Growing up, Jordan Busits never understood the appeal of romantic comedies like her friends did. When she was in middle school and a classmate asked to be her boyfriend, she recoiled and felt a “visceral” aversion.
Once she hit puberty, she thought she would start developing crushes or getting the hots for her peers. “I was raised to believe that eventually, hormones will hit you, and you’ll get attracted to boys or girls, but it just never came,” she told Uncloseted Media.
As time passed, Busits became increasingly confused. “What’s wrong with me?” she would wonder. It wasn’t until she was 17 and voiced her frustrations in her high school lunchroom that a friend suggested she may be asexual.
Although Busits had never heard of the term, she immediately felt it encapsulated her experience.
Now 27, Busits…