Thursday February 1, 2007
They aren’t animated or anything, but there was a discussion at MDC about an alternative to the puzzle ribbon, since that has a specific political meaning (pro-cure autism) and not everybody sees autistic people as being broken or poisoned. I tend to lean towards acceptance and making appropriate accomodations and therapy is aimed towards helping him cope with the world, not a pursuit to make him appear NT. (I am still working on letting go of being affected by the looks and comments we get sometimes, but that is a process. Some days I am great, some days I struggle with it, but that is about me being an imperfect human, not about what *should* be.)
I had already changed the symbol on the top of my blog from a puzzle piece to the infinity symbol, which goes along with the autie pride side of the autism culture, and I just modified a bit more so it was clearly an infinity symbol (and not a sideways “8″) when it was reduced to the smaller size. If somebody wants a different size and don’t know how to do that, or a variation of it, let me know and I can make it for you.
The puzzle represents ‘cure’? Where did you hear this? I never knew that, I thought it just was Autism Awareness or something along those lines.
You know, I’ve seen that puzzle ribbon all over the place on MDC and never noticed it had pieces missing. Interesting. I can definitely see why people would object to it.