Demiromanticspike, also known as Exceptional-Demiromantic is a term for someone who is normally demiromantic, and requires a strong emotional connect with someone before feeling romantic attraction. However, they occasionally experience rare cases where they feel romantic attraction without having an emotional connection.
The sexual equivalent is demisexualspike.
Flag meaning
New/Alternative Flag: Green is to represent the aro community, as it is in the aroromantic umbrella. From lighter to darker to show change, lighter green means no attraction and the darkest green shows attraction. Spike is to show the chances where attraction differs from usual. Colours by name are: light #CDFAB5, darker but still light #B5E899, more dark #85C263 and the darkest #58883C.
History
Demispike was coined on the LGBTA wiki by the user LittlePrettyKittyAlly and MaxTheTransGuy on October 18, 2020.[1] The flag was created by MaxTheTransGuy on October 19, 2020.
The new alternative flag was created by FootAkaHailey on June 6th of 2022.