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our-arospec-experience · 2 months

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Some Arospec Identities:

This is a list of some Arospec identities! It may be incomplete, and I am not an expert, so please let me know if there are any mistakes/identities you want added. :D

aromantic: experiencing little or no romantic attraction to anyone; not having romantic feelings.

aro flux: someone who fluctuates between experiencing romantic attraction and not experiencing it, and/or experiencing romantic attraction to different strengths.

abroromantic: explained here by an abro person

Akoiromantic/lithromantic: a person who experiences romantic attraction but has no desire or need to have their feelings reciprocated. Sometimes an akoiromantic person’s attraction may fade if a romantic relationship is established.

Alloromantic/zedromantic: someone who does experience romantic attraction. An alloromantic person may be allosexual as well, but not necessarily.

Cupioromantic: someone who does not experience romantic attraction but has a desire to be in a romantic relationship.

Demi(a)romantic: someone who only experiences romantic attraction after establishing a strong emotional connection to someone.

Frayromantic: someone who experiences romantic attraction, but this attraction fades after getting to know the object of attraction.

Grey-(a)romantic: someone who sometimes, occasionally, or rarely experiences romantic attraction. The attraction they experience may be weak, or it might be infrequent. Also used as an umbrella term for all romantic orientations that fall between alloromantic and aromantic.

Quoiromantic/WTF-romantic: someone who finds romantic attraction confusing, or cannot differentiate between platonic and romantic attraction, or is unsure of whether they experience romantic attraction.

Nebularomantic: is a neurosexuality specific to neurodiverse individuals, and it falls on the aromantic spectrum. It's a label for people who have difficulty telling the difference between romantic and platonic attraction specifically due to their neurodivergence (or can't tell the difference at all).

Caedromantic: having been able to experience romantic attraction in the past, and not experiencing romantic attraction any more, with the feeling that the romantic attraction was taken away/destroyed or left because of a traumatic experience.

Aegoromantic: Someone who is aegoromantic enjoys the concept of romance but does not want to participate in actual romantic activities. An example of this would be an aegoromantic individual enjoying watching a romantic show or reading a romance novel. However acting out these romantic stories in real life would not be appealing to an aegoromantic person. An aegoromantic person would typically not desire a romantic relationship.

Apothiromantic: People on the aromantic spectrum who consider themselves to be romance-repulsed, are called apothiromantic. A romance-repulsed aromantic is repulsed by the idea of romance all together. Like with any romantic identity, apothiromantic individuals can have any sexual orientation. Their aromantic identity is not directly connected to their sexual identity.

Arospike: is an aromantic orientation on the aromantic spectrum. This identity is for those who usually do not feel a romantic attraction. Sometimes however, an arospike can experience a (rare) sudden spike of aromantic attraction that will last for a short amount of time. After this they will return just as quickly, to aromantic.

autoromantic: is a term for people who experience a romantic attraction (exclusive or not) towards themselves. It can occur in different forms, such as: fantasizing about a romantic relationship with yourself. Or, as described above: feeling little to no romantic attraction to others but being able to feel romantic attraction to yourself.

Bellusromantic: defined as someone who has interest in (certain aspects of) traditional romantic behaviour such as holding hands and cuddling. However, a bellusromantic would not experience romantic attraction and does not want an actual romantic relationship. So they keyword here is ‘interest’. The interest is there, but a bellusromantic can’t and wouldn’t want to put it into practice.

Fictoromantic: falls under the aromantic spectrum as they do not experience romantic attraction to (real life) people. Fictoromantic is a term used for people who experience romantic attraction exclusively towards fictional characters. Fictoromantic is also known as fictonromantic.

Myrromantic: Someone who identifies as myrromantic is on the aromantic spectrum but might feel confused as to where exactly, as they can experience multiple aromantic identities at once. They can also rapidly fluctuate. As an example: a person who considers themself to be both demiromantic as well as grayromantic. This might be confusing to some, which is why myrromantic can be a more comfortable label to identify with.

Recipromantic: A recipromantic (also known as reciproromantic) is someone who does not experience romantic attraction until they know that the other individual is romantically attracted to them first. The word comes from the word ‘reciprocate’.

Requisromantic: someone who experiences a very limited, or no romantic attraction and interest due to some form of emotional exhaustion. The reason of emotional exhaust may have many reasons such as (bad) past experiences dealing with romance or other emotionally draining reasons.

amicusromantic: explained here by an amicusromantic person.

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frosty-the-killer-doll · 2 months

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aro headcanons for aro week 2024: team arrow edition!

oliver queen is aromantic, specifically demiromantic graysexual.

thea queen is aromantic, specifically demiromantic demisexual.

mia smoak/queen is aromantic, specifically aromantic allosexual.

emiko queen is aromantic, specifically aromantic asexual.

rene ramirez is aromantic, specifically demiromantic allosexual.

zoe ramirez is aromantic, specifically non-SAM aromantic.

sin simone is aromantic, specifically demiromantic demisexual.

earth-2 laurel lance is aromantic, specifically delloromantic allosexual.

dinah drake is aromantic, specifically caedromantic (erasromantic) allosexual.

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askanaroace · 9 months

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Carnival of Aros: Loneliness - I Don't Think I Experience It

I'm hosting July's Carnival of Aros on the topic of Loneliness. August, October, November, and on still need hosts, so if you're interested in interacting more with the aro community, please consider volunteering!

So when I created the intro post to the Loneliness topic, I proposed a question I couldn't get out of my head.

What’s your understanding or definition of loneliness? Does this seem to differ from an alloromantic’s description of loneliness?

After this, I was just like...omg does it?

First, I tried to define loneliness. And that was hard. I knew the general feeling of what I call loneliness but putting words to that was a lot harder.

I'm not gonna lie. I gave up on trying to figure out what words were fitting really quick. And instead I asked on facebook for any connections to give me their definition of loneliness if they wished.

Four alloplatonic alloromantic allosexuals answered me. I won't quote them, since I didn't get permission for that, but holy shit.

Their answers were absolutely heartbreaking. They centered around the idea of being isolated and/or disconnected and/or misunderstood and experiencing a sucking black hollowness of hopelessness and pain. Multiple of them brought up how loneliness could cause or worsen depression and other mental health struggles.

They all had really strong descriptions of how horrible loneliness felt. Even just through text alone, I could feel the intensity of their feelings.

