Asexuality : A possible background and how it relates to autism and neurodiversity

For typical people previous results have found that a few percent identify as asexual based on having no sexual attraction to anybody and this was confirmed for typical people in the study. For neurodiverse people, it was hypothesized that the primary reason for self-identifying as asexual was dislike or disgust for typical relationship preferences, and in particular for sexual penetration. This was confirmed with correlations and mediation analysis in the study. Neurodiverse females had the highest rates of identifying as asexual, with less than half of them answering “no” to a question about being asexual. Asexual self-identification didn't cluster with sexual orientation. Disgust for sexual intercourse and asexual self-identification as a teenager mediated problems with sexual intimacy later in life.