Personal Narrative: A Binary Concept Affecting My Identity

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I often think about the issue since I do not think I fit to the "socially accepted" binary concept and it definitely affects my identity.
I regard myself as heterosexual and graysexual, which means that I am straight and rarely experience sexual attraction compared to "ordinary" people. I did not know the term until my LGBT friends told me that I may be asexual, those who do experience sexual attraction toward individuals of any gender at all, and after searching on the terms, I figured out that I can be categorised as graysexual. To simply put, I occasionally sexually attracted to female and enjoy having sex (only) with female time to time, but sex is not something important in my life and I can live without. No offence but from my point of

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