Autism Tattoos are WAY WORSE than you ever Imagined
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Do you have any tattoos? Would you ever get anything to represent autism? Maybe one day I will… An ironic puzzle piece on my forehead, perhaps? 😅
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My mom has a tattoo of a phoenix and I want to get one 😀
i feel like the opossum in a clowns costume i have is enough autism rep for now
Please don't get the temporary tattoo even ironically. If you buy that, that money is going towards an organization that hurts us and you know that!
I have quite a few tattoos. Try not to overthink it if you want a tattoo, sometimes too much symbolism can spoil a tattoo. Flowers or birds are timeless and people typically don't decide that they don't like flowers later in life (just an example!)
I want to try it out one day ... just a small one.
The Autism Speaks tattoo is temporary so you can wash it off once they've cured your autism
****wheeeeeeeezes in autistic****
Are they gonna wash it off with bleach? 😂
Does it wash off with bleach? 🤔
Bahahahaha!!!!! ❤❤❤
😂
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"I do not have an autism speaks tattoo on my forehead"
Source: trust me bro
must be hiding under the cgi!!!
GELP I FORGOT SHE HAD BANGS FOR A GOOD 10 MINUTES
As an autistic with a special interest in puzzles, it annoys me to no end that autism speaks tarnished the puzzle piece. I don’t feel comfortable wearing my puzzle piece earrings anymore because of them. Also it annoys me that the puzzle pieces in the tattoos don’t build to a larger picture because that’s not how puzzle pieces work! They aren’t all just random colors smushed together! Puzzles are fun, autism speaks isn’t. SMH.
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This could be solved by designing a new puzzle piece logo for the community that's visually distinct from the Autism Speaks one.
Do you think it’s because these people aren’t familiar with puzzles?
@@zetizahara I agree if there’s a new puzzle symbol that is distinct from that one American group,then I find that be great.
Oooh, maybe a puzzle broken down into separate pieces that when assembled would show an infinity?
Maybe puzzle piece earrings that have a rainbow infinity on them?
Pro Tip: Never tattoo someone else's diagnosis on your skin. Only your own.
If it's suppose to represent your kids, pick a symbol that respresents them and their special interests, not their disabilities.
I would be very uncomfortable if my parents did that to me. Instead, I would've suggested my Dad get snakes, sharks, or my family coat of arms instead.
Exactly!! I was rating along in my head and I had to have separate ratings for whether the person with the tattoo was or wasn't autistic.
"Never tattoo someone (...)()... Only your own."
That has got to be funny if it turns out to be misdiagnosis!
@ninaexmachina Yeah, as much as I hate the puzzle piece, I'm not going to rain on an Autistic person trying to reclaim it.
An Allistic person doing it is just invasive, especially if they did not get consent of the person in question.
@@knrdvmmlbkkn True! If it's your own and there's a misdiagnosis, you can write it off as the journey to discover yourself.
Can't really do that with someone else's.
You have good taste.
To each their own but anything to do with the American Austim Speaks is a huge no no .
@@j.b.4340horrible bait. Try harder.
@@j.b.4340they are not helpful and neither is your comment since you wanna go there
While I don't like their approach to or perception of, Autism.
I do like the puzzle piece because my diagnoses, for 30 years, were incorrect... and no matter how hard I tried to change the things my mother hated about me, I couldn't fix them... and then I would be condemned for "not trying hard enough".... I wanted to die because of this.....
Then, when I heard Toni Attwood's description of Asperger's... I heard ALL of my symptoms, along with my inner experience, described by one guy, in ONE DISORDER!!!
I had found the missing piece of my puzzle!!!
Since I found that piece, I've been able to forgive myself for those "shortcomings" (as they were painted in my youth) that I was always told I "wasn't trying hard enough" (yet was killing myself, trying).
So, yeah.... their position is appalling....
But their symbol was a huge help, as it is literally what it looked like, in my head, when I figured it out for the first time.
I'm not convinced the non-American Autism Speaks are any better. Same parent company, same ethos, same problems.
@@s0cializedpsych0path
Many people with ASD also have ADHD, which also makes it hard to be super productive. They are both executive function disorders
I apprenticed at a tattoo shop, protips:
Don't tattoo a callous producing area, the ink will wear off with the callous.
If it tickles there, it's gonna hurt there.
If it's over a bone, it's gonna hurt there.
