Dorgaldir🇧🇪With world autism day around the corner, it's a good time to post this.
KeithWM@dorgaldir I've never thought the puzzle piece was meant to suggest anyone had anyone missing. I saw it as a symbol of the desire that things fit neatly and precisely. But I'm not sure whether that would be an accurate representation of autism either.
I always quite like gold (Au) as a symbol, but I'm not autistic, at least not officially.
@KeithWM well that is the official origin of the symbol.
It helps to see the first iteration of the logo...
@dorgaldir Is there a source for that symbolism specifically?
@dorgaldir I find "The organization chose jigsaw pieces for their logo to represent the "puzzling" nature of autism and the inability to "fit in" due to social differences, and also because jigsaw pieces were recognizable and otherwise unused." on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_puzzle
@KeithWM and they chose this with 0 input from the autism community.
Also calling autist "puzzeling" is kind of insulting. Maybe try to understand us instead of just say "oh well yeah, they are a bit puzzeling"
Autism isn't as puzzeling if you actually connect with people with autism in a respectfull way and treat them as equals and not as a "puzzle to be solved"...
Also calling autist "puzzeling" is kind of insulting. Maybe try to understand us instead of just say "oh well yeah, they are a bit puzzeling"
Autism isn't as puzzeling if you actually connect with people with autism in a respectfull way and treat them as equals and not as a "puzzle to be solved"...
@dorgaldir Yeah, I didn't think it was meant that way. It is always going to be hard that so much of the history of such conditions (can I even use that word...) is from an era when there was in general, I think, less acceptance for diversity.
@dorgaldir But I don't think it's really helping anyone to shun the puzzle piece altogether, neither to claim that "Autistic people reject the puzzle piece symbol" without qualification, as the link you posted does.
@dorgaldir (Although some of the stuff it is associated with is pretty sickening.)
@KeithWM yeah it comes from another time. But that does not mean we have to keep clinging on to it if the signal from the autism community itself is that they wish to change it.
Those people ment well, but chose it from a place of ignorance...
Those people ment well, but chose it from a place of ignorance...
@dorgaldir Doesn't mean you cannot reclaim it. But maybe steer clear of the blue one 😆 .