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The picture of today was found on a website of an agency that finds talent for business... their pitch is that autistic people are geniuses and this agency will help you find your own autistic employee.
It is an interesting read:
Celebrating Neurodiversity
Now, the picture is the typical: Half...
Maybe I am reading this wrong... is there any research that backs up this kind of representation for girls with autism?
One is a spectrum of color, the other is a rainbow, that is actually a spectrum of color... the confusion is bound to happens...
So if you put in the puzzle pieces that will fill up the space making the shape of the ribbon not clear anymore... how is this suppose to work???
So just to clarify, I was on a bike ride, not a walk, but I did give up on one hill, and walked the bike up, so....
First say hi to my bicycle, it's an old sturdy one, I got it ~16-17 years ago with a child seat attached so I could use it for taking the kid to kindergarten, it's not fast or...
The universe has no preferences.
It does not choose good, evil, happiness, or sadness.
And perhaps this is precisely what destabilizes us:
the idea that evil can happen without a reason.
Without a message. Without a plan.
Yet, as human beings, we seek meaning in everything.
We need stories to...
This graphic accompanies an essay that have the same title of this post.
This is what I find fascinating about this graphic:
Imagine you are a graphic designer and someone hires you to do the graphic work for their website, and you think "sweet, I got a job, I have to do my best here so this...
This is why it is important to check your designs... you can end up with something that is way too close resembling something else...
I found this interesting essay about how autism diagnosis does not come alone but it usually will come with other conditions. In this framework they will look at the symptoms and then diagnose all the conditions that match the symptoms. So if you have autism but also some symptoms that do not...
Just imagine this thing, but all the outside circles just touch the edge of the center circle, instead of overlaping with the center circle... AND... all the outside circles just touch the edges of each other, also not overlapping between them... that would have being so satisfying and quiet...
We do not need a doctor, what we really need is a mechanic...
As a side note, I am finding a lot of this faceless, corporate sterile silhouettes... what is up with that?
This graphic was created with the idea to present in a simple and clean way the difference on the diagnosis criteria between the 2 versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...
First of all, just the idea of creating a graphic design between the 2 is by itself... a...
This picture illustrate an article by the Economist with the same title as this post.
So we have the typical silhouette with the puzzle brain, but this time the brain is missing a piece that the character if holding on its hand... So... lest play a game...
What is the plan for the character to...
The brain of a boy with autism is made up of puzzle pieces while the brain of a girl with autism is made up of cats and hearts.
The image is suppose to represent how autistic people fixates over special interests.
They want $30 for this master piece...
So this graphic suppose to show the differences and/or relationship between autism and asperger.
All I get from this graphic is this 3 points:
That high functioning autism, asperger and pervasive development disorder are the same.
The spectrum is actually measure in IQ.
And the rainbow is...
Someone else made this satire starter pack... I guess I am not the only one that have notice this weird design language around autism... The only thing I would add to it is brains.
It's been a while since I postede pictures from any of my walks, it isn't because I haven't been on any, just been occupied with other things :)
So went out to this platform, you get there by following a path through the forest, as the weather was really nice (apart from being a bit windy)...
The concept of word cloud is simple: A program scan a document or a group of documents, like a website, and then generates a graphic showing the most common keywords, the size of the word is relative to the number of times the word appears... this is a helpful tool for research and marketing, so...
I kinda like the tetris more than the puzzle pieces... I actually counted the pieces and both heads have same pieces on same colors.
As another note this graphic came out related to aspergers, so I wonder if the puzzle piece is more of an autism thing and the tetris is more aspergers?