Being An Asexual History Geek
Image description: Although the movie 1776 does not feature into today's post topic, it is influential to my love of history, which is the focus of today's post topic, so it kind of works, especially this weekend (happy belated 4th of July). Today I'm exploring what it means to me to be both aspec and a history nerd, from looking for aspec people in history to the very idea of how these things can exist side by side. Those closest to me know that the best job I ever had was when I worked as a tour guide in my hometown for two and a half years. Before I moved out of state, I was primarily based out of a museum housed in my town’s oldest remaining building, which dated from the mid-1700s, and I was responsible for giving guests an overview history of our town’s unique origins. Even those guests who had lived in the region all their lives were often surprised as I relayed to them the story of our Moravian founders – a group of religious missionaries who came from Moravia in ...
