asexuality - does anyone else feel this way?

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i thought i was (and came out) as being bisexual almost 2 years ago... and i thought that i was beacuse i didn't like guys more than girls or vice versa, but wasn't really attracted to eaither on a sexual level. i didn't know there was such a think as asexuality. i still consiter myself bisexual because i could look at either a guy or a girl and think that they "look good" but also i consiter myself asexual beacuse i have no intrest what so ever in dating or sex or anything like that.
does anyone else on the spectrum feel this way, or is this not related to that at all?

Note that some drugs or medications, including anti-depressants, kill feelings of sexuality.

So, if you are taking any drugs/medications, consider the possibility that your feeling of asexuality is drug-induced and not your natural/normal state.

On the other hand, maybe asexuality IS your normal state. But consider whether drugs/medication are affecting you.

i am on several medicines, but these feelings occured way before i was ever on them. i came out almost 2 years ago to other people, but for about 6 years before that i struggled inside with not knowing what was going on. i knew i was "different" just didn't understand what that meant.
it's something i very certin of, not something i am questioning any longer... the only questions i have about it are weather or not other people on the spectrum feel this way/if it's related to it

Sometimes.

I don't kno wmuch about my sexuality, sometimes i'm attracted to men and women, sometimes one or the other, sometimes none.

I'm, certainly not Asexual in that I dont have sexual urges, but I certainly have no interest in romantic relations.

I stay away from Sexual liasons for the reason that its just to complicated and messy. No matter what you do, hearts get involved. Yuck.

Same thing here, so you're not alone. I thought I was leaning towards bisexuality in school too, simply because I found men and women attractive. In actuality, my sexual interest towards wither were very low and not really enough to make any inference about my sexuality.

Nowadays I don't think I'm bisexual, or if I am I lean more towards being interested in women. But still, I am not very interested in either and that is something I'm quite comfortable with. However I wouldn't call myself asexual, because I do have certain urges but they don't really connect with the idea of male or female attractiveness, in my head. They are two disparate concepts which I can deal with completely seperately from each other.

I think also I am not attracted to the idea of relationships and perhaps this is because people with AS are supposed to have some sort of 'extended adolescence' (read this somewhere). Maybe the desire for relationships is something that will come in time for me, and for you (I am 20 this year).

I launched a poll abt asexuality some weeks ago and abt 20% voted that they r asexuals .... I think autism is related to asexuality as there s many articles and studies on the net talk abt this subj

I'd love to be asexual. Unfortunately my hormones have different plans.

I'm definitely NOT asexual, quite the opposite.

Yep, I'm asexual, or very close to it. Never had any sex drive. I'm also a member of AVEN (www.asexuality.org) and it seems like a large percentage of the people there are on the autistic spectrum somewhere.

Well, I feel that I'm asexual, but not by choice.

Since I have not went out on many dates and have only had one relationship, I haven't had very many opportunities to be sexual.

Considering that 99.9% of women/girls consider me an object of ridicule, I have had no choice but to be asexual.