#autospec coining

[squidfreak]

NPD autospec & persodivergent autospec

A flag for people with NPD that are also autospec or persodivergent and autospec!

Requested by an anon!

[cocajimmycola]

amauto

a term for when one is autospec and amasui, amasui because they are autospec, or autospec because they are amasui.

based off of this autosexual flag by @daybreakthing & the amasui flag.

taglist: @radiomogai @smilepilled @ballerinoloverboy @amasuiarchive

[clownshifting]

Autoling

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auto (self) - ling (being of...)

Genders: Any/All. Genders attracted to: Any/All in relation to themselves.

An autoling is a person primarily attracted to themselves. This can include any form of attraction (sexual, queerplatonic, etc.) and is made to be used as an umbrella term for autospec attraction labels.

An autoling is not always exclusively attracted to themselves, their attributes, and their being as a whole. Experiences may include but are not related to self pleasure, mirrors, clones, and plurality.

The reason for coining this term is to speak about autospec attraction with a condensed label and create a stronger culture around the autospectrum. Attraction is not inherently sexual, autoling is better in terms of talking about a person - not an experience - and autosexual being the only well-known one is not healthy to discussing our experiences and ways of attraction. Autolings are people who are attracted to themselves in any way, and so our terminology and such are bound to mirror that. Autoling and autospec identities also disavow the identities of autogynophilia and autoandrophilia, as they are anti-trans dogwhistles, wrongly conflated with autosexuality.

Autolings are people, autosexuality is an orientation - and that distinction is important.

History

Auto-, originating from the Greek word for "self", is used to reference autospec identities here. Myra T. Johnson, who wrote a paper in 1977 called Asexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups, detailing the contrast between asexuality and auto-sexual behaviors - where she stated that asexuals (specifically women) have little to no desire while autosexuals has such desire, with little to no desire to satisfy them with someone else. She used the term "autosexual" here in reference to sexual activity with oneself.

Autosexual was later defined by sex therapist Bernard Apfelbaum in 1989, who defined autosexuals as people who did not respond well to the intimate touch of anyone else besides themselves. Autoeroticism in all species has most likely existed since the first animal, as it is known that dolphins and apes engage in self-pleasuring behaviors, not just humans. In human history, there have been an abundance of stories regarding autolings that goes beyond just autoeroticism, as allos can experience autoeroticism too.

Many claim that autolings are not aspec and are not under the aspec umbrella (or that their place is conditional), but from the earliest mention of autosexual - it has been in relation and in comparison to aspec peoples. The coiner of the first flag acknowledges the aspec roots, and so does AVEN, a notable aspec community forum and network. Stating that only exclusive autolings are aspec is saying that aspec people in relationships or who enjoy desire for the feeling are no longer aspec. This is an already argued topic.

Flag and Symbols

There are currently 14 autosexual flags.

Ruin made the first autosexual flag, blue and gray with/or without the heart in 2011.

In 2017, ask-pride-color-schemes remade this flag with cleaner lines, a different heart shape, and a darker red. These are the color meanings. They also included autoro, autosensual, etc.

On November 21st, 2020, a user named Ruthie/Anamika made an alternative autosexual flag, this time with gradients.

On December 4th, 2020, user neopronouns made multiple autospec flags, this one representing autosexual.

On June 1st, 2022, a user named Foxwell posts their version of the autosexual flag based off the original flag.

On July 19th, 2022, user crispnuqqet uploaded another version.

User cocajimmycola makes this autosexual flag on January 12th, 2023.

User revenant-coining makes this autosexual flag on January 12th, 2023.

May 12th, 2023, user findingflags makes this autosexual/autophilic flag.

May 18th, 2023, user skh0lstun-flagz makes this autosexual flag.

October 15th, 2023, user arqueerus makes this autosexual flag alongside others like autoromantic, and autorose.

On May 27th, 2024, another autosexual pride flag was made by starstruck-webslinger, which takes it's colors from the original autosexual flag and the asexual flag.

Satyrradio made this pride flag for autosexuals on June 28th, 2024.

May 2nd of 2025, en8y made this autosexual flag, colorpicked from hisuian zorua.

Autolings have multiple symbols as well, like the autospectrum symbol made by kenochoric.

The symbol made by shk0lstun-flagz.

The symbol made by Ruthie during their flag's creation.

Cleaned version of the original symbol.

Terminology

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Autoling - a person primarily attracted to themselves in any way.

Self-partnership - "being committed to oneself, being a partner or significant other to oneself."

Sologamy - a form of autoling bonding which often results in dating or marriage. sologamy sometimes just means "self-marriage".

Non-partnering - "a person who does not wish to form a significant partnership with others." can include autolings who are strictly self-partnering.

Crown - similar to monogamous rings or asexual rings, a crown is a symbol of sologamy, autoling bonds, and/or self-partnership.

Autore - a shorthand of autoresexual/romantic, where someone is primarily attracted to their intimate thoughts and fantasies, but not to themselves.

Mirroring - the act of intimately gazing into your reflection as an autoling. can also overlap with mirror gazing and scrying if need be as a method of communication.