And from the very first answer, I just had to go: holy shit. I don't think I've ever really been lonely. And every answer that came after the first just verified that I have never felt these depths of loneliness my connections were describing.

For reference, I'm an aplatonic aromantic (caedromantic) asexual. I'm not sure I was always aplatonic or it's also related to my trauma, but I have always had much lower social needs than everyone around me.

I've definitely felt isolated, disconnected, and misunderstood before. There's a lot of times where I want to have someone to reach out to in order to vent about something or be hopeful about something and felt like no one would really support or understand or maybe even care about me. I've often struggled with reconciling the fact that I'm not interested in any sort of committed relationship and the fact that I'm supposed to be interested in marriage. I've struggled with feeling left behind because I'm just not interested in so many of the adult "milestones" of modern culture (primarily marriage and kids).

And that's what I would have described as loneliness. Wanting to want someone to reach out to but not wanting it. The inconvenience of not having anyone to share the petty bullshit minutia of life with. The frustration of only having myself as my own cheerleading section (and failing miserably at it).

I would maybe have categorized these feelings as a max intensity of 5 out of 10. And that is a maximum - not an average.

Judging by my connections descriptions, their intensity sounds a lot closer to a 10.

And that's really interesting. Is this comparative emotional blunting due to depression/other mental illness? Is it wrapped up in the fact that I generally don't want/can't handle intimate connections? Is it a mix of both?

It's an interesting question, and like many other personal questions about identity and self - one I'm just not sure I have a true answer to. I would guess it's both with a sprinkling of other things I haven't considered just due to the messy, complicated nature of humans. But who really knows.

#aromantic #aro #aro spectrum #aplatonic #apl #carnival of aros #carnival of aros: loneliness #loneliness #submission #askanaroace #feelings #experiences #connection #relationships #visibility #long post

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alloaroworlds · 1 year

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[image description: ten digital, simple images of long arrows with grey triangular heads, brown wood shafts and green fletching. Repeated bands sit along the shaft, alternating between the green/light green/white/yellow/gold allosexual-aromantic flag and other aromantic spectrum and related pride flags. From top down, the other flags are: aego-fictoromantic, alterous, arospike, arovague, caedromantic, demi-recipromantic, duraromantic, loveless arogender, lovequeer aromantic, sequenceromantic .]

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Flags: Aego-Fictoromantic, Alterous, Arospike, Arovague, Caedromantic, Demi-Recipromantic, Duraromantic, Loveless Arogender, Lovequeer Aromantic, Sequenceromantic.

Here’s to my fellow allo-aros, wherever we are under this green and gold umbrella, and the pride we have in all our aromantic identities.

All arrows are available for free use with credit to one of my accounts.

For (aro) flag creator posts, please see @aroflagarchive.

#alloaro #aroallo #allosexual aromantic #aromantic allosexual #arospec creations #aro arrows #arrows #artwork and visual #original artwork #pride #aro symbols #aro symbolism #weaponry #gold and yellow alloaro pride flag #yellow and green alloaro flag

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hisplaceofescape · 2 years

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Caedromantic Allosexual flag! For those who are CaedroAllo <3

#arospec #caedromantic #caedoromantic #allosexual #aroallo #alloaro #caedroallo #allocaedro #caedoroallo #allocaedoro #aromamtic #aromantic allosexual #allosexual aromantic

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aro-and-tired · 3 years

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Loveless Aro Survey: Survey results (part 1)

PART 2

The survey wanted to gather some information on people who use the loveless aro label, as well as the opinions of non-loveless aros on the loveless label. Both groups were given a set of demographic questions, to see if there are any specific trends in who is more likely to identify as loveless. This first post will focus on showing the results of demographic questions, while results gotten on further questions (regarding experiences and opinions) will be shared in a second post, as a single post for everything would be far too long.

At the start of the survey, people were asked if they identify as a loveless aro, with possible answers being “yes”, “no”, or “questioning”. People who answered “questioning” were counted together with people who answered “yes”. This was because, in order to question calling themselves loveless aros, questioning people had to find the term interesting for some reason, and their experiences can also give insight on who feels attracted to the loveless aro term.

As a last note before going in, the demographic results from non-loveless aros will be assumed to be representative of the general aro community and used for comparison. However, there is still the possibility they may not be entirely accurate, since the number of people who participated is still just a fraction of the entire aro community.

There were a total of 1330 participants. Of this, 57.5% (765) said they do not identify as loveless aro. 28.1% (374) said they are questioning using the term, and 14.4% (191) said they do identify as loveless aro. I will now present each of the demographic questions, putting side by side the results given by loveless and questioning loveless aros (which I will shorten to just loveless aros for sake of brevity) versus the results given by non-loveless aros. There will be a tl;dr at the end of this post.

Question 1: Which of the following do you most identify with?

This question allowed people to pick between the options : Allosexual Aromantic, Aroace, Aromid, Non-SAM Aro or Just Aro, Oriented or Angled Aroace, Questioning, and I don't identify with any of these.

Loveless aros

Aroace - 46%

Allosexual Aromantic - 19.6%

Non-SAM Aro or Just Aro - 15.4%

Oriented or Angled Aroace - 10.8%

Questioning - 3.5%

Aromid and I don’t identify with any of these - 2.3%

Non-loveless aros

Aroace - 48%

Allosexual Aromantic - 19.5%

Oriented or Angled Aroace - 16.5%

Non-SAM Aro or Just Aro - 6%

I don’t identify with any of these - 4.4%

Questioning - 3.5%

Aromid - 2.1%

Loveless aros seem more likely to identify as non-SAM aros, and less likely to identify as oriented or angled aroace. The other labels are used roughly by the same amount of people.

Question 2: Which arospec identities do you identify with?

Multiple choices were allowed.

Loveless aros

Aromantic - 90.4%

Arospec - 28.3%

Quoiromantic or WTFromantic - 11.2%

Greyromantic - 10.1%

Aroqueer - 8.1%

Questioning - 8%

Demiromantic - 6.9%

Aegoromantic - 6.4%

Aroflux - 5.8%

Cupioromantic - 4.8%

Nebularomantic - 4.2%

Apothiromantic - 3.9%

Lithromantic or Akoiromantic - 3.4%

Bellusromantic - 2.8%

Arospike - 1.9%

Reciproromantic - 1.6%

Freyromantic - 1.2%

A few other options were added by participants, the most common being arovague and caedromantic.

