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Varioriented aroace (shortened to variaroace) refers to someone who is on both the aromantic and asexual spectrums, but is not strictly aromantic and/or asexual, and has "mismatching" romantic and sexual orientations. Demiromantic asexual, aromantic fraysexual, or lithromantic greysexual are all examples of varioriented aroace individuals, because they are on both the aromantic and asexual spectrums (aroace) and have mismatching orientation labels.
This may also apply to greyrose heteroromantic bisexual people, and demirose biromantic homosexual people, for example, as they have different affinitive orientations, even though their amative orientations are similar.
Individuals who do not identify with either a romantic orientation or a sexual orientation, such as non-SAM aros, can also use this term.
History and Flag
The term variorented aroace was coined by Tumblr user Varioriented-pride on April 10, 2019[1]. The flag was created in the same post. The blue stripe comes from the oriented aroace flag, used to represent shared aroace-ness. Grey represents the grey area in romantic and asexual orientations. Light yellow comes from the aromantic allosexual flag. Red comes from the alloromantic asexual flag.