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03 Aug 2010, 1:37 pm

Sometimes a plasma globe (fluctuating electricity/too much electricity/whatever) is used as a symbol for the many epilepsies; sometimes a battery-operated tea light (too little electricity to sustain a continuous light/whatever) is used as a symbol for ADHD Inattentive, so what are the symbols you've heard which are associated with Asperger's - autism?



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03 Aug 2010, 2:15 pm

Puzzle piece, though I don't really understand why...



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03 Aug 2010, 2:39 pm

I certainly don't know for sure, but my theory is that every case of autism is different; therefore, trying to figure out what causes some problems and others not, is sort of like putting the pieces of a puzzle together. Just my opinion though!



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03 Aug 2010, 3:02 pm

pgd wrote:
what are the symbols you've heard which are associated with Asperger's - autism?


I notice that a lot of the avatars that people use here are a face, but very few are looking at the observer and some are masks or have their eyes hidden. There is a guy in my town who has become quite famous (although he has never appeared in public) by selling portraits that have holes where the eyes were cut out of the canvas. A lot of books by people with AS have a similar "disconnected" face on the front cover - one has eyes tight shut.



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03 Aug 2010, 3:20 pm

Rainbow mobius strip.

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03 Aug 2010, 3:45 pm

I've seen the puzzle as a band to be the most common symbol/logo for autism.
I don't think there are any specific for AS.

See: http://www.google.com/images?q=autism+symbol



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03 Aug 2010, 3:47 pm

The color orange.



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03 Aug 2010, 4:28 pm

A figure 8 sideways? Infinity?

A puzzle where each piece is a different color, in the form of a loop of ribbon.



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03 Aug 2010, 5:35 pm

All of those are correct for autism... For Asperger's specifically, I think we need something like the Starship Enterprise.


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04 Aug 2010, 4:10 am

hutchscott wrote:
A figure 8 sideways? Infinity?


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04 Aug 2010, 7:31 am

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05 Aug 2010, 12:04 am

Must say I dislike the puzzle symbol... Do they mean we're a mystery, a puzzle to be solved? Kinda weird if you ask me...



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05 Aug 2010, 1:07 am

jmnixon95 wrote:
Puzzle piece, though I don't really understand why...


i thought the puzzle piece was for Autism Speaks. how about an alien?

:alien:


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05 Aug 2010, 4:42 am

jmnixon95 wrote:
Puzzle piece, though I don't really understand why...


That's the Autism Speaks logo, it represents the piece of your money they need to spend on their salaries :roll:

Anyways, this is what I think of:
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05 Aug 2010, 5:24 am

hutchscott wrote:
A figure 8 sideways? Infinity?


That's called a lemniscate. But how does that represent autism?

I'd think maybe, a symbol with a small object orbiting a larger mass, representing our general outsiderness.

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I bet most of you know where I stole this symbol from :-)


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05 Aug 2010, 7:49 am

Moog wrote:
I'd think maybe, a symbol with a small object orbiting a larger mass, representing our general outsiderness.


I feel a strong affinity with your suggestion. I was very moved when I heard a performance of 1 Corinthians 13 by a Greek singer called Petros Tabouris, in which he rendered verse 3 as "if I do not have love, I am a nothing" (αν δεν εχω αγαπη, ειμαι ενα τιποτα) instead of the usual "if I do not have love, I am nothing".

The difference between being "a nothing" (like your insignificant particle) and part of the great "nothing" is so profound, and so isolating.