🧩
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| 🧩︎ | 🧩️ | |||||||
| Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩. | ||||||||
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Translingual
[edit]Description
[edit]Depiction of a round jigsaw puzzle piece.
Etymology
[edit]Created in 1963 by the National Autistic Society of England; popularized largely by Autism Speaks beginning 2005.
Symbol
[edit]🧩
- Represents a puzzle piece.
- Represents autism and autism awareness.
- (by extension) Represents neurodivergence.
- (by extension, often offensive) Represents mental illness.
Usage notes
[edit]- A number of autistic people find this symbol off-putting, or even offensive, arguing the symbol originates from an outside perspective. Compare the use of the infinity symbols (∞ or ♾) to represent neurodiversity from an inside perspective.
Further reading
[edit]- “🧩”, in Emojipedia, 2013–present.