was like an immediate switch into "sweet, I like dudes again", but I slowly started finding myself becoming sexually attracted again to people, and then it built back up from there.

Super weird state of mind to be in though.

From my understanding, there is no "straight, gay, or bi asexual"? Since asexuality is the lack of sexuality/low sexual desires. I've never heard asexuals that call themselves straight asexual or the like. And if we go by your definition, then the term that I often hear is heteroromantic asexual or biromantic or homoromantic. That's why I used the LGBT comparisons. I can see why you might feel upset, but that's just how I see it. Most asexuals that I've met online are really mostly just homosexuals or other sexuality groups but they're just not as sexually active as the average person.

Heteroromantic asexual = straight.

Biromantic asexual = LGB

Panromantic asexual = LGB

Homoromantic asexual = LGB

Aromantic asexual = Neither.

You didn't upset me. Just letting you know. It's like saying you've met French people, yet never met an Italian person so you're unsure if Italians exist, sis.

Hmmm never have only see it here on atrl and online stuff I read lol.

what?

I feel this. I have always identified as gay but sometimes I think asexual would fit too.

I mean... what's funny or of-note?

Most people don't compartmentalize their attractions into two. As a gay man (or a "homoromantic/homosexual") my romantic attraction is intrinsically linked to my sexual attraction. I am sexually attracted to men and romantically attracted to men, and my life is rooted around men as a man, so they intertwine. I couldn't seperate them in my mind.

For some people, they just... don't overlap. They don't have both. One type of attraction is missing. For a variety of reasons. There's also aromantic people. And some folks who don't possess any type of attraction. So they, mostly, invented a set of terminology to articulate their identity and how they feel.

I'm sure for a straight woman who was sexually abused or molested as a child, and is now sex-repulsed and has been sex-repulsed for most of her life, identity markers like "heteroromantic asexual" are helpful in letting people know what her attraction is - she's a woman who cannot or doesn't experience sexual attraction, but still does feel romantically attracted to men and what's to be with men.