Acephobia

Acephobia, otherwise known as aphobia, is dislike or prejudice against asexuality and agender people or having negative feelings towards people on the asexual spectrum. The negativity ranges from person to person. Acephobia is commonly fueled by the common belief that asexual people are “scared of intimacy” or that they “have a mental disorder.“

Not only can heterosexual people be acephobic, but people inside the LGBT+ community can also be as well.

Asexuality is commonly misunderstood, even in the community. Some people believe people on the ace spectrum are "cold" and "unable to love," which is not true.

Casual Acephobia
Because asexuality is not well-known, it means that quite a lot of the acephobia one might see is very casual (in this context, casual means that it is not meant to degrade or insult the individual, but it does anyway; a product of misinformation). This can be seen in multiple ways:
 * Due to living in a hypersexualized and heteronormative society, where having sex and being straight are considered the "norm," people may be baffled and even question how it's possible for someone to even be asexual. They might deny it and say that all asexuals are "faking it", "begging for attention", "special snowflakes", or think that that asexuals simply can't find anyone to have sex with them and are just bitter about it.
 * Family members and friends may start pressuring or joking about how the asexual isn't interested in sex. Worse, they might pressure them to have sex or have children because "it's expected" of them.
 * Phrases like "but sex is natural" or "it's human nature" can be very harmful to asexual people, since they can make them feel alienated and alone.
 * Phrases like "but you're so attractive" and "you wouldn't have any trouble finding someone" sound like compliments, but asexuals often interpret them as "you're wasting your looks being yourself" (which is an equally harmful message).
 * When an asexual tells people about their sexuality, people might pity them because they think that they had a traumatic incident that "made" them that way, or that asexuals have a disease - when in reality, it is a sexuality just like being straight, gay, or bi, nothing more.

Myths

 * As mentioned above, some believe that asexuality itself is a myth or a disorder.
 * A very common myth is that asexuals are cold-hearted, emotionless, or afraid of intimacy. There is an opposite to this stereotype, which paints them as "immature" and "childish."
 * There is also another stereotype that asexuals are overly prudish and boring.
 * People may also confuse asexuality with celibacy (the decision to abstain from romantic or sexual relationships) or abstinence (the decision to abstain from things like alcohol, but it can include sex/marriage as well). While abstinence and celibacy are choices, asexuality is a orientation, which cannot be decided.
 * People might believe that asexuals don't experience romantic attraction, but that isn't the case for a lot of asexual people. While a lot of asexuals experience romantic attraction and want to date, however, not all of them do, either. People who do not experience sexual or romantic attraction are called aromantic asexuals, or aroaces.
 * Most asexuals are born that way and do not become asexual because of a traumatic incident. That being said, asexuals put off by sex because of an incident are still valid and worthy of respect.
 * Asexuals do not have "a sex drive that doesn't work" or have reproductive organs that "don't work properly." Most asexuals still have bodies that work properly.