Identify as asexual because it's way easier to say that than it is to say yeah

I'm not interested in having sex with humans. I just like fictional characters

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Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm excited

Yeah, so we're gonna be speaking about something that to be honest

I've never heard of Joe's never heard of so we're really excited to dig into this topic of

Fictophilia

Can you just give us a definition of what that is sure? Yeah, so Fictophilia is

It's basically when a person feels love or

An emotion like that that you'd feel for a normal human being

But you feel that for a fictional character. It's so we dedicated to someone who isn't real

So

You have a

deeper connection than you would say like a

You know a regular person would to fictional characters and what way do you mean like in a like in a loving way as in a sexual way or is it like what kind of relationship?

It's kind of both um, I would say I would really define um my particular case as a definitely romantic um

I feel like I connect with this character um in a way that

Probably other people don't I I feel like I have

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