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I Just Realised In This Hallway I Barely Go To 'Cuz I Don't Have Any Classes There, THERE'S A GLASS DISPLAY CASE WITH AN AUTISM AWARENESS DISPLAY FILLED WITH PUZZLE PIECES GAAAH

Are the puzzle pieces laying loose or has the puzzle been solved (put together)?

Good or bad, puzzle pieces are a associated with Autism. If I see one one or more puzzle pieces I see it as a "flag" for Autism. It is a symbol widely recognized and associated with Autism. Our "brand".

I'm not too fond of an individual puzzle piece being used as our symbol, however. That says "unsolved" puzzle to me.

(And an individual puzzle piece in a specific color is associated with a specific organization which I would currently prefer not to be associated with.)

But a number of puzzle pieces, in a variety of colors or with out colors, assembled together says "puzzle solved" to me. I like that.

There is an Autism organization that, in the past, seemed to ignore Autistics and their opinions. Rather, they had a board of non-Autistics who made the decisions for the organization and who (though not Autistic) spoke for Autistics. Apparently, many high-functioning Autistics would rather speak for themselves than have some nonAutistic person claim to speak for them. That organization often used an emblem of a single puzzle piece.

After that organization alienated many Autistics it may have restructured to be more inclusive. To let Autistics join the decision-making process. Though I am not sure of the details on this.

For a time that organization's emblem was a single puzzle piece in one specific color. I do not know if they still do that.

And I would prefer to not get more specific about this on a publicly-available forum because I have not been following that organization's evolution carefully.

Perhaps I'm too autistic for any analytical thinking but I fail to comprehend how simply displaying a symbol is supposed to suddenly change negative stigma What's important to me is that the people or organizations displaying symbols are actually taking action to increase awareness & acceptance. Considering your other thread in this section Dandy, I do not believe your school is taking any meaningful action to try & increase autism acceptance & is most likely making thing worse.

I still don't see what jigsaws have to do with autism. I'd rather they used a picture of a square peg in a round hole, but even that isn't very helpful.

I don't need brands anyway. They might have been useful at one time to identify good and bad stuff, but ever since Gibson Guitars started selling rubbish along with the good stuff I've seen them as unreliable. So I just look into the upside and downside of the individual product, and don't really notice the silly logos they stick on them. They might be vaguely useful as a very rough guide but the idea of blindly trusting them seems totally wrong. No amount of shoving a coca cola logo in my face is going to make me want to drink the stuff. Even that isn't what it used to be when it had cocaine in it. Similarly, an autism logo doesn't make me feel any different about autism.