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Aspergers Autism Awareness Puzzle Ribbon Charm Bracelet

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Autism is not only about the person with Autism - it affects parents, siblings, and many others. The home changes to accomodate the diagnosed person. It involves Speech Pathologists, Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, and Teachers. It requires a team effort. So wear a trinket. Show your support for not only the person diagnosed, but for the family he or she lives in. For the school they attend. For the team of professionals that service them. Without research and support, people with Autism would not have the services and support they now have.

If you are truly proud of your autism, be proud of those around you who have worked with you, taught you, cared for you. These are the people who have helped you be what you are. Be proud of them too. And support continued research of Austism Spectrum Disorders. They are proud of you.

As a person with Aspergers, and a mother with two sons (ages 24 and 15) who have Aspergers, I can tell you that I don't know how I made it through the years sanely, and my boys were, and still are a puzzlement to me. (Albeit a delightful one) I believe I may have been the luckiest one on earth to be their mom, because I am as "quirky" as they are, yet I know to this day that most people consider me an "odd duck." I would proudly wear a puzzle bracelet, and announce to the world that I am a puzzle and hey! come and spend some time figuring me out...it could be fun and worth your time and effort! I'm proud of the paradox that is me!

This beautiful bracelet is a wonderful way of instilling pride among the autistic community.

The bracelet is silver plated and replete with charms. The biggest charm of all is the Autism Engima Puzzle piece, the au courant symbol of autism. Each interlocking piece in different colors is rather Gestalt-like in that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The enigma of autism is greater than the sum of its parts!

The other symbols of the key and the heart makes me think of the 1980 Pete Townshend classic, "Let My Love Open the Door (to your heart)." Definitely a symbol of pride!

This item promotes the idea that people with autism are puzzles that need to be put together. We are NOT. We are human beings whose minds just happen to work differently than those of the general population. I am autistic and proud of it and I DO NOT need to be fixed. I do not appreciate an item being sold that promotes the idea that there is something about me that is broken.

I bought this bracelet and I wear it EVERYDAY!!! And everyday someone asks me about it. It gives me the opportunity to talk about it and the special students that I work with and how smart that that are and how much they teach me every day. And how much they have to offer the world. I also bought one for two other teachers and one for parents of children with autism. It meant so much to them also. I wear it with great pride. This bracelet is beautiful and to me it means a lot. I encourage anyone who works with or has a child with autism to purchase one and wear it with pride.

I purchased 3 of these bracelets. I love the design but all three broke very shortly after I purchased them. The charms fell off. Looks good but poorly made.

I have an autistic son. I do not feel he needs to "be fixed", which seems to be the general feeling posted by autistics here, but to me he is a puzzle that I need to figure out. I would not have him any other way. I seek to understand him to greater appreciate his very special mind. No, he does not need fixing, but I need to understand how his puzzle pieces fit together to be able to see his "big picture".

I noticed that the design of this bracelet includes a ribbon motif, like the kinds of coloured ribbons that people wear on certain days in remembrance of people who are victims of tragedies, such a breast cancer, AIDS, suicide or road accident fatalities. To regard autistic people in the same way, as being the victims of a tragic misfortune, can be seen as a dreadful personal insult to us, because autism/Aspergers is a fundamental part of who were are, we don't have autism, we are autistic. Save your pity for someone who needs it, mate!

And the bracelet also uses the autism puzzle motif that many autistic people find objectionable. One of the better known autism activist web sites has a logo on it that says "I am not a puzzle I am a person". It should be obvious to any thinking person that the idea of autism being a puzzle is a neurotypical-centric point of view of autism and autistic people. When a neurotypical person expresses the opinion that autistics are a puzzle, they are only flaunting their own lack of knowledge, not empathy or understanding.

I find it very strange that this product is being advertised as an "autism pride" bracelet, just a few days before autistic pride day (june 18th) and at the same time is promoting the view of autistics as puzzles to be solved - would a bracelet advertising the "puzzle of homosexuality" be suitable for gay pride?