Non-loveless aros

Aromantic - 81.2%

Arospec - 40.7%

Greyromantic - 16.7%

Demiromantic - 12.8%

Questioning - 11.9%

Quoiromantic or WTFromantic - 11.6%

Aroqueer - 7.3%

Aroflux - 7.2%

Aegoromantic - 6.4%

Cupioromantic - 6.3%

Lithromantic or Akoiromantic - 3.1%

Nebularomantic - 2.5%

Bellusromantic - 2.1%

Arospike - 1.6%

Apothiromantic - 1.3%

Reciproromantic - 1%

Freyromantic - 0.5%

Of the other labels added by participants, the most common were queer, fictoromantic, and romo aro.

Loveless aros seem more likely to identify with the label “aromantic”, and less likely to identify as “arospec”. Loveless aros seem in general less likely to identify with specific arospec labels (the most popular for loveless aros was picked by 11.2% of participants, while the most popular for non-loveless aros was picked by 16.7%). Looking at the relative popularity of specific arospec labels, the main difference seems to be that demiromantic is less used by loveless aros.

Question 3: How old are you?

Note: there was a typo here. The 36-40 age bracket was incorrectly marked as 34-40, but given the number of people who picked this or the previous age bracket is very low this hopefully led to minimal confusion.

Loveless aros

15 or younger - 14.7%

16-20 - 45.8%

21-25 - 27.6%

26-30 - 8%

31-35 - 2.3%

36-40 - 1.2%

41-45 - 0.4%

Non-loveless aros

15 or younger - 13.6%

16-20 - 46.9%

21-25 - 26.7%

26-30 - 8.2%

31-35 - 2.9%

36-40 - 0.9%

41-45 - 0.7%

46-50 - 0.1%

Age wise, there wasn’t any significant difference between the two groups. Keep in mind, however, that because the survey was mainly shared on social media it’s expected for participants to have skewed young.

Question 4: How would you describe your gender?

Multiple choices were allowed.

Loveless aros

Nonbinary - 43%

Agender - 32.2%

Transgender - 28.1%

Female - 21.6%

Genderqueer - 18.9%

Male - 17.5%

Cisgender - 15.4%

Genderfluid - 14.2%

Questioning - 12.7%

Demigender - 10.1%

Xenogender - 8.3%

Arogender - 7.3%

Genderflux - 5.8%

Many other labels were mentioned by participants, the most common being bigender, gendervoid and neutrois.

Non-loveless aros

Nonbinary - 42.6%

Female - 29%

Transgender - 27.8%

Cisgender - 24.6%

Agender - 24.2%

Genderqueer - 19.6%

Male - 14%

Questioning - 13.1%

Genderfluid - 12.8%

Demigender - 8.9%

Genderflux - 6.4%

Xenogender - 6.3%

Arogender - 2.6%

Many other labels were mentioned by participants, the most common being bigender, gendervoid, queer, neutrois, pangender and cassgender.

Non-loveless aros are more likely to be cisgender, and more likely to consider themselves female, while the percentage of people identifying as male doesn’t change too much between the two groups. On the other hand, loveless aros are more likely to be agender or arogender.

Question 5: How would you describe your sexual orientation?

Multiple choices were allowed.

Loveless aros

Asexual - 55.9%

Asexual spectrum - 24.2%

Queer - 23.4%

Allosexual - 13.1%

No labels - 10.8%

Bisexual - 10.4%

Questioning - 8.1%

Gay and Lesbian - 6.7%

Pansexual - 5.3%

Heterosexual - 3.6%

Polysexual and Trixic - 1.4%

Toric - 0.9%

Various participants added other labels, with most participants specifying the asexual spectrum identities they identify with (the most common being aegosexual, aceflux, demisexual and greysexual). Out of the non-acespec labels, the ones used by more than one person were enbian and sapphic.

Non-loveless aros

Asexual - 60.9%

Queer - 25.6%

Asexual spectrum - 25.2%

Bisexual - 14.9%

Allosexual - 12.5%

Questioning - 8%

No labels - 6.7%

Pansexual - 5.9%

Lesbian - 4.8%

Gay - 3.7%

Heterosexual - 3.2%

Trixic - 2.4%

Polysexual - 1.8%

Toric - 0.7%

Out of the labels participants added, the more common were various asexual spectrum identities (the most common being quoisexual, aegosexual, greysexual and demisexual). Out of the non-acespec labels, the only one used by more than one person was enbian.

The bigger differences seen between the two groups is that loveless aros are more likely to not label their sexual orientation (in line with non-SAM aros being more common between loveless aros), while non-loveless aros are slightly more likely to be bisexual than loveless aros are. It’s also interesting that while the percentage of aroaces is more or less the same for loveless and non-loveless aros, non-loveless aros are somewhat more likely to identify as asexual.

Question 6: Are you neurodivergent or mentally ill?

Note: a person reached out to me telling me how this question could come off as insensitive to some neurodivergent people who would prefer if neurodivergency and mental illness were not associated together. If anyone wants to leave further feedback on this, feel free to do so.

Loveless aros

Yes - 63.4%

Unsure - 22.3%

No - 12.4%

Prefer not to say - 1.9%

Non-loveless aros

Yes - 54.6%

Unsure - 27.7%

No - 16.3%

Prefer not to say - 1%

Loveless aros seem more likely to be neurodivergent or mentally ill than non-loveless aros.

Question 7: Are you physically disabled or chronically ill?

Loveless aros

No - 69.4%

Yes - 15.4%

Unsure - 13.1%

Prefer not to say - 2.1%

Non-loveless aros

No - 71.6%

Yes - 14%

Unsure - 13.1%

Prefer not to say - 1.3%

There aren’t any big differences between the two groups when it comes to physical disability.

Question 8: Do you experience tertiary attraction of some kind?

Multiple choices were allowed.

Note: some people said they wished I had given an option for people who do not label tertiary attraction / feel tertiary attraction is not important to their identity. While it was only a handful of people, keep in mind results may not be 100% accurate.

