lusiromantic | lusirose | lusisexual
lusirose version 2 | lusiqueerplatonic
lusiaesthetic | lusiplatonic
lusisensual | lusialterous
lusiromantic: someone who is fully or mostly aromantic, but tricks themselves into believing that they reciprocate another’s romantic attraction for some time after that person expresses their attraction. similar to recipromantic, but rather than a lusiromantic person actually reciprocating those feelings, they only believe that they do.
lusirose/lusiaroace: someone who is fully or mostly aroace, but tricks themselves into believing that they reciprocate another’s romantic and sexual attraction for some time after that person expresses their attraction. similar to reciprose/reciparoace, but rather than a lusirose/lusiaroace person actually reciprocating those feelings, they only believe that they do.
lusisexual: someone who is fully or mostly asexual, but tricks themselves into believing that they reciprocate another’s sexual attraction for some time after that person expresses their attraction. similar to reciprosexual, but rather than a lusisexual person actually reciprocating those feelings, they only believe that they do.
lusiqueerplatonic/lusiquasiplatonic: someone who is fully or mostly aqueerplatonic/aquasiplatonic, but tricks themselves into believing that they reciprocate another’s queerplatonic/quasiplatonic attraction for some time after that person expresses their attraction. similar to recipqueerplatonic/recipquasiplatonic, but rather than a lusiqueerplatonic/lusiquasiplatonic person actually reciprocating those feelings, they only believe that they do.
lusiaesthetic: someone who is fully or mostly a-aesthetic, but tricks themselves into believing that they reciprocate another’s aesthetic attraction for some time after that person expresses their attraction. similar to reciproaesthetic, but rather than a lusiaesthetic person actually reciprocating those feelings, they only believe that they do.
lusiplatonic: someone who is fully or mostly aplatonic, but tricks themselves into believing that they reciprocate another’s platonic attraction for some time after that person expresses their attraction. similar to reciproplatonic, but rather than a lusiplatonic person actually reciprocating those feelings, they only believe that they do.
lusisensual: someone who is fully or mostly asensual, but tricks themselves into believing that they reciprocate another’s sensual attraction for some time after that person expresses their attraction. similar to reciprosensual, but rather than a lusisensual person actually reciprocating those feelings, they only believe that they do.
lusialterous: someone who is fully or mostly analterous, but tricks themselves into believing that they reciprocate another’s alterous attraction for some time after that person expresses their attraction. similar to reciproalterous, but rather than a lusialterous person actually reciprocating those feelings, they only believe that they do.
more revamps of old terms and flags of mine! i both didn’t fully express the definition of the terms and didn’t like my flags, so i wanted to refresh them.
the flags use the top stripe of the recipro- flags to represent the fabricated attraction, white/grey/black to represent the grey areas of these orientations and the confusion they cause, and the bottom stripe (or two stripes) represents the actual lack of attraction being experienced.
the prefix ‘lusi-’ is a reference to the word ‘illusion’, since the attraction a lusi- person believes they feel is not real. also, for me, the experience of this term is inherently linked to my anxiety, but i decided to leave mentions of mental health out of the definitions because i don’t feel that these should be exclusive to mentally ill or neurodivergent people.
dni transcript here