No significant other names, you will regret it.
No illicit substances, symbols, or affiliation tattoos, you will be judged, especially by police.
It's gonna be on you forever, just because tattoo removal exists, doesn't mean you can afford it, or remove all of it.
Tattoos do not Hurt enough to be called painful, no matter where, its like a massage. Over that anoying the police is always a positive. Who cares about prison, capitalism is already one
Then you so not appreciate the gravity of prison properly@@draalttom844
@@draalttom844 Everyone has a different pain threshold and pain tolerance. Just because this was your experience doesn't mean it was everyone's or even most people's. From what I've seen and heard, what OP said is in line with the majority of people.
Can confirm, over a bone is painful.
My first tattoo is a band around my forearm, and the part over the radius was the most painful of my 4 tattoos.
Even the one on the inside of my upper arm only hurt because I was essentially in an arm bar the whole time. The needles didn't hurt.
Adding onto the significant other thing, I honestly wouldnt do *any* tattoo pertaining to your significant other unless they passed away, not just their name.
I once met a man who got his wedding band tattooed onto his ring finger and was served divorce papers less than a year later.
You probably didn’t do this on purpose but I think it’s funny how you gave the infinity tattoo an 8, which is just a sideways infinity symbol!
Ha good catch! Didn't even notice
That’s why I was obsessed with the number 8 when I was little. In fact, the reason my parents got me tested for autism was because I’d have a meltdown whenever we couldn’t go through checkout line 8 or gas pump 8.
@@rowan404 Thats so cool!!!
@@rowan404 I'm sorry if you have 0 idea what I'm talking about, but you just reminded my of the Character Death The Kid from the anime series Soul Eater. Him favorite number was 8 and he had very severe OCD around symmetry/perfection(although it was largely played for jokes). Actually my fav character from the series since he is a cool multi-faceted character that learns to get along wit the rest of the cast throughout the series and is actually very caring towards his friends despite his raging OCD.
@@peggedyourdad9560 omg yes, I'm always happy to see Soul Eater references out in the wild. I just recently commented about Black Star under a different video myself c:
I would give the "don't judge what you don't understand" a 6. The design is disgusting, the use of the autism puzzle pieces and ribbons is questionable, but "don't judge what you don't understand" is such an important and ignored message that not even an ugly tattoo with bad design choices deserves less than an above average grade for saying it.
I think having the quote with something else, like an animal who is often misunderstood, and incorporating an infinity symbol would unironically slap tho
@@NoisyBones I agree. Please don't make the word "unironically" the next "literally though. Words that are meant to say you are not joking or exaggerating (in a context where people might otherwise think you were) eventually become confusing when people use them for mere emphasis.
don't judge what you don't understand! 😜
@@johnfsenpai But it does make sense in this context. A lot of people like things ironically, or appreciate campiness and cringe in a way that may be perceived as ironic. NoisyBones is using the word entirely correctly to clarify that that is _not_ what is going on here, they sincerely like this idea.
but tattoos shouldn’t be lumpy
"If you're looking beyond the Autism, you're probably looking beyond the person and are probably not even looking AT the person anymore."
-You
You put that beautifully!
"sexy autism awareness month" had me dying of laughter. Thats just too much 😂
Stupid sexy autism awareness month.
😂😂😂 laughing my ass off 😂😂😂😂
It's sad that Autism Speaks tainted the puzzle pieces. Trying to make sense of our own personnality is like doing a puzzle without knowing what the final picture is: it can be so frustrating until you find that one piece which make it make full sense: an autism diagnosis really feel like that.
For you maybe, never was confuses by my personality, I just too some time to know why hated me
@@draalttom844 Finding what the big picture is help with that, or why what works for others doesn't for yourself, liberating oneself from the self hate caused by failure.
@@hydraian they are the one failing me, I got that a long time ago when I gave 110% and was told I didnt try
I liked the one with the one black and white piece and the other one being in colour that seems to stab into the arm and having blood splatters on it 🤣
But yeah, I do like puzzle pieces and what they could represent if done well, and it's pretty sad that Autism Speaks hijacked it.
Then again, you can finish a jig saw puzzle. I mean, if you finish the picture of who you are, does that mean you won't learn or develop after that?