Loveless aros

Aesthetic attraction - 63%

Platonic attraction - 39.3%

Questioning - 27.4%

Queerplatonic attraction - 23.2%

Sensual attraction - 23%

Alterous attraction - 20.7%

I experience no tertiary attraction - 13.3%

Other types of attraction - 5.8%

Non-loveless aros

Aesthetic attraction - 71.5%

Platonic attraction - 68.5%

Queerplatonic attraction - 38.8%

Sensual attraction - 35.3%

Alterous attraction - 28.2%

Questioning - 26.3%

Other types of attraction - 9.2%

I experience no tertiary attraction - 6%

Loveless aros are a little less likely to experience tertiary attraction. Also, loveless aros are less likely to experience pretty much all types of tertiary attraction compared to non-loveless aros. The most dramatic difference involves platonic attraction - 68% of non-loveless aros experience it, but only 39% of loveless aros do.

Question 9: Do you consider yourself aplatonic?

Loveless aros

No - 51.3%

Questioning - 29.2%

Yes - 19.5%

Non-loveless aros

No - 90.2%

Questioning - 7.2%

Yes - 2.6%

There is a huge difference here between the two groups. Nearly half of loveless aros either consider themselves aplatonic or are questioning it, while when it comes to non-loveless aros 90% of them neither use the label nor are they questioning it.

Question 10: Are you part of the voidpunk movement?

Loveless aros

I don’t know what that means - 38.6%

Yes - 35%

No - 26.4%

Non-loveless aros

I don’t know what that means - 43.8%

No - 36.3%

Yes - 19.9%

Loveless aros are quite more likely to consider themselves part of the voidpunk movement.

Question 11: Is there anything else about your demographics that you want to share or believe is relevant to this survey?

The main goal of this question was to see what other information could have been gathered, or would be interesting to gather were a similar survey to be run another time.

It would be meaningful to collect information regarding people’s race. Some people specified their race, although far too few to make any sort of comparison right now. Since race can be major influence on how people perceive their identity, I regret not adding a question centering on that.

Cultural background would have also been interesting to gather. Since this survey was in English, the perspectives given are mostly those of Anglophones - especially Americans, considering tumblr’s demographics. There have been however various people who mentioned not being USAmerican, stating that this influenced how they view matters of identity and love (some on this will be in Part 2 of these results).

Lastly and connected to the previous, religious background would have also been interesting to gather, as some people (mostly Christians or former Christians) have talked about how their view of lovelessness intersects with their religious history (will also be discussed in Part 2).

TL;DR

The biggest differences between loveless and non-loveless aros relate to how the two groups experience platonic attraction: non-loveless aros are more likely to experience all kinds of tertiary attraction, with loveless aros being both less likely to experience any individual kind of attraction and less likely to experience tertiary attraction in general. The most noticeable difference was that loveless aros are a lot less likely to experience platonic attraction than non-loveless aros.

This also ties in to the aplatonic label, which nearly 20% of loveless aros use, compared to less than 3% of non-loveless aros. In fact, the vast majority of non-loveless aros does not consider the aplatonic label for themselves at all.

Loveless aros are somewhat more likely to identify as non-SAM aros, as well as more likely not to label their sexual orientation. On the topic of gender, loveless aros are less likely to be cis, and they are more likely to be agender or arogender. The higher percentage of both non-SAM aros and arogender people could indicate that loveless aros are more likely to find their aromanticism the more important part of their identity.

Furthermore, loveless aros are less likely to identify as arospec or use specific arospec labels, while they are more likely to use the word “aromantic”.

Loveless aros are more likely to relate to the voidpunk label. Loveless aros are also more likely to be neurodivergent or mentally ill.

As far as the results of this survey show, there are no big differences between loveless and non-loveless aros when it comes to age or physical disability.

#aromantic #loveless aro #survey results

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cablenews · 4 years

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some aspec terms since an anon asked abt a list

(note that there are a few more aro terms here bc im alloaro. suffixes can able be changed to -platonic, -romantic, -sexual, etc.)

aspec: the aromantic + asexual spectrum of identities

acespec: the asexual spectrum of identities

arospec: the aromantic spectrum of identities

aromantic: lack of romantic attraction

asexual: lack of sexual attraction

aroace: someone who is both aromantic + asexual

alloace: someone who is asexual, but not ace

alloaro: someone who is aromantic, but not asexual

split attraction model: a model that states that various types of attraction can be split into types — romantic, sexual, platonic, queerplatonic, etc; not exclusively used by aspecs (ex. bisexual homoromantic)

squish: a desire for a very strong platonic relationship with someone; basically the aromantic version of a crush

queerplatonic: a relationship that does not involve romantic attraction; "life partners"

oriented aroace: an aroace that feels attraction that isn’t romantic or sexual; such as a lesbian oriented aroace being sensually / queerplatonically being attracted to women

angled aroace: an aroacespec that feels some form of romantic / sexual attraction (such as gray or demi); such as an angled aroace lesbian being demi + having romantic / sexual attraction to women they’re close to

demiromantic: feeling no romantic attraction until a certain bond is formed over time

demisexual: feeling no sexual attraction until a certain bond is formed over time

grayromantic: rarely feeling romantic attraction unless in certain situations

graysexual: rarely feeling sexual attraction unless in certain situations

quoiromantic: having difficulty with or being unable to differentiate romantic attraction from other types of attraction

quoisexual: having difficulty with or being unable to differentiate sexual attraction from other types of attraction

aroflux: intensity of romantic attraction felt fluctuates

aceflux: intensity of sexual attraction felt fluctuates

akoiromantic / lithoromantic: feeling romantic attraction, but not wanting it reciprocated, or losing romantic attraction if your feelings are reciprocated

arospike: feeling no romantic attraction, except in occasional intense bursts, before going back to no attraction again

acespike: feeling no sexual attraction, except in occasional intense bursts, before going back to no attraction again

cupioromantic: having no romantic attraction, but still desiring a romantic relationship

cupiosexual: having no sexual attraction, but still desiring a sexual relationship

frayromantic: only feeling romantic attraction to those you aren’t close with, losing the feeling when they become more familiar

fraysexual: only feeling sexual attraction to those you aren’t close with, losing the feeling when they become more familiar

recipromantic: only feeling romantic attraction if someone else is romantically attracted to you first

nebularomantic: same as quoiromantic, though this is due to mental illness / neurodivergence

bellusromantic: having an interest in conventionally romantic things, but with no romantic attraction or desire for a relationship

caedromantic: someone who feels as though they were once alloromantic, but due to trauma, now consider themselves aromantic; should only be used by trauma survivors or those with ptsd

caedsexual: someone who feels as though they were once allosexual, but due to trauma, now consider themselves asexual; should only be used by trauma survivors or those with ptsd

idemromantic: being able to categorize others as having either a platonic or romantic attraction based on outside factors yet feeling no difference in the type of attraction

fictoromantic: only feeling romantic attraction towards fictional characters

fictosexual: only feeling sexual attraction towards fiction characters

#Here anon! Unfortunately there's too many flags though :( so uh...might add them in a rb.#Signing off #Asexual #Ace #Aro #Aromantic #Aspec #Terms #???

