I’m asexual too. Never got into the whole teen crush thing. But that was decades ago, and asexual wasn’t a thing, homosexuality was barely a thing. I felt pressured into dating and getting married. Sex was awful but I did get. A daughter out of it. Even now at 66 I have no interest when the others talk of who’s hot and etc. but I don’t say anything for precisely the same reason. People can’t believe someone is not interested in sex. It’s oh you’ve just not found your match.