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@curiousicae@tech.lgbt @mxchara@seattle.pink The puzzle piece is still being used. I tried to explain it on a facebook group today where they were painting stones for autism day with the puzzle piece on it. They got angry and kicked me out of the facebook group.

@anubis2814 well if that were the real reason, then that would be awesome 😋 Sadly it's not why organisations, ran by non-autistics, chose the logo. As far as I can find, is this the original logo. A crying child in a puzzle piece... Gives it a whole other meaning doesn't it. The puzzle piece is a logo given to us, the infinity symbol is a logo chosen by us.

@KeithWM@mastodon.social https://intheloopaboutneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/the-ableist-history-of-the-puzzle-piece-symbol-for-autism/

@Sagesse@norden.social that's a good visual as wel, thanks 🙂

@bardmoss@autistics.life but in a neurodiverse world it's not about "fitting in" it's about being accepted as you are. With your talents as well as your faults...

@KeithWM@mastodon.social well that is the official origin of the symbol. It helps to see the first iteration of the logo...

@bardmoss@autistics.life I understand that you can feel that way. But that's not a reason for using a puzzle as a symbol for the whole of the autism community. Because many do find it offensive, and it's origin does not come from a good place. And of course, I don't know you, so don't take this the wrong way, but ever considered that the puzzle you are trying to solve is the neurotypical worldview that is impressed on you? Maybe you are not a puzzle to be solved, but a work of art to be accepted as is?

@KeithWM@mastodon.social 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"...

@KeithWM@mastodon.social 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...