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demis-deserve-love · 4 years

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Stolen from @aro-aceplace because I found it online but couldn’t find the original post to reblog.

Aro/Ace Spectrum Orientations

Abrosexual/Abroromantic: Having an orientation or feelings about it that constantly change and cannot be pinned down for this reason.

Aceflux/ Aroflux: When someone’s sexual/ romantic orientation fluctuates but always stays on the aro/ace spectrum.

Acespike/ Arospike: When someone usually doesn’t feeling sexual/romantic attraction but occasionally rapidly skyrockets into intense attraction, then plummeting down to asexuality/aromanticism again.

Acoromantic/Acosexual: Asexual/Aromantic(spec) because of negative past experiences. (similar to Caedromantic/Caedsexual)

Adfecturomantic/Affecturomantic/Adfectual/Adfomantic: Is someone whose romantic attraction is affected by their neurodivergency.

Aegosexual/Aegoromantic: Feeling attraction and desire only for situations that do not involve one’s self.

Aliquasexual/ Aliquaromantic: Not normally feeling attraction, but feeling it on occasion under specific circumstances.

Amicussexual/Amicusromantic: When you are only attracted to people you’re also platonically attracted to.

Antisexual/ Antiromantic: Would rather not develop platonic/romantic/sexual feelings for people, but does anyway.

Apressexual/ Apresromantic: Only feeling attraction after another form of attraction is felt.

Aromantic/Asexual: When someone doesn’t feel sexual/ romantic attraction to anyone

Arovague/Acevague: Aromanticism or asexuality that is heavily influenced by neurodiversity (also known as Adfecturomantic / Adfectusexual)

Akoinsexual/ Akoinromantic: When someone feels sexual/ romantic attraction towards others and also enjoys romantic/ sexual relationships in theory, but does not need that affection to be reciprocated. An Akoinsexual/ Akoinromantic person may also experiencing sexual attraction until those feelings are reciprocated.

(Also known as Lithsexual/Lithromantic or Akoisexual/ Akoiromantic)

Apresromantic / Apresexual: An orientation where romantic/sexual attraction is felt only after another type of attraction is formed.

Apothisexual/ Apothiromatic: A specific term for when someone on the asexual/ aromantic spectrum is sex repulsed or romance repulsed. (Also known as ARCsexual/ ARCromantic)

Autochrissexual/ Autochrisromantic: When someone feels sexual arousal/ romantic attraction for something, but from a distance, as if they were someone else, and have no desire to do that thing themselves (Also known as Aegosexual/ Aegoromantic or Autochorrisromantic / Autochorrissexual).

Bellusromantic: When someone is fine with cute fluffy stuff with anyone but doesn’t want a relationship at all.

Burstsexual/ Burstromantic: An orientation where a type of attraction will occur in a sudden burst, then vanish or fade away.

Borearomantic/Boreasexual: an orientation that seems to revolve around one person in particular. (can also be defined as an exception to one’s orientation, ie, someone who identifies as homosexual/homoromantic feeling attraction to someone of a different gender)

Caedromantic/Caedsexual: The feeling that romantic or sexual attraction was taken away due to past trauma -for PTSD and trauma survivors

Casssexual/ Cassromantic: Feeling utterly indifferent to attraction, believing it isn’t important.

Ceasesexual/ Ceaseromantic: Usually being allosexual/romantic, but occasionally having a complete loss of attraction for a period of time before feeling it again.

Cupiosexual/ Cupioromantic: When someone does not experience sexual/ romantic attraction, but still desires a sexual/ romantic relationship. (Also known as kalossexual/ kalosromantic and Icularomantic/ Icularsexual)

Demisexual/ Demiromantic: When someone is only sexually/ romantically attracted to people they already have a strong emotional connection with.

Dreadsexual/ Dreadromantic: An orientation that fluctuates from feeling no attraction to feeling attraction. When attraction is felt, it is accompanied by a strong feeling of dread or anxiety.

Duosexual/ Duoromantic: Having two or more well defined orientations that you switch between (e.g. cupiosexual and fraysexual).

Durasexual/Duraromantic: Rarely experiencing attraction, but when it happens it lasts for a long time.

Fictosexual/ Fictoromantic: When someone only feels sexually/romantically attracted to fictional characters.

Freysexual/ Freyromantic: When Someone is sexualy/ romantically attracted to those they are less familiar with but after a while the “excitement” of meeting the new person dies down and you are perfectly content on just being friends.

Greysexual/ Greyromantic: When someone only feels sexual/ romantic attraction rarely.This term can also be a general term for identifying as somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum.

Lamvanosexual/ Iamvanoromantic: Feeling uncofortable doing sexual/romantic things to someone, but being willing to receive sexual and romantic acts.

Idemromantic: When someone Categorizes relationships and feelings as platonic or romantic but experiences no notable internal differences

Inactoromantic: When someone experiences romantic attraction and wants a romantic relationship but doesn’t like romantic actions. Also known as initiaromantic.

Limnosexual/ Limnoromantic: Attraction only piqued by depictions of acts of attraction (eg drawings or writing), not the acts themselves in real life (similar to fictosexual/ fictoromantic).

Malasexual/Malaromantic: When someone only experiences attraction during maladaptive daydreams

Metaromantic: Only experiencing attraction that is unable to be defined by strict terms of platonic or romantic.

Nebula-romantic/ Nebula-sexual: Difficulty distinguishing romantic/sexual and platonic attraction due to neurodiversity

Novisexual/Noviromantic: Feeling complicated attraction or lack thereof in such a way that it is difficult or impossible to fit into one word or term.