To me, finding puzzle pieces was only the beginning of the journey and I added a lot that wasn't in the original box so to speak. So now what? Am I a mutant jig saw with extra pieces that I picked up along the way, like programming languages I wasn't born with and songs that I wrote?
But sure, I would love a jig saw beast, riding a motorcycle, wearing a cowboy hat with playing cards in the band tattooed on my back, wearing a NASA T-shirt, and a guitar on his back with a laptop on the handles of the bike 🤣Why not?
@@stylis666I like your vision. I would personaly see it more like a zoom out when you have a big revelation, with what you just finished becoming a piece of a bigger one. It's a 1000 pc, then a 2000, then a 50000, etc.
I think maybe googling the term "autism tattoos" (assuming that's what you did) might have been a trap, because society at large only associates autism with the puzzle piece and AS logo.
I do really like the autism creature, though. It's cute. I kind of want it to hang out with Ghibli forest spirits.
There’s an idea for a tattoo-a black and grey single needle tattoo of an autism creature hanging out with a bunch of forest spirits
I neither like the puzzle piece nor the infinity symbol. Honestly, I couldn't even understand why people limit their options for a beautiful autism tattoo solely by society's ability to recognize it as an autism tattoo. What matters is that the one who has this tattoo can associate it with autism.
@@NoxAtlas i think a lot of people like getting 'awareness' types of tattoos for lots of things (illnesses, disorders, etc etc) especially in relation to their family members or friends, so that's probably why a lot of people think to get the instantly recognizable symbols. but yeah maybe someone who's autistic themself would get something more subtle, because like you said its probably more for them and their own association with it in relation to autism
@JetterM Couldn't have said it better. I get it that people want to raise awareness because a relative has been diagnosed with autism. But I'd do some research before I get a symbol under my skin that's highly controversial. I'm autistic myself, and I just cringe whenever I see the puzzle piece and people don't even know that it's related to an organization that demonizes us and funded an institution that brutally abused autistic people in horrific ways.
@NoxAtlas why do you dislike the infinity symbol??
When I was 19 before I realized I was Autistic I had a tattoo idea to represent my mental health struggles. I had this concept of like a women with her head in the clouds that kinda represents mental health struggles. I asked a tattoo artist I really liked to create a tattoo based on that idea. She ended up drawing this really cool piece of like a floating brain behind a mask of a women's face with like smoke coming out of the eyes and stuff. It's a really cool piece it's hard to describe though but it's now my favorite tattoo because to me it now represents my autistic brain trying to break free from my mask. The tattoo represents my autism really well and I think it's funny I got it before I even realized and I just love it a lot
That sounds spectacular! Really cool imagery and symbolism. Unique, too. 😊
Any autism speaks tattoo is a negative 1 out of 10 at best. Maybe negative infinity.
On a scale of 1 to 10, an autism speaks tattoo will probably be so bad that the scale would just break apart
Some infinites are larger than others. Except when it's in relation to an autism speaks tattoo. That's the largest negative infinite.
I heard about them years ago and my therapist at the time even warned me about them after she said I'd fit the diagnosis. Smart lady! No thanks
As an AuDHDer with several tattoos, if you want one I suggest you come up with the idea, set it aside, and come back to it in a couple of months to see if you still feel the same way about it. And do not wander around an unfamiliar city until you find a random tattoo shop with some dude hanging around outside and decide 'ok, you'll do'.
...Maybe don't ask me how I know this.
I draw it on the area a few times before I get it done. It means I know where I want it and if I actually want it on my body, and I can also pick the placement long before I get into the shop so I don't have to fuss around with the artist too much. It goes very smooth :)
@@spibow ROFL I wish I could do that but I'm so artistically untalented it would end up looking like an electrocuted weasel drew it.
I heard the suggestion that you get a design, tape it beside your bathroom mirror, and look at it at least once a day for 6 months. And if you still like it after that, go for it.
I found getting the design done with henna helped me figure out if i wanted it or not
I feel like this could apply to getting a haircut that's very different then what you would normally get.
Fyi the rainbow infinity symbol is for nurodivergency, the gold infinity is for autism and there is a rainbow butterfly shaped infinity for ADHD.
Bee shaped for adhd
While you're right, the rainbow infinity is most closely associated with autism and many people are unaware of the gold infinity which is likely why people assume the rainbow infinity is always autism. Also the ADHD butterfly can be any color (more frequently black, orange, or purple though)
@@draalttom844 I've only seen butterfly shaped, but going to look up the bee shape. Thanks for sharing
Source: trust me bro
@@fatdragonite you know Google is a thing right?
