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18 Aug 2022, 1:30 pm

I have seen the rainbow used as a symbol for autism too. I saw a bumper sticker on someone's car that said "children with autism" and had a rainbow on it and each letter in "autism" written with different colors of the rainbow.



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18 Aug 2022, 1:40 pm

makes sense cos light is on a spectrum as well



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18 Aug 2022, 2:09 pm

The rainbow is also a religious symbol.


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18 Aug 2022, 3:20 pm

Thirty years ago Jesse Jackson strived to create "a rainbow coalition" between folks of different color.

So rainbows crop up all of the time to symbolize all kinds of things.



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18 Aug 2022, 3:23 pm

klanka wrote:
makes sense cos light is on a spectrum as well


what comes around is all around

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18 Aug 2022, 5:52 pm

Rainbows have for a long time been associated with joy or optimism. They tend to appear when it's raining and sunny at the same time, so it's kind like how some things can make you happy and sad at the same time. I saw something that in a For Better or For Worse comic when I was younger.

Oh yeah, and Kermit the Frog sang a song about them.



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18 Aug 2022, 8:49 pm


https://youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU



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22 Aug 2022, 6:48 pm

Reading Rainbow.



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22 Aug 2022, 6:52 pm

She comes in colors everywhere. She combs her hair. She's like a rainbow.



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22 Aug 2022, 7:22 pm

Sonic200 wrote:
I have seen the rainbow used as a symbol for autism too. I saw a bumper sticker on someone's car that said "children with autism" and had a rainbow on it and each letter in "autism" written with different colors of the rainbow.


The rainbow as a symbol has had many meanings - that's why the original LGBTQ pride flag originally had a PINK stripe.



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24 Aug 2022, 9:44 pm

And then there's the myth of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Pretty popular icon on St. Patrick's Day. Also a name for a popular brand of chocolates that I've often had at Christmas.



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25 Aug 2022, 5:57 am

LGBTTQQIAAP+ has pretty much comondiered the rainbow symbol.



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25 Aug 2022, 10:59 am

Matrix Glitch wrote:
LGBTTQQIAAP+ has pretty much comondiered the rainbow symbol.


The original pride flag has a pink stripe to distinguish it from an ordinary rainbow. I don't think it was ever meant to commandeer an actual rainbow.