“Person with Autism”/ “on the spectrum” detaches the person from their Autistic brain and without our brain we aren’t the same person. Also it sounds like it’s an illness or disease by saying “has” or “with” and that’s not what Autism is and it makes it sound like it’s something that can be cured like an illness… when it can’t. Our brains ARE Autistic, we view the world and life with our Autistic brain… it’s a huge part of us and separating us from our Autistic brain is wrong. We need to ACCEPT AUTISM, and accept that we have Autistic brains. People need to ACCEPT Autistic people better. Being Autistic isn’t anything to be ashamed about and “Autistic” isn’t a dirty word. It’s time to view things differently from our point of view and it’s time to start using the two appropriate symbols for Autism also instead! It’s time to allow Autistic people to have a symbol they like that has a more positive history/ meaning to it than the one created in the 60’s by Neurotypical people without including us.

There’s the rainbow colour spectrum infinity symbol that is for Neurodiversity which Autism is a part of but it doesn’t solely represent Autism but that’s okay . We also have the gold infinity symbol which was created by Autistic people for Autism Acceptance…. And in the periodic table of elements gold is ‘Au’ which is the first two letters of Autism/ Autistic which is pretty cool. There sadly are some Autistic people out there that wrongly think the rainbow infinity symbol represents just Autism but that’s not true and it never has been. Sadly people are gatekeeping the rainbow infinity symbol from the whole Neurodiversity community. There’s lots of information online showing that it’s the symbol for Neurodiversity as well as autism but isn’t solely just representing autistic people. It represents the Neurodiversity movement which is a human rights campaign to create change and acceptance for Autistic people and also all other neurodiverse people