Omniaromantic:Is someone who feels no romantic attraction whatsoever. In no way, shape, or form do they fall in love or feel any attraction to anyone.They are asensual, have no aesthetic attraction to others, and no squishes. They can experience platonic love or familial love, though not all do so. This term was made to made a distinguish between being on the aromantic spectrum and specify from the common definition of a aromantic person, since saying someone is “aromantic” could mean they could be demiromantic, gray-aromantic, and such other types of aromantics who do feel sensual, have aesthetic attraction and such.

Placiosexual/ Placioromantic: When someone feels little to no desire to receive sexual/romantic acts but expresses interest/desire in performing them on someone else.

Platonisexual/ Platoniromantic: When someone feels no difference between platonic and romantic attraction.

Polarsexual/ Polarromantic: Switching between being either extremely attracted and not at all attracted.

Post rubor: Is someone who quickly gets crushes/squishes/etc on others, but after the initial excitement of said crush/etc vanishes so do their feelings.

Presexual/ Preromantic: A placeholder term for when someone feels that they have not experienced attraction enough to know their orientation yet.

Propeestsexual/ Propeestromantic: An aro/ace spec identity which feels like a mix of many (any more than two a-spec identities) that all are a part of your identity

Quoisexual/ Quoiromantic: Is when someone experiences sexual attraction in a way that is not typical of allosexuals individuals, but doesn’t knowing where they fit on the asexual spectrum; or not identifying with any of the existing labels./ Feeling as if the concept of romance or sexual attraction, etc. is inapplicable or nonsensical to one’s self.(Also known as wtfsexual)

Recipsexual/ Recipromantic: When someone feels sexual/ romantic attraction only after realizing someone is sexually/ romantically attracted to them.

Requeissexual/Requeromantic: When someone feels limited or no sexual/romantic attraction/interest/activity due to some form of emotional exhaustion or trauma.

Schromantic: Is someone who is aromantic and romantic at the same time, or some mix of the two. Frequently described in terms of Schrödinger’s cat as having the possibility of being romantic and aromantic at the same time

Singulusexual/ Singuluromantic: Only experiencing one type of attraction towards people (i.e. if you experience sexual attraction towards a person, you won’t feel romantic/alterous/platonic attraction towards them).

Thymsexual/ Thymromantic: Feeling attraction which varies depending on emotional state

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ayy-spec · 3 years

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Anything to Add?

The final question in this survey was a write-in section for people to leave any additional comments. 113 people responded.

Important/Particularly Interesting Comments

• I hope this goes well for you because you seem nice and if you have any advice for new to the community 15 year olds like me, don't be afraid to share because I'm trying to embrace my sexuality as much as possible but it can be hard when I don't know where to go or turn to to find what I'm supposed to do and where to ask questions and just fully embrass this part of me and it can be hard when I don't even know many if any aspecs so representation is great and it is helpful to hear your experiences and how you handle certain parts, so just keep doing what your doing because it is making a difference [note: 🥺🥺😭]

• i often consider myself more as just aroace rather than aro and ace seperately so i prefer seeing the blue and orange aroace flag over the individual aro and ace flags

• I don't really shorten my identity often with aroace, only when im feeling very romance repulsed and its been a while since I felt romantic attraction. I am a pan-demiromantic asexual. My pan label makes me feel more connected to the lgbt+ community bc it feels like my nonbinary and intersex status doesn't count either. I know I belong in the queer community, but the lgbt+ community is so sexual orientation focused.

• Thank you for having a wide variety of labels to choose from in the options!! I don't see the term aegoromantic very often on things, it feels nice to be known I guess haha

• Thank you for this, i recently started thinking about being in arospec and it was so relieving, all this time i thought something was wrong or maybe i was broken. I'm still trying to learn more about it, and I'm grateful for people willing to teach and help

• didn't realize I hadn't experienced sexual attraction until I finally did and was like "OH, no wonder all my other relationships felt like I was playing pretend"

• I dont often tell people I'm gray aroace. Not because of shame or it not being "as important" (I'm a gay trans dude) but I think because I just feel its a very intimate part of myself, as well as my romanticism and sexuality (in terms of like asexuality) feeling as though it doesn't always need a label. I'm fine just being myself most of the time, a lot of labels can be tricky for myself I think. I'm happy the label exists nonetheless though because Its nice to know I'm not the only one who feels like this.

• I'm queer! But if I'm getting down to the bones of it, I'm pan/ace. Still relearning how to be proud of that, after The Grand Clusterfuck years back.

• even though I would be considered to have an alloromantic orientation, alloace isn't really a term I feel any strong connection or attachment to

• i'd like to add that i do consider myself alloaro and use that label openly but i'd also not consider myself 100% allosexual. i'm questioning my sexuality but even if i do end up feeling more solidly ace-spec i'd still use the alloaro label

• Idk who else does this or if this is interesting enough to write down, but I thought I would! I use Aroace as a label. Other, smaller labels inside that would probably fit me better! Aroace feels too big, like it doesn't *really* define exactly who I am. But at the same time, I prefer using it because more people know what Aroace means (at least compared to myrromantic and myrsexual). I use Aroace so the public can define me. I don't typically use it around my close friends 'cause they already know my idiosyncrasies and where I really am. They already made their own definitions for me, so I don't have to make one for them!

• I'm still figuring myself out, so I leave myself at the blanket terms and hopefully everything'll work out in the end

The rest of the responses are below:

Comments Alerting Me About Typos (that I was then able to resolve)

• There's a typo in your "sexual orientation labels" question, because you have Aroflux listed and not Aceflux, but I didn't want to confuse things so I put Aceflux (which I do use) under Other. I also am polysexual (I flux between polysexual and asexual but I am always aegosexual) but didn't know if I should but it under Other anywhere since it's not an acespec label. I consider my polysexuality tied to me being aego/aceflux though, which is why I mention it here.

• the sexual orientations options are the same of the romantic ones ( for example, there's arovague and arospike in the sexual cathegory)

People Clarifying/Expounding Upon Their Own Identity/Experiences

· to clarify: i'm unsure whether or not i am demi or aceflux; so i use graysexual since both labels technically fall under that as an umbrella term.

• I’m still a confused gorl and I really only know that I don’t like sex it sexual acts but I do like romantic and sensual acts

• Sex/romance repulsed and I have aesthetic attraction

• I'm also animesexual and fictosexual (and romantic I guess but I don't like using the SAM for myself).

