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== Aromantic Flag and Symbols ==
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The term aromantic was first coined in an AVEN thread titled 'Relationship Definitions' in June 2005.<ref>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/9433-relationship-definitions/</ref> While this is not the first use of the [[Split Attraction Model (SAM)|split attraction model]] it is one of the first mentions of the term Aromantic. After this there is very little mention of Aromanticism until 2010, when Aromanticism begin to gain a community on AVEN.
==Gallery==
=== Flags ===
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Aromantic.png | The most widely used Aromantic flag, a redesign. (CameronWhimsy, August 2014)
Another aromantic flag was coined by [[User:Cryptocrew|Cryptocrew]] at [[User:Hayden000|Hayden000s]] request on January 16, 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.
===Symbols===
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.
== Resources ==
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