I live near the autism speaks HQ. Their stuff is literally everywhere. Animals completely painted in puzzle pieces. It’s on buildings and sidewalks and people have necklaces with the puzzle piece and yeah. It’s awful.
I’m sorry you have to witness that on a daily basis. I wouldn’t be able to tolerate it.
Sounds like a creepy cult
I have a tattoo of a quote but it's mirrored so I can read it in the mirror 🤔 I design all my tattoos keeping in mind that I am an evolving person! My only hard and fast rule has been "nothing depressing/self-loathing." Otherwise I have a mix of b&w, color, text, images, serious, impulsive, etc. Many are special interest-themed, LOL. Lots of astronomy and lyrics
The puzzle pieces at 6:00 is actually a "whole" puzzle with the piece on the left being a gap in the completed puzzle and the piece on the right being the final piece that fits into that spot.
I believe the symbolism actually includes the concept of them being full of life and energy and needing to mask that with the patchwork puzzle that they created to live in a neurotypical society.
I sort of have an autism tattoo - it was back when I was in a bad place staying with someone (an ex) who wasn't good for me. He wanted to go out and both get tattoos (not matching ones thank god) so I felt pressured to get one. I doodled something myself because I'm an artist but I didn't want anything insane. It's just a small UFO stencil with a gooey beam underneath it that sits on the inside of my forearm facing me at about a size that could fit under a 50c piece (Australian).
At the time I didn't really feel human, like I couldn't fit in anywhere, deeply struggling with my sense of self. I felt more like an alien - but... I realised that wasn't a bad thing. I wanted to give myself a reminder that aliens aren't "alien" everywhere, even they have a home and a place where they're "normal". So it was to help keep myself grounded with the thought that I will find my people one day 🤍And it looks like I have - the autism community (maybe a bit of ADHD too) and my new wonderful partner who actually treats me like a human being with respect and true care, kindness and love
Stay strong out there 🤍
I got one about 6 months ago that was kinda Autism related. My son was diagnosed at age 2 and i was diagnosed last fall at age 37.
I wanted something to signify my son's future journey, as well as my own personal experience as a "peer reviewed" autiatic.
I've always found fantasy lore interesting, and have long thought that the stories of faerie "changelings" were just poor attempts to understand autistic children.
So, i combined this thought train with my special interest of Magic: the Gathering and got some cool faerie artwork from one of my favorite cards on my forearm. The nerds i know recognize the card. The "normies" see a cool creepy faerie. Its not obvious about the Autism connection, but im happy to discuss it with anyone who asks for deeper meaning.
There's this book called 'The Moorchild' that basically got me through childhood. It's about a changeling and I'm basically convinced the writer was autistic because of how relatable it was. It's one of the few books from my childhood I absolutely refused to give away, and I 100% recommend it! Also I'm stealing your tattoo idea lol
That's an awesome idea!
I had a lovely conversation about fairies and changelings with my kids ( both asd & adhd) and the connections with autism .my 16 year old thought that it was really cool and said it made sense as the "changeling" would act differently because that's what autistic babies do too. We are all nerds in our home
@@haleyzwaal4183 Steal away!!!
I'm working on a sort-of fantasy horror sleeve, so it fit right in. :D
That's sweet. Which card?
hey so like... why is the "diet can help autism" crap always gluten and never like, excluding sensory-issue foods/flavors (and/or GI tract irritating foods) and figuring out safe foods that are ALSO healthy and nourishing?? which would be like, an actually helpful diet change that would likely lower the "symptoms of autism" bc the person isn't constantly at their frickin limit when it comes to trying to feed themselves
Edit: If you have a gluten sensitivity/intolerance and going gluten free helped you, I'm NOT TALKING TO YOU. OF COURSE Gluten free diet helped you, gluten and your body hate each other!! I'm talkin bout peppers, babey! I'm talking about taking onions OUT of a kid's diet instead of trying to cut them big or "too small to see" that doesn't fix the sensory issue of the taste of onions making a kid want to starve and die. I'm talking about tomatos, beef, celery and that one gross sugar substitute and the texture of french bread crust. Things that AREN'T allergies or just "i don't wike it" but actual BARRIERS to ever even wanting food if someone else makes it, which if you're a kid, means like, ALL FOOD except prepackaged stuff
100000000% agree.
