A description of selected experiences, not an identity
Read the specific statements, their context and missing information. Five separate readings remain open without assigning an orientation or type.
Three numeric ratings required; raw sum / 3. Agreement with the statements, not an attraction count, probability or population rank.
Similarity across your own experiences
This part asks whether qualities involved in sexual attraction remained similar at different points in the selected year, whether later attraction resembled earlier attraction and whether separate experiences had a familiar kind of appeal. A higher mean records agreement with continuity in those descriptions. It is not a measure of a fixed sexual orientation, lifelong stability or predictability. The form does not ask which genders, individuals or physical features were involved, and it cannot reconstruct those details from the number.
Familiar appeal in a different encounter
For example, you might experience attraction to different people while recognising a familiar quality of appeal across those experiences. This does not require attraction to the same person or a particular relationship history. The example is about your subjective experience of sexual attraction, not sexual activity, desire for an activity or bodily arousal alone. If those experiences are not distinguishable to you in a relevant situation, choosing unscored is more accurate than rating what you think should have occurred.
A comparison needs experiences to compare
If no suitable sexual-attraction experiences occurred, or if the year offers no meaningful earlier and later comparison, leave the relevant statements unscored. An absence of comparison is not proof of a narrow, steady, fluid or absent orientation. Each part requires three numeric answers, so one missing rating withholds only that part’s mean. The website does not ask you to seek new experiences or reveal a history to fill the gap. The full explanation is available whether or not a number appears.
The average does not preserve every change
Some qualities might feel familiar while others change, and the three statements may receive different ratings. Similar means can therefore conceal different individual patterns. A single year also excludes much of a person’s life and includes unequal opportunities to experience attraction. The form supplies no norm, percentile or reliable-change threshold. A later attempt with a different set of experiences cannot establish whether any difference is permanent, caused by a situation or large enough to have a particular meaning.
Continuity can coexist with variation and breadth
You could report a familiar range of appeal over time while experiencing different attraction in different emotional contexts. You could also have a varied range that remains consistently varied. The context-variation and breadth parts are not reverse scores for this mean. None is a dominant identity or a better result. The separate Mini reflection asks about recognising and describing a pattern; clarity about a pattern is different from reporting that it actually stayed similar across experiences.
An optional note about a familiar quality
If reflection would help, privately consider one quality that felt familiar across two suitable experiences. You need not name the people, describe bodies or acts, retain a note or compare yourself with anyone else. It is equally fine not to find a useful example. This activity is not an exercise in preserving an orientation or proving consistency. You may stop after reading, leave the part unscored or return to your own words rather than use the questionnaire’s topic names.
Three agreement ratings, with missing information retained
Use 1 Strongly Disagree, 2 Disagree, 3 Neutral, 4 Agree or 5 Strongly Agree. Three is a numeric neutral answer, not uncertainty or missing experience. Each part needs all three numeric ratings; its raw sum divided by three is displayed to one decimal. Ratings of one, two and four give seven divided by three, displayed as 2.3. Any unscored response withholds that part’s mean without zero, midpoint substitution or inference. All fifteen prompts need a response choice to finish, including unscored choices. No total, rank or dominant part is calculated.
An original reflection, not a standard orientation scale
These fifteen bilingual statements and five guides are original FermatMind content, without psychometric validation or population norms. AUREA and AVEN community resources inform the background distinction between romantic attraction, sexual attraction, identity, behaviour and arousal; their pages do not supply this bank or a scoring key. This is not an administration of Kinsey, Klein or another published instrument. Identity language remains your choice. Answers stay in current page memory, without saved drafts, quiz-flow statistics or personal-result sharing. Public guides remain available even when every part is unscored.