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In 1962, a small group of parents in the UK who were frustrated at the lack of understanding and help available for them and their children started a group that would in time become The National Autistic Society and, as far as I can tell, the first autistic organisation in the world.

They’re the ones who started using the puzzle piece. It was designed by Gerald Gasson, a parent member of the Executive Committee.

The minutes of the Executive Meeting of 14 February 1963 read: ‘The Committee decided that the symbol of the Society should be the puzzle as this did not look like any other commercial or charitable one as far as they could discover’.

From Perspectives on a puzzle piece

However, it wasn’t just a puzzle piece. It was a puzzle piece with a weeping child inside of it.

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.

From a presentation by Helen Green Allison given in 1987

Tulson74 skrev:Det gäller att vi lär oss älska oss själva för att bli älskade.. vi behöver stå starka själva, vi vill sällan passa in helt i NT pusslet.

Kidzi skrev:Vad ska vi skaffa för symbol för NT?