Seven,
I really like your key symbol. It makes a lot of sense, and having always been a fan of symbolism, I like that! But we already have a positive symbol for autism: the rainbow infinity sign you see in the AFF logo.
I wonder if the two could be combined? Maybe a rainbow-colored key with an infinity sign where you put the heart?
I also dislike the puzzle symbol, Curebies call autism a mystery but it isn't that much of a mystery for some aspies and auties, even if they can't explain the mystery by words.
And Erkolos, the puzzle piece also indicates that we are something to be made to "fit in", exactly the thing you don't want if your sig reflects your thoughts ("adjust society to autism not mind to society").
When speaking positively about the puzzle piece I think the puzzle piece illustrates that we can fit in somewhere without having to get our minds manipulated. I think the key also illustrates this.
I think the key illustrates it much better, though, because a) it's our own symbol so we don't have to "rewrite" the meaning of it and b) it doesn't imply that autistics are some great and unsolvable mystery or some such.
This is the best I can do:
more proof that autie males are better with graphics while autie females are better with figures.
i have to wonder what that implies about our brains functioning.
You might want to start a poll here on that, I think you'll find the results will surprise you...... I know <b>I'm</b> much better at art than at math (if that's what you meant by "figures"?)
Oh, OK. Sorry.
You STILL might want to find some way to test that, though. I prefer to draw figures, but I would say I'm about equal as far as which one I'm better at goes..... Maybe even better at archetecture, although it's been so long since I've drawn more than a floorplan that I'm not sure.
I think there were two reasons the rainbow color was chosen:
1. It's already something people equate with pride (albeit gay pride) and
2. It represents the Spectrum, by being a spectrum of its own.
I like your idea, but I'm not sure how we could pull off the random colors, and I don't think we could find any one single color that represents AS/autism as well.
I actually rather like the drum idea. I can picture two normal-looking white and red drums, like you see in marching band, and one that's, say- blue and green and purple, all fading into one another, sandwiched inbetween the two other drums.
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I don't think this would be the logo for autism for five-hundred years.
We'd need our own, but I like the idea of a prism being used to represent the spectrum. The infinity symbol seems a bit superfluous to that. Of course, I don't discourage anyone from using the infinity sign- it works well enough on it's own, and definitely serves the purpose Xiong mentions.
I know!
The A-spies logo!
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I actually like the infinity symbol.