Selfcest/Amasui - intimate activity between an autoling and themselves. usually referring to dating, sex, or cuddling a clone.

Syntrib - a shorthand for syntribation.

System-Partnership - "a type of relationship in which two or more members of the same system are intimately involved with one another."

Virch - an autoling label that denotes one who is masculine, manly, or butch in terms of their love for themselves. can be presentation, could be a descriptor for their love. can replace AAP and beliefs.

Mulle - an autoling label that denotes one who is feminine, womanly, or femme in terms of their love for themselves. can be presentation, could be a descriptor for their love. can replace AGP and beliefs.

Hydra - an autoling label that denotes one who is femmasc, wo/manly, or futch in terms of their love for themselves. can be presentation, could be a descriptor for their love.

Teraph - an autoling label that denotes one who is feral, beastly, or monstrous in terms of their love for themselves. can be presentation, could be a descriptor for their love.

Atamor - an autoling who is a partner, either to someone else or themselves. atamor includes headmates in love with the body and external people.

Mi/Mye - alternative autoling pronouns, used when referring to the self in third person, or when discussing oneself as a partner rather than first person. "Mi can't have walnuts, mye lips will swell."

Amose - "auto-attraction that refers to loving oneself or other versions of oneself."

Plurautonic - "attraction between members of the same system that feels auto-spec as a result of them sharing the same body."

Hyto - "short bursts of attraction towards themselves."

[en8y]

[IMAGE ID: two horizontal flags, with seven equally-sized stripes each. each flag has a clover-like shape, made of four intertwined hearts, making a square in the center. it is white, with a black outline. the first flag's colors, from top to bottom, are as follows: dull purple, warm purple, dark warm purple, dark cool purple, black, dark grey, and light grey. the second flag's colors, from top to bottom, are as follows: light grey, medium grey, cool grey, dark grey, black, dark grey, and light grey. END ID.]

autopitchrom: a term for someone who experiences pitch attraction to themself, alternate versions of themself, or beings who could be considered them.

autoashenrom: a term for someone who experiences ashen attraction to themself, alternate versions of themself, or beings who could be considered them.

autospec symbol from here!

@radiomogai @liom-archive @obscurian @dragonpride17 @orientation-archive @libnius

[divinescannibalism]

୨ 🤍 ୧ — autoreself ｡

✦ : an autospec label for when one is attracted to their real self in any way !

requested by : no one ) self indulgent .

etimology : auto + re(al) self

[pt: autoreself

an autospec label for when one is attracted to their real self in any way/end pt]

with different symbols under cut

[ix-c-999]

plurautonic

"Plurautonic" is a word to describe attraction that between members of the same system that feels auto-spec as a result of them sharing the same body. This could be an identity (e.g. calling yourself plurautonic to emphasize that you prefer in-sys relationships and view that as auto-spec) or a descriptor of feelings (e.g. not identifying with being auto-spec but feeling that an individual relationship within your system is a plurautonic relationship). For system members who do not want to use "plurautonic" as an identity but feel that they have in-system relationships that fit that description, they can call their relationships "plurautoniships".

[This post has no DNI other than not to involve it in discourse, mockery, or other harassment]

[our-autospec-experience]

is there a term where you love yourself romantically and sexually, but also dont mind loving others romantically/sexually?

I think you can still just use autospec ones! :D I've seen some places say that being autospec means loving exclusively yourself, but really it's not that rigid. No rule says autospecs have to love only themselves and not other people too.

Just use what feels best to you! If that's autospec labels, that's great! If it's just labels about your attraction to others, awesome! If it's both or neither, that's good too.

If you're asking for a specific label for that, there isn't an existing one that I know or have heard of. The autospec coining tags are great to look in for that type of thing, and if there's nothing there that you like, you could always make your own label!

[flexible-attraction-culutre-is]

Promo Time!

What’s your experience? What’s your idenity? You are welcome here to share your flexible/aniso attraction experiences, the funny, the sad, the angering, your experiences are here to be heard!

This culture is blog is dedicated to the flexible/aniso terms such as, Heteroflexible, Homoflexible, Biflexible, Aceflexible, Aroflexible, etc!

(Tags, if want to be removed please tell me!) @autospec-culture-is, @butch-culture-is, @gender-mailman, @revenant-coining, @radiomogai, @aniso-pride, @varioriented-pride

[companionwolf]

words are stupid <- he's frustrated bc he hates the word self/cest, doesn't feel comfy with ama/sui as a alternative, isn't quite sure autospec labels fit his experience, and is hesitant on the term charidem (coined by @/neopronouns) for a few reasons; ultimately I use mirrorship/mirrorshipping but that doesn't work well as a standalone term imo (in the sense of use as a noun? idk)

[puppymedz]

I couldn't find any cute auto + mlm etc flags so I made them myself

[squidfreak]

Autosituationship

A flag for beings who are autospec, and have a situationship type of relationship with themselves. A situationship is a romantic and/or sexual relationship between two people that lacks commitment and clear definitions, but in this case, it's between you and yourself!

Flags stripes meaning!

