{"id":68795,"date":"2019-12-28T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/68795"},"modified":"2019-12-28T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T17:00:45","slug":"letters-to-an-asexual-59-youre-not-qualified-to-discuss-asexuality-youre-not-a-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/68795","title":{"rendered":"Letters to an Asexual #59 (“You’re not qualified to discuss asexuality. You’re not a scientist!”)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Letters to an Asexual #59 (&quot;You&#039;re not qualified to discuss asexuality. You&#039;re not a scientist!&quot;)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qYJQy57SWmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>This is #59 of a series in which I read correspondence between me and people who have questions, comments, or–more often–misconceptions about asexuality.\n\nThis Letter is a series of comments left on an article I had published in Psychology Today. The commenter attacked my credibility, kept asking the magazine to remove me for being unqualified (as if they were reading the comments), made a bunch of really ignorant comments about Tumblr and liberals and SJWs, and accused me of having a known history of mental illness, depression, self harm, and other issues I . . . literally have never had.\n\nThe two articles I’ve written for Psychology Today are linked below:\n\n“Asexuality and the Health Professional”:\nhttps:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-invisible-orientation\/201501\/asexuality-and-the-health-professional\n\n“Asexuality is Not a Diagnosis”\nhttps:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-invisible-orientation\/201503\/asexuality-is-not-diagnosis\n\n(This second one is the one that JS wrote these comments on.)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is #59 of a series in which I read correspondence between me and people who have questions, comments, or–more often–misconceptions about asexuality. This Letter is a series of comments left on an article I had published in Psychology Today. The commenter attacked my credibility, kept asking the magazine to remove me for being unqualified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/68795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letters to an Asexual #59 (“You’re not qualified to discuss asexuality. 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