Images/photos that capture the essence of autism?

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I am putting together an autism-related website, and I'm wondering what images/photos to use - without falling into clichés ...

Do you have or know of any images/photos that you think capture the essence of autism or symbolize autism particularly well?

If yes, please post them or describe them in this thread.

Thanks.

Although I can't give you any particular links, I was actually thinking exactly this myself as I have just started a photography degree and was playing with the idea of how ASD could be portrayed in a photograph. It might be a cliche but possibly could use the effect of having the subject stationary while a crowd around him is motion-blurred by a long shutter speed?

I'm thinking of using pictures without any people. I've seen some photos by Matthias Heiderich, a German, that depict architectural detail in vivid colours, but always without people. I immediately thought they speak to me as someone on the spectrum.

I think maybe a slide show of all the small details in the world. Not presented in an overwhelming way; just shown so that NTs could slow down and look at those details and see them a little bit the way we see them.

I like this idea. I was thinking something similar before I read this post. I did something like that for a photography project in school... though the theme wasn't autism. It just so happened that all of my photos in that project emphasized small details of things. The photos turned out great and I got an A on the project and still have them. I use them sometimes to describe how I see things.

These are about or remind me of autism:
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1. a nerd sitting and typing on his computer

5. taking over the world

6. building stuff really smart stuff.

7. Getting picked last in PE