{"id":129934,"date":"2015-10-26T04:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T04:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/26\/queer-revolution-asexuality-is-officially-not-a\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T23:56:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T23:56:18","slug":"queer-revolution-asexuality-is-officially-not-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/26\/queer-revolution-asexuality-is-officially-not-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-129934 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/26\/queer-revolution-asexuality-is-officially-not-a\/attachment\/129935\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwibt33Epw1r2i93to1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwibt33Epw1r2i93to1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwibt33Epw1r2i93to1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/26\/queer-revolution-asexuality-is-officially-not-a\/attachment\/129936\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwibt33Epw1r2i93to2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwibt33Epw1r2i93to2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nwibt33Epw1r2i93to2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/queer-revolution.tumblr.com\/post\/131835282691\" target=\"_blank\">queer-revolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Asexuality is OFFICIALLY not a disorder, according to the APA.<\/h2>\n<p>The images above are from the DSM-5, which is the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association\u2019s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.\u00a0 The DSM-5 is a really important book.\u00a0 It is used by doctors and mental health care providers around the world to diagnose mental disorders.<\/p>\n<p>The DSM-5 explicitly and clearly recognizes asexuality, and says that if a person is asexual, that they should not be diagnosed with Female Sexual Interest\/Arousal Disorder or Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.<\/p>\n<p>This book says that you are valid, your feelings are real, and that you do not have a disorder because you feel this way.<\/p>\n<h2>Anyone who claims otherwise is wrong.<\/h2>\n<p>They do not know what they are talking about.\u00a0 You can point them at this book as proof that they are wrong.<\/p>\n<p><i>Full Reference:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>On page 434, in the section on Female Sexual Interest\/Arousal Disorder (302.72), at the end of the \u201cDiagnostic Features\u201d, it reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><i>If a lifelong lack of sexual desire is better explained by one\u2019s self-identification as \u201casexual\u201d, then a diagnosis of female sexual interest\/arousal disorder would not be made.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On page 443, in the section on Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (302.71), at the end of the \u201cDifferential Diagnosis\u201d, it reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><i>If the man\u2019s low desire is explained by self-identification as an asexual, then a diagnosis of male hypoactive sexual desire disorder is not made.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>queer-revolution: Asexuality is OFFICIALLY not a disorder, according to the APA. The images above are from the DSM-5, which is the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association\u2019s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.\u00a0 The DSM-5 is a really important book.\u00a0 It is used by doctors and mental health care providers around the world &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/26\/queer-revolution-asexuality-is-officially-not-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1928,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129937,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129934\/revisions\/129937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}