The Puzzle Piece Logo

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When I saw the rainbow puzzle twist I though it was for gay pride, they have the whole spectrum thing pretty much dominated. Instead of a puzzle wouldn't something like a Penrose triangle fit better?

Meh, the puzzle piece is okay. I don't think the Autism community needs a logo, though.

I like the design. To me, my brain is a bit of a puzzle. I like trying to figure it out

I have a sticker on my chair of a ribbon with the multicolored puzzle pattern on it.

What's stupid is that Autism Speaks has been shutting up autistics who disagree with them as long as they've been around. It's frustrating. They've got so much money, such a wide audience--they could really do some good. And they squander it on scare tactics, fear-and-pity "awareness", high-class celebrity fundraisers, and scientists who like picking apart our DNA instead of figuring out how to actually help us in the real world.

It's like, the second we're too old to be cute, the second we speak up for ourselves, the second we do anything besides being pitiful victims or inspirational success stories, Autism Speaks no longer wants to represent us. They only want the cute little poster kids, and even the poster kids aren't getting anything out of it.

I don't like it much. Although you could see it as representing how we see the world, I don't think it's usually viewed that way - rather, we're the puzzle (broken, missing pieces, needing to be figured out and fixed). Objects, not subjects.
I would like butterflies even less, though. I'm a lepidopterophobe.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

I liked the corners best- few, crucial, and still very much a part of the rest.

Different in a good way.

I understand why a lot of people don't like what the puzzle piece can potentially represent. I used to feel exactly the same way. But over time I've come to actually really like it - Firstly, I like puzzles. Really, really like them. Both the kind that are made of cardboard and have a picture on them, and also the type that involves life*. Solving puzzles keeps life interesting.

Secondly, instead of seeing the puzzle piece as indicating that I'm a puzzle myself, I see it as the final puzzle piece to be fit into a full understanding of myself. Something like "oh! that's why I act/thing like that!" Autism is the missing puzzle piece I've been looking for for so long.

Finally, the human brain in general is so incredibly poorly understood that it's exciting to see the developments in science trying to understand it. And just as we're so incredibly behind in understanding glial cells compared with neurons, we're also behind in understanding the autistic brain compared with NTs. As a former neuroscientist I'm biased, I'm sure, but the puzzle piece symbolises for me a quest for knowledge and understanding far more than it denotes hostile confusion.

Again, I get why some are against what the symbol can represent, and I've certainly heard many explanations of it that is at the least humorous and at the most offensive, but people are going to be ignorant or offensive anyway, regardless of what symbol is used.

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*Footnote: Like being hundreds of miles away from where you expected your cross-country buss to drop you off and having to figure out the most economically viable and time-efficient way to get back to where you want to be.

Is it copyrighted? Or is it only the Autism Speaks version that is copyrighted?

I'm neutral about the puzzle pieces - although I do hate their colors.