I appreciate that you’re trying to build knowledge about autism and accepting neurodivergence. However, the puzzle piece symbol is actually a negative choice, because the organization that started that actively tries to force autistic individuals into neurotypical molds through behavior/cognitive therapies. Awareness is also generally used for diseases or other issues that seek “cures”. I think it would be much better if you could remove the puzzle piece symbol and use “Autism Acceptance” instead, because we don’t need to be cured and trying to force ourselves to fit into a neurotypical normal means masking, which statistically lowers our life span significantly.
also, yes, I am an autistic person.
i agree. although to be fair, it is called “world autism awareness day” and “world autism acceptance month” for some reason. so i think stoic was just using the already chosen word