A personal announcement, emphatic thank-you, and cheers to Fedora.

I come from a very bible-belt, small town (Michigan), and I have to say your message would really resonate there. In my town, where the "we don't talk about this" prevails 90% of the time, and the "those people are going to hell" the other 10, would be the only messages heard by kids..."it gets better" might follow a very similar path to yours. I'm so glad I got to watch this. And I have to say: very direct, personal, and honest. Great.

Thank you for posting this, Mike.

You look great in HD, Mike

GJ, Mike.

Sally too EVENTUALLY.

Great video, Mike. BTW, has your Aunt discovered YouTube, yet?

BTW, I know this thread is about sexuality, but in this video you said one of the truest things ever. That as soon as you are honest about how you are it immediately gets better. I found this to be the case when I decided to stop hiding be an atheist and other times in my life. I can't imagine the weight being lifted and how it felt in your case. Great video again. And cool thing to translate it into Russian.

Thank you Mike.

DSGamer wrote:

Great video, Mike. BTW, has your Aunt discovered YouTube, yet? :)

My 96 year old aunt? Let me tell you about Aunt Mary. She didn't like the "new" tube TVs (Yes, she still has a CRT TV), so she had one of her nephews hollow out her old console TV (for those of you unaware, that's what this is called) and put one of these inside it.

An internet connection is not likely to enter that home ever, let alone a computer.

Not that I actually care. I'm publicly out everywhere else I am public on the internet. If you google my real name, you'll find me.

Thanks for making that vid mike, I'm glad to see someone talking more about the process of coming out to one's self and self-acceptance.

:') *sniffle* Thanks, Mike. That was wonderful.

Damn dude, that's a beautiful message, not just for the gay stuff but about living your life truthfully and all that. Good luck : )

Mex wrote:

Damn dude, that's a beautiful message, not just for the gay stuff but about living your life truthfully and all that. Good luck : )

Yep. It's a special thing when you find yourself mentally ticking boxes about your own life when someone is talking about a specific situation so foreign to you.

Aww, Michael, you got me right in the feels :')

At the moment, unlisted. SallyNasty is going to help with some Russian translations.

Would appreciate any input anyone has. I'm never sure I'm doing things right.

Final Version below.

Alright, the final version is out there, and listed, ready to be shared. Still waiting on SallyNasty to finish the translation, but he'll be done soon.

Here it is:

http://goo.gl/i8Ui7f

NSMike wrote:

Alright, the final version is out there, and listed, ready to be shared. Still waiting on SallyNasty to finish the translation, but he'll be done soon.

Here it is:

http://goo.gl/i8Ui7f

That is awesome.

I may have gotten choked up. Good job!

Nice job Sally

I can not compliment NSmike because it is against my nature

So I met up with some other out asexuals in meat-space and it really seemed to do some good for me, kind of clicking the reality that 'there really are others!' in a way that internet interactions hadn't quite managed.

It probably helps that they were also pretty cool people who I'd have hung out with anyway but having that shared experience made more tangible seems to have had some interesting and positive psychological effects.

The downside is I may soon be moving somewhere with a much smaller population which in turn means finding like-minded or common-experience people becomes much less probable but at least I managed to do it once.

That is a fantastic video, Mike. Very touching.

Speaking of Asexuality Awareness Week, people on reddit have been making these:
http://m.imgur.com/a/jdMlY

I can completely agree that it helps to meet other asexuals. Doing that has certainly helped me, and to meet others through the GSA at my university. And some of my newer tumblr friends have mentioned they're aces when we've started to talk more candidly. Actually, at our last club meeting I sort of helped explain asexuality so that people would understand it and be more aware. For some it's certainly a hard concept to grasp.

Also Krev, Happy Asexuality Awareness Week!

NSMike wrote:

Speaking of Asexuality Awareness Week, people on reddit have been making these:
http://m.imgur.com/a/jdMlY

Also along the lines of Asexuality Awareness Week I'd like to share Dominique Mosbergen's six part series on asexuality; found here.

She does a fairly good job of covering a lot of ground there.

Thanks. That's a cool set of articles.

Just thought I'd share something from me.

Bravo DK, thank you for sharing. Hopefully in time more of us will be able to share our experiences openly without the usual denial/bs/etc we tend to get.

Dominic Knight wrote:

Just thought I'd share something from me.

Cool, cool cool cool.

NSMike wrote:

Alright, the final version is out there, and listed, ready to be shared. Still waiting on SallyNasty to finish the translation, but he'll be done soon.

Here it is:

http://goo.gl/i8Ui7f

I finally got around to watching that. That was very powerful, and I'm impressed. Huge props and I don't doubt that it'll make a difference however small or big that difference is.

Good video, DK. By the way, as someone who has been married for 15 years the best things in a relationship *are* the things you talked about. Being friends, going places together, talking, spending time doing random things, experiencing life, etc.

Dk, I haven't seen you in a few years I think, omg you're so growed up!