Aspies For Freedom

I really like the key idea. Seems really nifty too me and it also seems to fit too.

I really like the idea of the key placed vertically in the foreground of the infinity logo that SaintTheo posted above. The one with the yellowish top and the lavender bottom.

Actually, I'd love that logo (key over infinity) in good enough resolution to get it printed into about a 6"x10" (or maybe a bit larger) size. Perhaps with an Aspie/Autie slogan on it so that people know what they're looking at.  I'm personally not 'pro-cure' or 'anti-cure' right now, I think that humanity still doesn't know enough to made a decision either way (I certainly don't know enough, but suspect the best path is somewhere between the two), but education is the answer for me right now and I'd like to start educating people in general.

Oh, the reason I'd like the large size is so that people can see it on my race car from trackside.

And I forgot to add, The puzzle piece thing never did make sense to me. It must be an NT-centric thing.

Brilliant! I'll have to take photos when it's on the car.

I can't make sense of this thread because I don't see most of the images. Would anyone able please repost them?

Unlike corporate logos, the measure of a social movement symbol is not whether it looks good but whether others can make it look good, customize it, and make it fit specific needs. The acid test is whether it is still recognizable when drawn badly, hastily, and from memory alone.



Again unlike corporate logos, no board of directors ever approves a social movement symbol. Community members simply use it or not, as they please. Artists who employ the symbol rarely refer to the original, which may indeed be lost. In this context it seems a bit silly to release this work under the

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I think the puzzle piece logo (they say "help find the missing pieces") refers to having all the pieces of a puzzle. With all the pieces you can see the full picture - I think it refers to having a full understanding of autism.

I don't think that anyone recognises the pieces of the puzzle them, Breeze. They either think the ribbon as a reference to the war in Iraq {here in the U.S.}, or they think that the rainbow colours have to do with the gay rights movement.

What makes the situation worse is when the word AUTISM is placed inside or beneath the ribbon as if symbolism should need explaining. Or, perhaps on some lonesome knoll in Iraq there is some autistic soldier, I dunno.

  Ok, here's something that goes off on another tangent altogether:

    

  I was thinking of the graphic from Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, so I found a copy and did a little futzing around with it.

  I like the idea because it shows the spectrum without necessarily being the rainbow, and that it takes a unified whole (white light) and separates it into its components (colors), showing that *everything* is included in the whole.

  Comments?

  -BobB

"All in all, it's just another brick in the wall"