The gluten free diet helped some of my irritability and sensory anxiety. That’s because I happen to have celiac disease as well as autism.
There’s no correlation between having autism and having celiac. But kids with autism and undiagnosed celiac will benefit greatly from a gluten free diet, so parents assume it’s the interaction of gluten and autism. That’s my theory.
There's literally no benefits to a gluten free diet if you're not gluten intolerant/sensitive.... why would it help with autism
Being gluten free sucks if you have food hangups because the gluten free food *isn't* the same as its gluten counterpart. I went gluten free for other health reasons, and it didn't seem to change my baseline functioning, but if I slip up and eat something I shouldn't, I get brain fog, anxiety, and mood swings (plus digestive upset).
I'm only speaking for my AuDHD experience, but I went gluten free (and other stuff) because of gut/allergy issues and my anxiety/overwhelm went waaaay down. The inflammation it can cause in the body really affects the brain, and makes it harder to function. On the flip side, being gluten free is super annoying because I have way fewer options.
The third one isn’t 2 puzzle pieces, it’s a puzzle piece cut out of their skin and the ‘color’ is the stuff under the skin
I must admit, at first I thought they were metal cookie cutters shaped liked 2 puzzle pieces 🤦♀️
It gave me the vibe of removing the mask one puzzle-piece at a time to discover the colours underneath.
@@ballistic_goat LMAO
I'm autistic and I love puzzles. It's a quiet hobby one can do on their own without socializing. Even when I puzzle with friends, I enjoy it because we're quietly focused on something together and there isn't pressure to preform the constant back and forth dialog which I find exhausting. I can also sort and use my pattern recognition which I love. I'm sad that Autism Speaks ruined the puzzle symbol. I originally thought they used it to represent us being being good at sorting and pattern recognition. I didn't think it represented something missing in us or being "puzzling"
i always end up thinking (or telling other people) "if im not autistic, im not me"
Looking beyond the autism reminds me of the times someone has been waving at me so i wave back but they were actually waving to someone behind me....
Omg, that's actually quite profound. Goosebumps.
to me my tattoos are autistic because they have to do with my special interests; I have a little bunny on my wrist. Also I want to get historical inspired tattoos, because its my main interest!!!!
AW THE AUTISM CREATURE IM OBSESSED
The 3rd one is an acronym, because the initials spell out a word (or said as a word, like SCUBA, LASER, PIN, et c.). An initialism is when you say the individual letters (like FBI, CIA, ATM, et c.).
Both acronyms and initialisms are types of abbreviations.
She called it a "backronym" because people "backfill" the words to make an existing word into an acronym.
@@SavageMinnow Before that she called it an initialism, which is what the comment above is correcting, not the backronym part.
It’s a type of poem, called an acrostic
@@missybuchanan9631autistic acrostic… bars!
bruh the fact that Autumn speaks is like still supported after that advert i literally cant!! (I know there’s a lot more shady things about them than the advert, but that ad in particular boils my blood) I took a special education class and we literally watched that and the whole class was mortified and the teacher was like yeah isn’t this terrible?! This is what we dont want
i hate that ad too!
I draw the autism creature on drink cups at work to mark them as mine instead of writing my name. I love the little fella so much
He’s just so….
🥺
See, I love puzzles. I have a 1500 piece out on my table right now that I'm hoping to start today. But the "autism" puzzle graphics always weird me out because, as you said, no puzzle looks like that! I mean, the blue pieces go with the blue pieces and the green pieces go with the green pieces, THAT'S HOW IT WORKS! You know what a puzzle with every piece a different color is called? A bad puzzle, that's what! Nobody wants to put that puzzle together. It's not fun and it doesn't make sense. Ugh. And ew.
I've always thought the colorful puzzle pieces were a way of infantilizing autism. If it was supposed to represent a spectrum then why couldn't it be a rainbow puzzle?
The gluten-free mention was sort of a jumpscare to me. When I was a kid, my mom spontaneously decided that I could no longer eat gluten because it messed with my brain chemistry and made me more prone to meltdowns or something like that. Instead, she got me gluten-free alternatives to crackers, bread, etc. I was a little disappointed that I couldn’t eat as many treats, particularly at school events, but I went along with it because my mom is a doctor, she went on the diet as well and it minimized her arthritis, and I hate having meltdowns.
