Another Rant About The Autism Puzzle Piece

Ok, let's talk more about the autism puzzle piece because everyone has their dumb analysis, like “oh, it symbolizes that we need to fit together the piece of this illness so it's a big mystery like a puzzle.” I call bullcrap on that, if we're trying to say that autism deserves awareness, then why is the puzzle baby blue like a puzzle for children. Why not just put some baby blocks with alphabet letters while you're at it, we can say it looks like we're building a cure one “block” at a time even though it looks like we're saying, “Awww, it's so cute, little Timmy will never grow up because of his illness, it'll cause extra work for him to not end up living at his parents' basement at 30 like Xaxton!”

Thanks to Autism, my life is messed up but let's make it look cute. While we're at it, why not put some baby blocks around 9/11 footage when memorialize it, won't that make 9/11 look like it's too be taken seriously? It's ok if we say that the block means we're building a foundation to a safer future!

So now you realize the problem with assigning —arbitrary meanings to —symbols that otherwise can look like they mean something else.—  You don't want your kid to have Autism and you don't want to have Autism; Autism is a disorder; we don't want disorders and if we want neurodiversity, then you should use the neurodiversity symbol because it has a rainbow and who doesn't like rainbows?

Look, if we want to use the puzzle piece than we have to make it look serious and to make it look serious, we have to get rid of that wimpy little baby blue color. Make it white with a black outline. Not baby blue. That's like using a pink flower to symbolize feminism, everyone loves flowers cause they're delicate, I'm sure a lot of feminists would love to be called that, especially ones that have just broken the cycle of domestic abuse by a male partner.