☆ Aprespronominal is a term for when a person only feels comfortable being referred to with certain pronouns by people close to them. People who are not close to the person cannot use those pronouns, and would instead use different or no pronouns for this person.
☆ An example of this could be:
An individual is aprespronominal with he/him pronouns. People are expected to use they/them to refer to this person, but close friends are permitted to use he/him to refer to them.
☆ I think the definition of "people close to you" is a bit vague, but I don't want the definition to be too strict. It's meant to be a broad term, so "person close to you" is completely subjective and it's up to the person identifying with the label to determine what "people close to you" means.
☆ In the same vein it doesn't have to be... mutually exclusive, I guess? In my above example of someone who uses they/them but is aprespronominal to he/him, that could mean that people close to them should use he/him only, but it could also mean that he/him AND they/them are okay. Both are valid interpretations of aprespronominal. Ask the individual!
☆ I made this term on the 20th of January, 2023. Flag was made on the same day. I've been meaning to put my backlog of already made terms on this account, so it's nice to start with one of the terms I'm happiest with!
☆ I put a lot of thought into the colours I picked for this flag! I looked up colours that represented connection and found that green was typically used to symbolise it. That was important to me so I then inverted the shade of green I settled on to get that shade of pink, which is meant to symbolise the lack of connection/closeness that's also present. The black (it's technically grey to make the gradient nicer on the eyes, but it's meant to be black) is to represent the absence or lack of those pronouns for people who are not close to the individual.