Many of the people I told about this assumed I had celiac disease, so I would have to clarify, which was difficult since not even I entirely understood, so I eventually just stopped bringing it up. It did lead to a funny moment, though, where a classmate wildly guessed that the X in “X-Ray” stood for “gluten” because I had recently told her about my diet. Anyway, I didn’t expect to see a gluten-free diet pertaining to autism mentioned ever again, so this was quite a surprise.
I have a plan to get a fairy wing tattoo to represent my autism, because as a kid before I was diagnosed I thought I was a fairy since I didn't fit in with humans, and also because of the history of believing autistic and disabled children were fairy changelings
I call myself a fairy so often I’m getting a small fairy tattoo
I'm close to graduation and my parents are letting me get a tattoo on my shoulder that says "fuck you im autistic" around an infinity symbol. It just represents how I live with it and how I deal with others that don't get me
The edit was a grammar mistake
I love this so much. Middle English literature is one of my special interests. Especially in the older sense of fairy, this fits the feeling of being autistic in a non-autistic world very well. Except, we’re a bit less nefarious…. usually.
Miss Meg, you should get an anti social snail! ❤❤❤ I have four tattoos: A cherub on my back left shoulder, "let go" on my right wrist, "you are totally worth it" on my left wrist, and a claddagh on my left forearm. I want more of them.
I don't have any tattoos either. I prefer to put it on a t-shirt:) My next t-shirt is going to say "please be patient, system processing". I would say that an electron better describes me than a puzzle piece. You can know where I am but not the direction I'm going or at what speed. Or you can know my direction and speed but not my exact location. LOL also I like that electrons can be multiple places at once or so that's the hypothesis/ theory:)
That's how it feels like I'm having echolalia, my brain is buffering the words 😂
I have tattoos but you can't see them even if I'm just wearing a t and shorts, I've come very close a few times to getting more visible tattoos but I'm glad I didn't.
I have a real dualities of man thing going on where I like face, neck and hand tattoos but like not on me?
One of the things I've struggled with whilst coming to terms with being autistic and going through assessment process is not knowing where I fit, not feeling like I have a place within autism. I've always done well academically and more so pyschologically, analysing people I mean. But the adult world has been so incredibly hard. School was what it was, but post school has been unbearably challenging. So many people see me as an autistic person who barely needs support because of my learnt knowledge and behaviour, but I am not like that, I know autistic people who didn't consider they may till 30, 40s+, I could never have done that, Ive had question marks over my head by close people since my teens. I very much feel the pressure of "so, so much potential, yet feeling like I'm failing on an epic level" because I cant do "basic" things.
God, I relate to this so heavily. Hope you're doing okay 💛
The jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts should reclaim the puzzle piece for themselves.
There is no part of me that's "Beyond the Autism." Autism is is the foundation on which my personality, thinking, behavior, and everything else about who I am. If you see something good about me, that's the Autism as much as my meltdowns, sensory sensitivity, executive disfunction, and emotional disregulation. You can't even speculate as to what I would look like without Autism, because there'd be nothing of me left.
Not sure if someone pointed it out yet, but the "colorful puzzle piece" at 6:00 is supposed to be the "inside" of the puzzle/person while the "dirty" one is the piece that would cover the slot, the skin. It's a little tricky as the pieces don't quite line up (or it's just the perspective of the photo), but there is a deeper meaning in the design :)
The "backronym" or "initialism" is actually called an "acrostic poem", or at least that's what i learned it as in school :)
ooh, I think that third tattoo with the colourful and the black-and-white puzzle-piece-shapes was actually depicting one puzzle piece that is taken out of the person. so the puzzle piece was not in its place, leaving behind a puzzle-piece-shaped hole in the arm and behind it was the colour!
so maybe that person was actually autistic themself and meant to symbolize the autism piece being a part of them.
Anyhow, when I see it like not 2 pieces that do not fit well together, but instead one piece and the hole it perfectly fits in to complete the person, I like the tattoo much more
That's how I saw it too, though the bit on the right side was not the same size as the hole on the right side, which bothered me (and probably led to the confusion)
fyi, regarding the script on the first tattoo, usually tattoos will be placed in a way where they're easy to read/look at for other people, not the person who has it. Of course it is the clients decision in the end.
