If you could create your own symbol for autism

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What would it look like? Would you have one symbol for the whole spectrum or one for aspergers and another for classic autism?

I would go with whole-spectrum and I like the idea of superimposed square and circle to represent the idea of a square peg trying to fit in a round hole as that seems to be quite a good metaphor for living autistic in a NT world much of the time. What do you think? Is that too negative?

I'd rather us be the circle. I like circles.

If I'd make one, it would be a whole bunch of different shapes put together, because autistic people are all so on unique and different from one another

I don't think it's too negative actually, friended sort of amusing and charming.


I also have a few more questions.

1. But this symbol if you had to make one just for autistics and one for nts and one for both would you change or make a new symbol in anyway.

What I mean is that if I was making one specifically for autistics I will put some kind of thing that only autistics would understand that kind of makes fun of nts or Just an inside joke in general if you know what I mean.

If I was making one just for nts I would try to get down to their level and tried explaining in a way they would understand if I was able to.

2. Here's another question along the same lines if you had to make a definitive picture of what autism is what would it look like or maybe just disabilities in general?What about the concept of Nerodiversey?

another great idea.

A question mark.

Hmm.. I guess it would be a rainbow being refracted out of a prism, to represent the entire spectrum and all of the colors we come in.

I had a shirt with a picture of a rainbow colored brain and a caption that said "Celebrate Neurodiversity". I really liked the pic of the brain.

Like this: (link)

I like diversity symbols that have multicolored figures holding hands.
Separate but joined. It's like with the two other forums I'm on that are mostly NT's.
I don't favor the people in this forum over them. I feel that we all actually have a lot more in common with each other than being separate entities. Have felt a lot of equality with people online regardless of neurology, gender, age etc. Is all one big family to me.

I like this too. Im trying to show how were are so similar but at the same time so different.

To the OP question, I have no idea what symbol I would like...

I like that one!

Thought of one...a cute pokemon.

There'd be the side-picture of a curious little girl/boy, touching a mirror and where s/he touches it, his/her black and white world changes into a colourful, wonderful beam of life. There'd bridges across the planets and everything would be smiling at you. Just from a single touch.
Ah, well, I know this is not actually a symbol but I thought it was pretty cool.

The difference between Aspies and other people with HFA involves language development, so I'd think it'd be hard to make a picture that shows a language difference.

I've wondered if the picture could be a dot (representing a person) with a circle of other dots around it. It shows the person in the center living in the same world as everyone else, but there's a bit of distance, more between them and the other dots than there is between the dots in the circle.

I'm not sure I like the symbol of the puzzle piece a lot of people use. It makes it seem like an autistic person is an object or thing that people view as odd or different.

I think it needs to be one that can be done in black and white, so it can become an Unicode character or get it as a tattoo. Or at least a cheap tattoo.

Some how it has to show order or be indicative of wanting to align objects.