According to a Facebook post shared by Autism Nottingham, nebulasexual is a sexuality that falls under the quoisexual umbrella. It describes someone who “cannot tell if they experience sexual attraction or not due to neurodivergency or intrusive thoughts/urges/images. One who is nebulasexual might want sex or a sexual relationship, but they do not know if they experience attraction.”
This makes nebulasexual different from being confused or questioning. Instead, it acknowledges a constant, ongoing experience in which neurological differences blur the ability to define attraction in conventional terms.
People on the spectrum
“We aren’t broken, we just experience attraction in a different way due to our disorders,” writes one Redditor in a forum that’s become a central space for discussing nebulasexuality.
Responding to the thread, another netizen writes, “I’ve made posts on LGBT subreddits asking because I literally cannot tell. I get just get feelings, and I don’t know what they mean! Also, I am neurodivergent, so that checks out. I’m definitely nebulasexual. New label time!”
