Light it up blue facebook campaign - neurodiversity images

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Obviously I think Autism Awareness is a good thing. But not the way Autism Speaks presents it.

I made my own promotional image that incorporates the celebrate neurodiversity logo.



Everyone is free to use it for their own facebook, if they wish. Just right click the above image, and save it to your hard drive. Then upload it to your facebook photos and set it as your default image to make a statement in the face of the "Light It Up Blue" campaign.

Neurodiversity innately is not one ideological agenda against the other but respecting what is. However what is does indeed think for itself. In this way neurodiversity in it's true form cannot be polarized. I do like your graphic with the heart.

Orange is better. The opposite of blue. You don't want others to think you're one of the curebies because you light it up blue, do you?

Once polarization on essential human rights takes place to remedy adverse symptoms conflict is more prone. To be a curebe is to acknowledge human rights and anything otherwise seems to evade treatment human rights for the most part. These polarized politics stem from the emotional qualities of the label, identity and what might be considered as self-preservation but to support a cure also has similar qualities.

how the heck did they decide that blue = autism....

Maybe politics, maybe gender based and calming blue... Don't know.

Thanks for the graphic, I have pasted it to my FB profile. A nice bit of culture jamming subverting the Autism (doesn't) Speaks (for me) logo. I did not know about the movement to use orange as the alternative to blue, but will make use of orange in the future.

I also think that orange would be a better colour.

I did not realize the use of orange either. I guess we could always download the graphic, then use something like photoshop to change it to orange if we wanted to.

i like the heart cuz it shows aspies have emotion.

Aspergia used to ask us to wear orange wristbands/bracelets/strings/whatever so that we could identify each other in RL and make friends. Cuz you never know who is Aspie.

if things on my wrist didn't but me so much, that'd be kinda cool.

Actually, it'f be really fun to have everyone do that during Autism Awareness month. Maybe make some friends. (so we're not wondering if every random person we see with a orange bracelet is an Aspie ALL YEAR)

The pro-ana people already do that with red strings. It'll probably backfire and people will think you have some kind of eating disorder.

Where did the orange idea come from?

Can someone point me to some information?

thanks!! !

thanks for the pic have used it on facebook