#apresential

[chiropire]

Aspec flag

[PT: aspec flag. /End PT.]

[Image ID: 2 flags, both with 9 equal horizontal stripes. Each stripe is a different colour. The order of colours goes; black, purple, pink, orange, white, green, teal, blue, and black. The flag on the right is dimmer/less saturated than the flag on the left. End ID]

Decided to make an alternative aspec flag since all the others only really included aro and ace, with apl on the off chance, completely forgetting all the other aspec labels. There is this flag that I like, but I wanted to make a flag that felt more inclusive to me.

Each colour represents something different. Here is what they represent:

Black - Anattraction. Those who do experience some form/bit of attraction/gender but are still aspec.

Purple - Aexual

Pink - A-Aesthetic, Aemotional, it's also in a few Atertiary flags

Orange - Asensual

White - lack of (white is the absence of colour in paint)

Green - Aromantic and Agender

Teal - Aqueerplatonic and Apresential

Blue - Analterous and Aplatonic

White & Black also represent the diversity of the aspec community and the broadness of the aspec label. They also represent every other aspec label not otherwise represented by the colours

[tothestarstothenight]

we wish there was a popular term for aspecs that aren't arospec or acespec, cause if we search aspec 90% of everything is for arospecs & acespecs, including posts that are amisic to non aro/ace-specs

we should have a community term we can search by for us specifically.

[mourningmogaicrew]

Presential attraction

Flags in order from top left to bottom right: presential attraction, apresential, apres-spec, demipresential, autopresential, fraypresential, cupiopresential, apresflux, aprespike.

Presential attraction: attraction based on wanting to know someone through their physical presence.

Presential attraction is the opposite of virtudinal attraction. This is a type of tertiary attraction (or physical attraction) and is not the same as wanting to know someone IRL or wanting physical contact/touch.

Apresential: not experiencing presential attraction.

Apres-spec: experiencing atypical or little presential attraction.

Demipresential: only experiencing presential attraction to someone after you form a(n emotional) connection to them.

Greypresential: experiencing atypical presential attraction (or relating to apresential experiences but not fully).

Autopresential: experiencing presential attraction to yourself (more than is typical). Examples may include wanting to spend time with (a version of) yourself or wanting to be in your own physical presence.

Fraypresential: experiencing presential attraction to someone when you first meet them or get to know them, but then the attraction fades after you form a stronger connection to them. The opposite of demipresential.

Cupiopresential: not experiencing presential attraction, but still desiring a relationship based off presential attraction or physically spending a lot of time with someone (ex: living with them or just enjoying their presence).

Apresflux: when your orientation fluctuates on the apres spectrum. Some people may become allopresential or completely apresential at times, others just have small changes in the amount of presential attraction they feel.

Aprespike: usually feeling no or very little presential attraction, but sometimes having (more intense) spikes of attraction before returning to baseline.

Flags are based off the original presential attraction flag (eyestrain warning if you click on the link), the demi/greysexual flags, the auto-spec flag, the fray/cupiosexual flags, and the aceflux/spike flags.

Also please note that there is a cool presential flag redesign here (eyestrain warning again) but I wanted to go even simpler/less like the original with mine.

Presential attraction (AKA tangible attraction) was coined in 2018 and the flag was made in 2021, this is just me making some subterms!

Flag IDs in alt text.

[chiropire]

NeuroAspec

[PT: neuroaspec. /End PT.]

[Image ID: 4 separate flags, all with 9 equal horizontal stripes. Each stripe is a different colour. The order of colours goes; black, purple, pink, orange, white, green, teal, blue, and black. The first flag has a black infinity symbol in the centre of it. The second flag has a grey infinity symbol in the centre of it. The third flag has a white infinity symbol in the centre of it. The last flag has a thick rainbow infinity symbol in the centre of it. End ID]

Same flags as above, just less saturated.

Based on this flag with the same colour meanings

Definition: Neuroaspec is an identity/label in which one feels like their neurodivergence affects / is connected to / intertwined with their a-spec identity.

Exclusive to neurodivergent folk. Transx/TransID DNI.

Coined by me, date 28/05/2024 (Originally part of the linked post but I wanted them separate).

There are 4 different versions because I couldn't decide between just one. I made one with a grey infinity symbol bc a lot of a-spec flags have grey in them and I wanted to have grey in it as well, but without giving the flag too many stripes.