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Aces and aros have sometimes been accused of appropriating the term "a-spec" from the autistic community. This is impossible, as the term was created in 2015 specifically for aces and aros and has no prior usage history before that point.<ref>https://historicallyace.tumblr.com/post/161502315942/do-you-per-chance-know-when-asexuals-first</ref><ref>https://apersnicketylemon.tumblr.com/post/189192893072/aspec-does-not-and-has-never-meant-autism</ref>
With the ace and aro communities, use of the term "a-spec" has also been criticized for introducing confusion through frequent misuse, particularly regarding asexuals using "a-spec" when only ace-spec
== History ==
The term a-spectrum was introduced by Tumblr users warriorsdebt, whes, and strategicgoat in 2015.<ref>https://warriorsdebt.tumblr.com/post/157795101420/wetwareproblem-aphobephobe-wetwareproblem</ref>
== Flag ==
The a-spec flag was created by Tumblr user The-Moon-Is-Aroace on March 25, 2019.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200809185542/https://the-moon-is-aroace.tumblr.com/post/183702972387/a-new-flag-for-the-aspec-community-just-an-idea-i</ref> The compass rose in the middle is a symbol of how
The aloe vera a-spec flag was designed by Tumblr users Sapphic-Squirrel and Hetaces with help from the Inclusionist Discord Server and was posted on November 17, 2019.<ref>https://sapphic-squirrel.tumblr.com/post/189130109062/hello-everyone-i-want-to-present-a-community-flag</ref> It was designed to mimic the [[sapphic]], [[achillean]], [[diamoric]], and [[pluralian]] flags with three stripes and one plant. The green is for aromantics, the purple for asexuals, and grey is for the grey area between a- identities and [[Allosexual|allo-]] identities (which would represent [[Greyasexual|greyasexuals]], [[Greyromantic|greyromantics]], [[Demisexual|demisexuals]], [[Demiromantic|demiromantics]], other [[Mesi Aromantic|mesi aros]], [[Mesi Asexual|mesi aces]], [[Split Attraction Model (SAM)|split attraction]] users, and those that don't have solid labels but know they are somewhere under the umbrellas of asexual or aromantic.)
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