Red stripe - Lack of commitment

Orange stripe - Confusing feelings and/or boundaries on the relationship status or its labels.

Yellow stripe - Casual dating, friend with benefits, being a fling with yourself, etc.

White stripe - Ones own personal auto identity

Baby Blue stripe - Romantic aspect of the situationship

Lavender stripe - Platonic aspect of the situationship

Pinkish stripe - Sexual aspect of the situationship

[the-coiner-prince]

Idealisuisexual

[ ideali(sed) + sui + sexual ~~ idealisuisexual ]

A label in the autospec for when one experiences sexual attraction ( exclusively or not ) towards an idealised version of oneself .

Etymology :

Sui means oneself in Latin

[ flag ID : four rectangular flags with seven horizontal stripes , the colours from top to bottom are : dark blue , orange , mustard yellow , light yellow , sand , grey , amd black . in the center of the second , third and fourth flag there are symbols that represent the autospec , all involving looping hearts . end ID ]

Coined by the prince 👑

[ PT : Anyone can use the terms that the charming has coined , but ke asks to Please DNI if any of these aply to you: racist, sexist, ageist, antimogai, antiliom, BaB, ableist, transmed, transcum, fujoshi, radfem, terf, proshipper, anti-agere, antifurry, NSFW blogs, (NO)MAP, zoophile, necrophiliac, incestuous or supporter of those who act on these types of paraphilias. end PT ]

[hypnosiacon-archived]

Autoprevioc: An autospec label for experiencing attraction of any kind to previous versions of oneself.

✖ Requested by Anon !

[en8y]

[IMAGE ID: three horizontal flags, with seven equally-sized stripes each. each flag has a clover-like shape, made of four intertwined hearts, making a square in the center. it is white, with a black outline. the first flag's colors, from top to bottom, are as follows: cool grey, warm pink, dull red, dark warm purple, black, dark grey, and light grey. the second flag's colors, from top to bottom, are as follows: pastel pink, warm pink, bright red, dull red, black, dark grey, and light grey. the third flag's colors, from top to bottom, are as follows: dark cool grey, cool grey, dull purple, dark warm purple, black, dark grey, and light grey. END ID.]

autoquadrom: a term for someone who experiences quadrant(s)-related attraction to themself, alternate versions of themself, or beings who could be considered them.

autoredrom: a term for someone who experiences red (flushed and/or pale) attraction to themself, alternate versions of themself, or beings who could be considered them.

autoblackrom: a term for someone who experiences black (pitch and/or ashen) attraction to themself, alternate versions of themself, or beings who could be considered them.

autospec symbol from here!

@radiomogai @liom-archive @obscurian @dragonpride17 @orientation-archive @libnius

[divinescannibalism]

ANGELICALBXY +100 FOLLOWERS EVENT !

[pt: angelixalbxy +100 followers event !/end pt]

notes,prompts, rules and other thingys under cut! (long post)

OMG! i can't believe i reached the 100 followers so fastly! and the number increases little by little! thank y'all so much for the support! really, it fills my heart everytime i see how much people like my stuff! and one more time, i thank y'all a lot for helping me to accomplish this! <3

the event consists of 7 prompts! ya can skip days or do it slowly! the event will end at the end of the month ! (y'all can also don't follow prompts exactly by letter, be creative !)

prompts ! :

day one : something related to the divine OR something related to the sky!

day two : an autospec label OR an objectum label

day three : something that reminds u of me OR a free day!

day four : something related to plushies OR something related to snow !

day five : something related to questioning label OR something related to chocolates

day six : something related to magical girls/boys OR something related to magic in general

day seven : something related to gore OR something related to agenderness

i would love to see anything that y'all coin! please tag me in yar posts, and y'all can also tag what ya coin as #angelicalbxy100 (not obligatory), i will try to reblog all the posts that ya make! also, pls don't be on my dni to participate !

have fun! and also , could i have a promo to boost my event? @cocajimmycola @cheriverie @chronicallyqueercoining2 @phantasverie @thehauntedcemetery @lawbakery @themogaidragon @acetrappolaswife anyone who wishes to reblog!

[genderstarbucks]

[1S TH3R3 AN AUT0SP3C T3RM 04 WH3N Y0U AR3 ATTRACT3D T0 TH3 1D3A 0F Y0URS3LF AFT3R Y0U TRANS1T10N? THANK Y0U 1N ADVANC3.]

(is there an autospec term for when you are attracted to the idea of yourself after you transition? thank you in advance.)

[S0RRY 1 F0RG0T T0 ADD F0R TH3 AUT0SP3C T3RM S3ARCH, 1F TH3RE 1SN'T A T3RM F0R TH1S, C0ULD Y0U C01N 0N3 PL3AS3? 1 UND3RSTAND 1F Y0U CAN'T.]

(sorry i forgot to add for the autospec term search, if there isn't a term for this, could you coin one please? i understand if you can't.)

Autotransitional!!

Autotransitional - a term for when you're attracted to the idea of yourself after transitioning

Also ty for adding a translation to your tq, they're really hard for me to read sometimes lmao