Post university around age 24 . Friend found out post dating spree experience that she ' s asexual and aromatic . Her choice of partners were also incredibly questionable , which made me question whether it was suitable for her to date at all . Her I guess I ' m just not like normal people where they can just tell if they want to sleep with someone . Me . wait that ' s a thing ? I also didn ' t know sexual relationship was normally expected while dating until post uni at age 22 . I thought that was a choice . To be fair , my mother culture , in combination with religious and class influences , see romance much further apart from sex , sex as material need , and sex as a private matter . So asexuality isn ' t very prominently weird until I was in North America . Though most people don ' t know it exists either back home . Still , I never thought it was of particular note .