• I have never seen most of these labels, haha, I expect one of them is the one I always forget that's for being aro due to past trauma but people always assume it's romantic/sexual trauma so I don't use it and thus have forgotten it...but that's the essay I'm not usually up for writing: was biromantic but then had several awful life events on top of each other and had a complete breakdown and have been aro since. Unclear if it's permanent but it's been 14 years now. [note: I believe this person is thinking of caedromantic]

• I tend to use the word ace more than asexual because it's shorter, but I don't feel more favorably about one than the other.

• i can't tell the difference between platonic vs romantic attraction, and am unsure if people i have "liked" in the past was romantic, platonic, or a fake stemming from peer pressure.

• Also Gender-Neutral/Agender

• I’m gray-aro but identify more with being biromantic even though I know I’m aro-spec. As for sexual orientation, I’m just completely ace xD

• The fact I'm still trying to figure out my gender makes it harder to pinpoint exactly what my orientations are :( but I usually say I'm queer, and if it's safe: Bi Ace, and if I can get more specific: biromantic grey-asexual

• I also use a platonic label (biplatonic). I use it not in a friendship way, but more like in a QPR way.

• Thank you for doing this! My identity on the aro/ace spectrums has shifted a lot over the years and while I’ve just settled on aroace and queer for the most part, this community is so diverse and under appreciated. People who find joy in/identify with micro-identities are valid and deserve representation!

• I'm still figuring out my romantic orientation but it's looking less allo by the day lmao

• My romantic label is very fluid, but in terms of sexual labels, very sex repulsed Asexual

• Content with just Aspec cause it's difficult to pinpoint anything but cool with both asexual/ace and aromantic/aro

• I think of my romantic orientation as halfway between aromantic and homoromantic

• I'm a polyamorous ace, if there'd be a way to include that sometimes that'd be neat :)

• I am still questioning my identity

• I used to identify as 100% ace but now I have no idea other than that I seem to be pan-ace in some way shape or form so my identity is ???people???

• Sex/romance repulsed and I have aesthetic attraction

• to clarify: i'm unsure whether or not i am demi or aceflux; so i use graysexual since both labels technically fall under that as an umbrella term.

Queer Rights

• Trans rights, baybee 🤠🦂

• I just hope a-spec and aro-spec people will experience less negativity and hate this year <3

• Aspec rights!!

• aspec rights, baby

People Being Nice to Me (I appreciated this thank you everyone!!)

· :)

• Have a good day

• Uhhh, cool survey, nice to see a lot of labels.... good job! Nothing I have to add, it was great

• Have fun chief, thank you for your work

• Thank you for creating!

• thanks for the survey! I don't know too many aspec in person so I love participating in things like this about the ace/aro community!

• Thank you for what you’re doing

• just hi :)

• thanks!!

• I really love your blog! Reading your posts always makes me happy :) [note: thank you!]

• Good luck, have a nice day !

• I hope you're having a good day :)

• you're lived and valid af!! have a great day!!!

• Thank you for all your hard work i really appreciate it ☺️

• Drink some water Right Now OP

• Nope, :> hope the best for you.

• Cool survey, 10/10 would survey again.

• 💛

• Have a nice day uwu

• Nope! Have a nice day!

• Thank you for making pride flag edits! They're really nice! [note: thank you!!]

• nope, but this is really cool!!

• ❤️

• Have a good day.

• I think this survey idea is super cool! Definitely a great way to see what sort of aspec people are on tumblr :)

• You are doing the lords work

• Thank you for asking us.

• good luck!

• This is really cute idea :)

• I hope you're having a nice day!

• Good luck in your endevours!

• Thank you for making our community visible!

• Have a good day :3

• Have a good day!!

• Keep doing great stuff!

• Thank you for all the positivity I get from your blog! It's super helpful, keep it up :) [note: thank you!!]

• thanks for doing this. recognition is always nice

• Have fun <3

• Lots of love 💛

• This is a cool project, thanks for doing it and good luck! :)

People Saying They Love Me (and I love you, random a-specs)

· i love you OP!!!!!

• love you, hope you have a great day

An A-Spec Person Being Rude to Other A-Specs

• If you enjoy sex with your romantic partner then you are not asexual

A Person Who Is Not A-Spec Being Rude To A-Specs

• sweetie im sorry that you're so insecure that you feel like you have to make up new identities to feel better about yourself. if you are a lesbian or bisexual please know that you are welcome in the community, but other than that making thousands of microlabels like this makes a huge joke out of what was once an important and respected group. nobody takes us seriously anymore because of this shit. does labelling your identity like this really help you with anything? demisexual and fraysexual and all this are just fancy words for normal human feelings that everyone has. there is no need to microlabel it.

Other

· [variations of “no” (12)]

• not sure that helps lmao but still hope it does. all the best

• Axolotls (or as I like to call them, asexulotls) are amazing and I love them [Note: the man in question]

• Sorry, I can't remember the names of any blogs that do edits

• Ok random but the colors of the aro/ace flag? The blue and orange one? They’re gorgeous.

• I'm not so sure if I should use the aroace flag, I feel comfortable using both aro and ace flags, but I don't like the colors for the aroace flag :c [note: these are in chronological order, it’s a total coincidence that these comments are together]

• Curious to see where the survey goes

• It would be cool if you could also do some aplatonic-spectrum edits!

• there were fully half of the terms on that list that i had never even seen before. like, everything below litho down to no label was entirely new to me. at some point i will look into those! (but not right now, my brain is full enough at the moment)

• actually had to look up the majority of these orientations. Thank you for the opportunity to learn!

• Gonna reblog and follow and hopefully learn a bit more, about others and myself

Note: The only comment that is not listed in order is the first comment, which I put at the top because I found it the most important. It’s so important that kids and teens have space to explore their identity and learn about themselves. The reason I made this blog in the first place was because I was 19 and working on figuring out my gender and sexuality. Now that I’m a bit older and understand things better, I’m so glad that I’m able to help people in this way.

I make it a point to be very openly queer in my life and at work because I need LGBTQ+ people, especially youths, to know that we’re here. I’m lucky that I live somewhere that I can be visibly queer and speak about it openly. We are everywhere, and there’s more of us than you think!

