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== Etymology ==
==Pronunciation==
== Romantic Attraction ==
This can make it difficult to identify when one is aromantic, especially when one has trouble distinguishing between romantic feelings and platonic feelings. If this is the case one might identify as [[platoniromantic]], [[idemromantic]], [[nebularomantic]], [[sensualarian]] or [[quoiromantic]].
== Aromantic Flag and Symbols ==
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[[File:Aromantic (2).png|thumb|The first proposed aromantic flag.|alt=]]▼
Aromantic (3).png|The initial version of the most widely used Aromantic flag (CameronWhimsy, February 2014)
The first proposed aromantic flag had four stripes. Green, because it's the opposite of red, the most commonly associated romance color. Yellow, representing platonic love, because yellow roses represent friendship. Orange, for [[Greyromantic|greyromantics]], because it's in between red and yellow. And black, representing [[Allosexual|alloromantics]] that "reject traditional ideas of romance". This flag was later changed because it closely resembled the Rastafarian flag, and because it had a stripe representing alloromantics. ▼
▲ [[File:Aromantic (2).png |thumb| The first proposed aromanticAromantic flag (Aromantic.|alt=]]org, Unknown year)
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The most widely known and widely used Aromantic flag is the five striped green and monochrome flag made by tumblr user CameronWhimsy on August 22, 2014.<ref>https://cameronwhimsy.tumblr.com/post/95390502718/usually-i-dont-do-this-but-i-found-that-new-and</ref> The flag was a redesign of VameronWhimsy's first flag proposal where the white was originally a yellow stripe, the one made one February 7, 2014.<ref>https://cameronwhimsy.tumblr.com/post/75868343112/ive-been-reading-up-on-a-lot-of-the-discussion</ref> It was changed due to it causing sensory problems for certain individuals. The meaning of the stripe changed from the first initial concept to what it represents now.<ref>https://cameronwhimsy.tumblr.com/post/102698477928/whoops-yeah-i-just-realised-i-never-actually-made</ref>
*Green and Light Green : The Aromantic Spectrum and every identity under it.
*White : The platonic stripe, representing friendship, aesthetic attraction, queerplatonic relationships, family, and the importance and validity of all non-romantic relationships, feelings, and forms of love.
*Grey and Black : The sexuality stripe, representing the diversity of every Aro's sexual identities.
▲ The first proposed aromanticAromantic flag, the one that came from the old Aromantic.org website, had four stripes. Green, because it's the opposite of red, the most commonly associated romance color. Yellow, representing platonic love, because yellow roses represent friendship. Orange, for [[Greyromantic|greyromanticsGreyromantics]], because it's in between red and yellow. And black, representing [[Allosexual|alloromanticsAlloromantics]] that "reject traditional ideas of romance". This flag was later changed because it closely resembled the Rastafarian flag, and because it had a stripe representing alloromantics.
Another aromantic flag was coined by [[User:Cryptocrew|Cryptocrew]] at [[User:Hayden000|Hayden000s]] request on January 16th of16, 2021 and was first published on a post one day later. The yellow flower represents platonic love or [[Alterous Attraction|alterous]]/queerplatonic and desires, dark green represents lack of romantic attraction, light green represents the greyromantic spectrum, the black represents a disconnect or disinterest in romantic acts, the upside-down white hearts represent community and how aromantic people can love, just not how people expect them to.
There are several other symbols used to represent aromantics and aromantic love. One is an arrow, due to aromantic often being shortened to aro, which is pronounced the same way. Like asexuals, aromantics also use the symbol of the spades to represent themselves, and [[aroace]] people especially use the ace of spades. Also similar to asexuals, some aromantic people wear a white ring on the middle finger of their left hand (the opposite hand of the black asexual ring). Aromantics have also started using the symbol of a green heart, representing non-romantic love. An older, lesser used, symbol is an aardvark which seems to have originated from a meme.