This isn't a great photoshop job but it illustrates the most frustrating thing about this design: you can easily make it line up far better by writing it normally
Hah, thanks. I figured it was good enough and it just wasn't worth taking more time for something like this. If I were to improve it more I'd stretch out the "half" a little more, shrink the "marathon" a little more, reduce the brightness and saturation on "marat" a touch, anr then go through softening the edges of each area that copy/pasted. Maybe try to get a little texture back into the red background shape too, not sure how I lost that
I did a bit of research because before I was speaking from my gut.
Turns out the puzzle piece was first used in 1963 by the National Autistic Society in the UK. They had a crying child inside a puzzle piece. They no longer use that logo.
"the puzzle piece is so effective because it tells us something about autism: our children are handicapped by a puzzling condition; this isolates them from normal human contact and therefore they do not 'fit in'. The suggestion of a weeping child is a reminder that autistic people do indeed suffer from their handicap." --- Helen Allison
The article The Problem with the Autism Puzzle Piece gives a good overview of current interpretations of the puzzle piece. Naturally, YMMV, all autistic folk are entitled to their own interpretation, etc.
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jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 39 pts · 1y
The half-autists need some love too!
Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
And that's how vtubers are made.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Is this what used to be called Asperger's?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
No, that's a vegetable that's very popular in Spring
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Are you sure you're not thinking of hamburders?
Skua@kbin.earth · 16 pts · 1y
This isn't a great photoshop job but it illustrates the most frustrating thing about this design: you can easily make it line up far better by writing it normally
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 1y
Idk this photo looks really believable, and only the HALF logo gives it away from me.
Skua@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 1y
Hah, thanks. I figured it was good enough and it just wasn't worth taking more time for something like this. If I were to improve it more I'd stretch out the "half" a little more, shrink the "marathon" a little more, reduce the brightness and saturation on "marat" a touch, anr then go through softening the edges of each area that copy/pasted. Maybe try to get a little texture back into the red background shape too, not sure how I lost that
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
Gotta love color schemes and malformed slogans that are weapons grade horrific to autists, being used on behalf of autists, to 'support' autists.
I hate whoever made this.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 1y
It's in line with the puzzle piece motif the creator also chose.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
Autists tend to view the puzzle piece logo as infantalizing, insulting.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 1y
Yep. The suggestion one is incomplete because one is autistic is just fucked up. Autists are complete humans.
(I was trying to agree with your post, but rereading I see I didn't make the connection explicit, which is ironic in a thread about autism.)
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Yikes! Is that really the meaning behind it? I naïvely would have assumed that it was referring to autistic people enjoying puzzles...
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
I did a bit of research because before I was speaking from my gut.
Turns out the puzzle piece was first used in 1963 by the National Autistic Society in the UK. They had a crying child inside a puzzle piece. They no longer use that logo.
The article The Problem with the Autism Puzzle Piece gives a good overview of current interpretations of the puzzle piece. Naturally, YMMV, all autistic folk are entitled to their own interpretation, etc.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Ah!
I was too angry upon seeing it to get that you could be, or were, making that point sardonically, or also in derision.
All good, lol =D
huppakee@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 1y
50% off a marathon of autism!? Yes please.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Use just half of your legs
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Autism marathon is when they let you to completely unmask for a long time.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
To be fair, the intended beneficiaries of the event probably only half hate it.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Run for 13.1 miles, walk (or get around some other way of your choosing I guess?) for 13.1 miles, makes perfect sense
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y