User:Vagabondsun/Aplatonic draft

Aplatonic is a term used to describe people who do not experience platonic attraction. 'Platonic' is defined in a number of ways by a number of people, but it is most commonly employed by aplatonic people to describe either:
 * A lack of desire to form friendships with specific people
 * Difficulty forming friendships in general as a result of neurodivergency or trauma

Etymology
The term uses the Latin prefix a- which means 'a lack of'. It was presumably coined by analogy to asexual and aromantic.

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History
The word aplatonic was first proposed by Mr. Shuttershy on the AVEN forum in April 2012. It was seemingly also independantly coined by tumblr user aroarolibrary.

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