Autism symbols

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I like the multicoloured infinity symbol.

Either you forgot to have the infinity symbol go through the Moebius strip, or that symbol is not an impossible figure. I could easily recreate that with two rubber bands and a pen.

EDIT: Yep, I just did it and it looks exactly like it.

I assumed it was cloth or paper, which means it's not an impossible figure.

I took it as inflexible.

But yeah, I see what y'all mean.

It's a good start.

Make the moebius strip shiny and give it thickness in the final version, and that should give the impression that it's inflexible metal.

How about for a catch phrase "Active, Aware, Able, Autistic" placed in the four corners around the symbol?

I actually have a möbius strip out of wood hanging in my kitchen. Hanging from it is a 3d representation of a Klein bottle. So I've definitely seen inflexible möbius strips.

For a tattoo, I'd probably just get lettering done "AUTISM". Simple and unmistakable. The puzzle piece is universally recognized as Autism, but the rainbow and the ribbon are "borrowed" from other causes. The rainbow is universally a Gay rights symbol, and the ribbon is universally known as cancer awareness. I like the uniqueness of the puzzle piece as not easy to misconstrue, but if someone doesn't care for the puzzle piece, then certainly a tattoo of it would be a mistake.

I do have an autism tattoo on my left shoulder: It's a scene with two of my special interests, done up like a jigsaw puzzle with one piece out.

Charles

Very interesting idea. Thanks for sharing

Waddya think?

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I do like it.

Just be aware the person (I know her) who originated the mobius symbol really hated the puzzle symbol and used the mobius as an alternative to that, not something to be made into a new form of it. Also, she didn't borrow the rainbow from gay rights, but from the idea of "spectrum".

The main reason I personally don't like the puzzle symbol is because it makes it seem as if autism is just inherently puzzling, when it's no more puzzling than any other part of human nature. If autism can be represented by a puzzle symbol then every other kind of neurology ought to be as well. The only reason it is made into a puzzle symbol has to do with a long-standing tradition of us being described as inherently mysterious and hard to understand. When to ourselves, we're not. Nonautistic people seem just as mysterious to most autistic people, but because they're the norm, then they're not "inherently mysterious". It reads like an imbalance to me and I don't like it. Like nonautistic people think they don't understand us because of something innate to us, while we don't understand them because of something innate to us. Rather than being, we don't understand each other, because we're different from each other, and it goes both ways. So the puzzle thing has always occurred to me as a very one-way sort of understanding of us. (Then again I've studied the history of perception of autism more than almost anyone I know, and this idea of us as inherently mysterious goes all the way back to the psychoanalytic days, and explains many people's voyeurism towards us. There are very few other conditions seen as so mysterious, and that bothers me, because it's not like we understand those any better than we understand autism. The "mysterious" thing strikes me as a mirage, or a glamour (in the old magical sense of the word).)

But if you are going to use it, is there any chance you could tone down the primary colors a bit? I can't look at it without my eyes jumping away. I mean you can leave it alone if you want, I'm not trying to force you to change any of this, just giving my reactions.