"No, it doesn't.  I'm sorry.  Civilization does try very hard not to send asexuals a message that they need to be anything other than they are.  But a lot of asexuals themselves still feel like they got a raw deal from biology, and if that's the way you feel, well, there are all these cases where somebody thought they were asexual for years and then it turns out that they started being able to feel attraction to this one person they eventually met or got to know well enough.  It's not even all that rare.  Which means that for the rest of the asexuals, if they don't want to be what they are, they can never be sure.  It's one of the more genuinely awful fates in dath ilan, that a pretty significant chunk of the population gets handed, that Civilization hasn't been able to fix.  There's been a massive search for drugs that will induce sexual desire in asexuals, not because it's wrong to be asexual, but because there's so many of them who do say for themselves that's not what they want to be and are offering huge drug bounties on it.  As of when I left Civilization, all the drugs they'd ever found weren't very good and had large side effects."

"On the plus side, from my perspective - because I don't actually want to be in a pattern like that - an asexual who isn't sure she's asexual, who doesn't want to be asexual, who might eventually end up attracted to the protagonist and not have to be asexual anymore, is some degree of evidence against that pattern holding here.  Actually fairly strong evidence against it holding, at least in this particular case.  Because, like, that is a Problematic Message they'd never put in there, flaming shit would that end up in the Ill-Advised Consumer Goods store."

"Does that hold here?  I notice you were careful to say 'hypothetically' and so on."

"No, it doesn't.  I'm sorry.  People have looked hard for a test like that and not found it.  Civilization does try very hard not to send asexuals a message that they need to be anything other than they are.  But a lot of asexuals themselves still feel like they got a raw deal from biology, and if that's the way you feel, well, there are all these cases where somebody thought they were asexual for years and then it turns out that they started being able to feel attraction to this one person they eventually met or got to know well enough.  It's not even all that rare.  Which means that for the rest of the asexuals, if they don't want to be what they are, they can never be sure.  It's one of the more genuinely awful fates in dath ilan, that a pretty significant chunk of the population gets handed, that Civilization hasn't been able to fix.  There's been a massive search for drugs that will induce sexual desire in asexuals, not because it's wrong to be asexual, but because there's so many of them who do say for themselves that's not what they want to be and are offering huge drug bounties on it.  As of when I left Civilization, all the drugs they'd ever found weren't very good and had large side effects."

"On the plus side, from my perspective - because I don't actually want to be in a pattern like that - an asexual who isn't sure she's asexual, who doesn't want to be asexual, who might eventually end up attracted to the protagonist and not have to be asexual anymore, is some degree of evidence against that pattern holding here.  Actually fairly strong evidence against it holding, at least in this particular case.  Because, like, that is a Problematic Message they'd never put in there, flaming shit would that end up in the Ill-Advised Consumer Goods store."

"Does that hold here?  I notice you were careful to say 'hypothetically' and so on."

"No, it doesn't.  I'm sorry.  People have looked hard for a test like that and not found it.  Civilization does try very hard not to send asexuals a message that they need to be anything other than they are.  But a lot of asexuals themselves still feel like they got a raw deal from biology, and if that's the way you feel, well, there are all these cases where somebody thought they were asexual for years and then it turns out that they started being able to feel attraction to this one person they eventually met or got to know well enough.  It's not even all that rare.  Which means that for the rest of the asexuals, if they don't want to be what they are, they can never be sure."

"It's one of the more genuinely awful fates in dath ilan, that a pretty significant chunk of the population gets handed, that Civilization hasn't been able to fix.  There's been a massive search for drugs that will induce sexual desire in asexuals, not because it's wrong to be asexual, but because there's so many of them who do say for themselves that's not what they want to be and are offering huge drug bounties on it.  As of when I left Civilization, all the drugs they'd ever found weren't very good and had large side effects."

"On the plus side, from my perspective - because I don't actually want to be in a pattern like that - an asexual who isn't sure she's asexual, who doesn't want to be asexual, who might eventually end up attracted to the protagonist and not have to be asexual anymore, is some degree of evidence against that pattern holding here.  Actually fairly strong evidence against it holding, at least in this particular case.  Because, like, that is a Problematic Message they'd never put in there, flaming shit would that end up in the Ill-Advised Consumer Goods store."

"Does that hold here?  I notice you were careful to say 'hypothetically' and so on."