dontbelasagnax:

Mentioned to my mom I’m asexual a couple months ago and today…. we got into the car and she hit me with, “So you use they/them pronouns now?”

I went, “What. no. she/her.”

“How does that work? With she/her/hers and they/them?”

I stared at her. “What are you talking about?”

“Well you came out as-” and I said, “I’m asexual.”

She replied, “Like an amoeba, I know.”

“Oh. My god. No. Mom. It doesn’t- it’s not the asexual you learned about in biology. I didn’t come out as a single celled organism.”

With heavy relief, she said “Oh, it has a different meaning?”

“Yes, mom.”

hahaaaa

Every child is created as a single celled organism at conception! You can’t just change your body and say you’re something else!

… seriously tho. I wonder if this was a case of “mixing up ‘asexual’ and 'agender,’ hence the assumption of they-them pronouns, and just using 'like an amoeba’ as a weird example of something that also doesn’t have a gender”

Or if it was actually “assuming you’re amoeba-kin and trying to be supportive”