Not sure exactly how to classify the letter from the parent of the 11-year-old self-id'd asexual:https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/10/girlfriends-porn-type-difference-advice.html …
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I had a pre-teen foster kid who declared they were asexual. Did I think that was going to be permanent? Nah. Easy enough to affirm and support them anyway, and if I'm wrong I won't have to apologize for not having done so.
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I think it's fine for people's identities to change, including people who are kids! I also think there's something potentially upsetting to 11-year-olds about presenting being a typical 11-year-old as somehow connected to being an atypical adult.
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In the case of my kid they were already a gender dysphoric autistic youth, so adding another queer-ish identity a bit prematurely made a lot of sense. It's really the preteen experience to suddenly feel weird and different, and to resist being told how normal that is, right?
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