Aroace Quiz
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Familiar; I readily recognize that response in myself.
- Recognizable, but only from occasional or highly specific experiences.
- Difficult to separate from finding someone beautiful, compelling, or interesting.
- Mostly unfamiliar as a personal experience, even if I understand the concept.
- Regularly enough that it is a familiar part of my life.
- Occasionally, often under limited or specific conditions.
- Very rarely, or so ambiguously that I have difficulty identifying it.
- I do not recognize person-directed sexual attraction in my experience.
- I recognize a genuine sense of romantic excitement about that possibility.
- I might develop romantic feelings, but usually only after particular kinds of closeness.
- I care deeply about them, but I would struggle to tell whether that feeling is romantic.
- I would want to preserve the bond without romance because I do not feel a romantic pull.
Aroace Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
Readers exploring the relationship between attraction and identity can use this questionnaire to organize experiences that may be difficult to name. The aroace quiz helps compare reported attraction patterns with the usefulness of identity language, showing which parts of the picture fit together and which remain uncertain. Someone wondering whether aroace language fits can use this reflection on aroace identity to notice what feels familiar, conditional, unclear, or absent.
What This Assessment Explores
Romantic and sexual items distinguish person-directed attraction from aesthetic appreciation, libido, arousal, affection, friendship, and closeness. This matters here: this questionnaire does not treat a meaningful bond or bodily response as automatic evidence of romantic or sexual attraction.
It asks whether aroace language feels useful for identity exploration. Results describe resonance while leaving room for spectrum terms, uncertainty, or no label.
The three result dimensions are:
- Aroace Identity Resonance (0-15) reflects personal usefulness and resonance with the framework: Limited resonance (0-5), Emerging/partial resonance (6-10), or Strong resonance (11-15).
- Romantic Attraction Pattern (0-15) reflects alignment with aromantic-spectrum experiences: Romantic attraction is familiar (0-5), Limited or conditional resonance (6-10), or Strong aromantic-spectrum resonance (11-15).
- Sexual Attraction Pattern (0-15) reflects alignment with asexual-spectrum experiences: Sexual attraction is familiar (0-5), Limited or conditional resonance (6-10), or Strong asexual-spectrum resonance (11-15).
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Each prompt presents a situation involving attraction, closeness, identity language, or bodily experience. Four ordered responses move from familiar or recurring experiences through occasional or conditional recognition to ambiguity or nonrecognition. This helps separate attraction from arousal, appreciation, affection, and chosen behavior.
Scores are organized by dimension, allowing romantic and sexual patterns rather than one category. The question of whether the aroace label fits someone's experience remains nuanced: this attraction pattern questionnaire shows one form as familiar, another conditional, and the identity language useful without certainty.
The interpretation is conceptually consistent with Antonsen et al. (2020), which examines differences in romantic attraction among people identifying as asexual. Brotto et al. (2010) and Brotto and Yule (2011) likewise distinguish subjective attraction from arousal, libido, and physiological response. These studies support these distinctions but do not validate this online questionnaire.
The displayed bands show degrees of resonance or alignment within dimensions rather than fixed thresholds; no score assigns an orientation or requires a label. Context, self-awareness, and language can shape self-report, so an aroace self-reflection may change as understanding develops.
- Antonsen, Amy N., Bozena Zdaniuk, Morag Yule, and Lori A. Brotto. (2020). Ace and Aro: Understanding Differences in Romantic Attractions Among Persons Identifying as Asexual. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(5), 1615-1630. 10.1007/s10508-019-01600-1
- Brotto, Lori A., Gail Knudson, Jess Inskip, Katherine Rhodes, and Yvonne Erskine. (2010). Asexuality: a mixed-methods approach. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39(3), 599-618. 10.1007/s10508-008-9434-x
- Brotto, Lori A., and Morag A. Yule. (2011). Physiological and subjective sexual arousal in self-identified asexual women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(4), 699-712. 10.1007/s10508-010-9671-7