Arospike

Arospike is an orientation on the aromantic spectrum defined as someone who usually feels no romantic attraction, but occasionally has rare, sudden, and intense spikes of romantic attraction for a short amount of time, before returning, just as suddenly, to one's normal amounts of aromanticism.

Arospike can be a romantic orientation on its own or can combined with other orientations. For example, one could be arospike and Pan, meaning that when one does experience romantic attraction it can be towards people of any gender.

History
The coiner and the coining date of arospike are currently unknown.

Subsets

 * Aroacespike

Flags
The creator of the arospike flag has been credited to Cyzu of tumblr blog Pride-Flags-For-Us, but the blog has since been privated or deactivated. The flag was possibly created on or before August 10, 2015.

Some other alternate flags were designed based on the original by Deviantart user Pride-Flags. The two flags Pride-Flags made were posted on Deviantart on August 18, 2015, along with one made by tumblr blog Pride-Flags-For-Us.

A redesigned arospike flag was created by tumblr user I-Love-My-Trans-Body alongside an acespike and an aroacespike flag on February 21st, 2020. Tumblr user Whimsy-Flags made a redesign of I-Love-My-Trans-Body's design shortly after, on March 20, 2020.