Something that I really like about the comments at the top is that they show how diverse we are, and how people use words differently. Some people feel like they’re more aroace than aromantic and asexual separately, and others consider their romantic and sexual orientations to be completely different things.

I definitely relate to the person who identifies are myrromantic and myrsexual with their friends but just says aroace when speaking with people they don’t know as well. I believe a lot of people use different words depending on who they’re speaking with.

#survey results #aphobia cw

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aro-aceplace · 6 years

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Sence we’re getting so many asks about the names for various orientations I thought I would post an updated version of our aspec orientation dictionary. This dictionary also exists here on our blog and is frequently updated, but something screwy is going on with the bolding on that page right now so it might be hard to read. There’s also a copy of it here in the Quicksand font because I find that that’s easier for folks with dyslexia and other LD’s to read then Arial is.

Note: this is not a complete list. A-spec terminology is constantly growing and changing and it’s hard to keep track of every single term, so if I missed an orientation please let me know, I’ll be happy to add it!

-mod Yarrow

Abrosexual/Abroromantic: Having an orientation or feelings about it that constantly change and cannot be pinned down for this reason.

Aceflux/ Aroflux: When someone’s sexual/ romantic orientation fluctuates but always stays on the aro/ace spectrum.

Acespike/ Arospike: When someone usually doesn’t feel sexual/romantic attraction but occasionally rapidly skyrockets into intense attraction, then plummeting down to asexuality/aromanticism again.

Acoromantic/Acosexual: Asexual/Aromantic(spec) because of negative past experiences. (similar to Caedromantic/Caedsexual)

Adfecturomantic/Affecturomantic/Adfectual/Adfomantic: Is someone whose romantic attraction is affected by their neurodivergency.

Aegosexual/Aegoromantic: Feeling attraction and desire only for situations that do not involve one’s self.

Aliquasexual/ Aliquaromantic: Not normally feeling attraction, but feeling it on occasion under specific circumstances.

Amicussexual/Amicusromantic: When you are only attracted to people you’re also platonically attracted to.

Antisexual/Antiromantic: Would rather not develop platonic/romantic/sexual feelings for people, but does anyway.

Apressexual/ Apresromantic: Only feeling attraction after another form of attraction is felt.

Aromantic/ Asexual: When someone doesn’t feel sexual/ romantic attraction to anyone

Arovague/ Acevague: Aromanticism or asexuality that is heavily influenced by neurodiversity (also known as Adfecturomantic / Adfectusexual)

Apresromantic/ Apresexual: An orientation where romantic/sexual attraction is felt only after another type of attraction is formed.

Apothisexual/ Apothiromatic: A specific term for when someone on the asexual/ aromantic spectrum is sex repulsed or romance repulsed. (Also known as ARCsexual/ ARCromantic)

Bellusromantic: When someone is fine with cute fluffy stuff with anyone but doesn’t want a relationship at all.

Burstsexual/ Burstromantic: An orientation where a type of attraction will occur in a sudden burst, then vanish or fade away.

Borearomantic/ Boreasexual: an orientation that seems to revolve around one person in particular. (can also be defined as an exception to one’s orientation, ie, someone who identifies as homosexual/homoromantic feeling attraction to someone of a different gender)

Caedromantic/ Caedsexual: The feeling that romantic or sexual attraction was taken away due to past trauma -for PTSD and trauma survivors

Cassexual/ Cassromantic: Feeling utterly indifferent to attraction, believing it isn’t important.

Ceasesexual/ Ceaseromantic: Usually being allosexual/romantic, but occasionally having a complete loss of attraction for a period of time before feeling it again.

Demisexual/ Demiromantic: When someone is only sexually/ romantically attracted to people they already have a strong emotional connection with.

Dreadsexual/ Dreadromantic: An orientation that fluctuates from feeling no attraction to feeling attraction. When attraction is felt, it is accompanied by a strong feeling of dread or anxiety.

Duosexual/ Duoromantic: Having two or more well-defined orientations that you switch between (e.g. cupiosexual and fraysexual).

Durasexual/Duraromantic: Rarely experiencing attraction, but when it happens it lasts for a long time.

Fictosexual/ Fictoromantic: When someone only feels sexually/romantically attracted to fictional characters.

Freysexual/ Freyromantic: When Someone is sexually/ romantically attracted to those they are less familiar with but after a while, the “excitement” of meeting the new person dies down and you are perfectly content on just being friends.

Greysexual/ Greyromantic: When someone only feels sexual/ romantic attraction rarely. This term can also be a general term for identifying as somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum.

Lamvanosexual/ Iamvanoromantic: Feeling uncomfortable doing sexual/romantic things to someone, but being willing to receive sexual and romantic acts.

Lithsexual/Lithromantic : When someone feels sexual/ romantic attraction towards others and also enjoys romantic/ sexual relationships in theory, but does not need that affection to be reciprocated. An Akoinsexual/ Akoinromantic person may also experience sexual attraction until those feelings are reciprocated. (Also known as Akoinsexual/ Akoinromantic)

Idemromantic: When someone Categorizes relationships and feelings as platonic or romantic but experiences no notable internal differences

Inactoromantic: When someone experiences romantic attraction and wants a romantic relationship but doesn’t like romantic actions. (Also known as initiaromantic.)

Limnosexual/ Limnoromantic: Attraction only piqued by depictions of acts of attraction (eg drawings or writing), not the acts themselves in real life (similar to fictosexual/ fictoromantic).

Malasexual/Malaromantic: When someone only experiences attraction during maladaptive daydreams

Metaromantic: Only experiencing attraction that is unable to be defined by strict terms of platonic or romantic.

Nebula-romantic/ Nebula-sexual: Difficulty distinguishing romantic/sexual and platonic attraction due to neurodiversity

Novisexual/Noviromantic: Feeling complicated attraction or lack thereof in such a way that it is difficult or impossible to fit into one word or term.

Omniaromantic: Is someone who feels no romantic attraction whatsoever. In no way, shape, or form do they fall in love or feel any attraction to anyone. They are asensual, have no aesthetic attraction to others, and no squishes. They can experience platonic love or familial love, though not all do so. This term was made to make a distinction between being on the aromantic spectrum and specify from the common definition of aromantic person, since saying someone is “aromantic” could mean they could be demiromantic, gray-aromantic, and such other types of aromantics who do feel sensual, have aesthetic attraction and such.