"After all, studies tend to estimate that about 1% of the population is asexual, though research on this is thin and some estimates range as high as 5.5%."
Those stats are only because asexuality often just looks from the outside like someone is single with close friendships. It's easy to "pass" even when we're not trying to, simply because it's very difficult to model asexuality in any way that's obvious to anyone.
"After all, studies tend to estimate that about 1% of the population is asexual, though research on this is thin and some estimates range as high as 5.5%."
Those stats are only because asexuality often just looks from the outside like someone is single with close friendships. It's easy to "pass" even when we're not trying to, simply because it's very difficult to model asexuality in any way that's obvious to anyone.