Before I go into the main point of the story, a little background: today at work, Ellis didn't show up for his shift and then called and said he wasn't coming in today because he only wants to work weekends. He's gonna quit soon and everyone's pretty bummed about it.

Okay, so I'm washing my hands, and Jesse comes up to me and goes, "This is getting really weird..."

And I'm like, "Why?"

Jesse: "Ellis and I are talking."

Now, if you're up-to-date with "talking" as a term, that basically means that you're in a relationship without being in an official relationship. With people who aren't conservative, when someone says they're "talking", they're likely sleeping with each other and everything in between without calling each other boyfriend/girlfriend.

I know that... but at the same time, I have a really bad habit of not catching the sexual or even romantic meanings behind conversations or actions.

So, completely clueless to the sub-context of what she's telling me in that moment, I respond, "About what?"

Jesse: "... we're, like, talking."

Me: "... what's he saying? Is he quitting?"

Jesse: "No, we're, you know... talking."

Me: "...

...

...

OH"

I can't even tell you how embarrassed I was. Like, how stupid can you sound? It was SOOOO obvious what she meant and I literally completely missed what she was actually saying.

I blame this indirectly on my greysexuality.

Indirectly because it's not literally my sexuality that makes me ignorant in these situation. It's the lack of experience from being in those situations myself BECAUSE I don't feel attraction that makes me ignorant to these types of things.

Literally, I only catch on to sexual innuendos if I make them myself. Otherwise, I either don't catch on immediately, or I have to have it explained to me.

I also can't tell if people like me and/or are flirting with me.

For example, a good friend of mine was talking to me, and left, and my friends all rushed up to me and were like, "oh my God he totally likes you."

And I'm like, "What, him? No no, he's just my friend."

And they were like, "Okay... that's how you feel. But I don't think he does." And they went and pointed out all the ways he had been flirting with me for the past month.

THE PAST MONTH

The boy practically held my hand at one point and I had not realized he liked me because I didn't feel anything, and basically was ignorant to the fact that other people are capable of feeling attraction. Everything he had done to flirt with me at that point, I thought was platonic.

In conclusion, though it's not directly, my sexuality... has literally made me stupid.