Entirely off topic, but I would like to thank you for all of your videos. As someone who received a very late diagnosis (in my 40s), your videos have been helping me make sense of a lot of things. I was raised in a very conservative Christian traditional household (not saying they are all bad, but it's a needed point of reference), all of my "problems", such as autism, anxiety, depression, they were considered character flaws and things that I needed to just "get over". They didn't even have names other than "weakness of character". Then there was the other side of the coin, where I would get a lot of comments from family such as "you are so smart, you know so much stuff, you could be doing so much more with your life". Having someone openly talking about things has been an amazing help, for which I would like to thank you.
I'm autistic and polyamorus and have a tattoo on my arm as a statement to that fact. Wish I could put images on here so I might share it
I know! It’s a shame - I’d love to see it!
I don't have any tattoos. I'm not against them, I've just never come across something that makes me think "I definitely want this on my body for forever".
I have a skeletal Punk Rocker playing guitar, with "Punk For Life" written underneath. It's basically a sketch I did at work, and I asked the tattooist to put it on my skin. So it shows my own artistic limitations, but it's mine and only mine. It's the only thing I ever knew for certain I wanted tattooed, so it's the only one I ever had done. I keep having ideas, but I lose interest after a few months. I've thought about getting my dog's paw print tattooed, I think I'd like to have something about her, because she's amazing.
i love the idea of a guy who has a puzzle piece tattoo but doesn't know anything about autism speaks and just really loves jigsaw puzzles
I’m not a guy but I do like jigsaw puzzles and had no idea of the existence of autism speaks (I’m not from the US) when I got my tattoo nine years ago; I just learned about it today through this video
If you have a puzzle piece tattoo, we ain't gonna be friends. Hell no. Idc if people like it. It is traumatic to enough of us that the rest of us should respect that and do it away with it. Ugh.
I freaking love puzzles (of all kinds, but definitely jigsaw puzzles)! Unfortunately I have to do research on every accessory I want that has a puzzle piece on it to make sure it's not bad autism messaging. There are so many cool designs that are ruined by people who are "trying to find the missing piece" in autistics.
I agree, here’s an idea:
A puzzle loop that is complete with all seven colours of the rainbow.
I don't have a autism tattoo, I'm just a guy with autism and over 600 hours of tattoo's
Sound like they all are then! Haha mine are kinda all autism related, cause its all thing I love. Even the face that so many people hate haha
I almost can't concentrate on the video, because I love the glitter in your hair so much!🤩
Tangential thought about autism representation. Autism Speaks and all its negative connotations aside, autistic people like the puzzle piece because they feel it reflects their identity in some way. It’s a personal thing. The infinity symbol, on the other hand, is about boundless unity. It’s a community thing. These aren’t dichotomous, they’re two sides of the same coin. Identity and community. They’re both important, but it’s totally understandable for different individual autistic people to gravitate more towards one perspective, particularly if they have traumatic experiences impacting their feelings about the other.
I was diagnosed with pdd-nos at 5 and when I was a kid I always thought the symbol for autism was a puzzle piece because autistic people are good at puzzles, but it wasn’t until I was older that I saw it along with slogans such as “until all the pieces fit” and started realizing how awful the symbol meaning actually is.
I'd love to watch a video by you thats a deep dive on 'autism creature' bc I see it everywhere lol
As a person with Autism, I can't stand when people use a puzzle piece instead of an infinity symbol. Autism is not something that makes people have something missing, or that the person's brain is "broken." Autism is a spectrum and many people with Autism are different and unique. It's a different brain path, NOT a disease.
The video of the quoll when you said smell, I appreciate that. I love marsupials especially carnivorous marsupials.
What if 'Hope' is actually the name of someone with autism? 🤔
I wish puzzle pieces were a less bastardized thing cus tattoos with puzzle pieces making and actual picture like ya know... puzzles do... and not the random colors that don't make anything, would be really interesting.
You know, it’s just not fair for Autism Speaks to get to claim all puzzle pieces. They can have their edge with two side holes and a top connector. Actually, I think that’s totally appropriate, what with their gate keeping kind of perspective and whatnot. So yeah, let them have that and all the negative connotations that come with it.
I want a puzzle piece tattoo with an asymmetrical inferior shape, the skin tear-out design with gears beneath the surface. The focus here isn’t the puzzle piece itself, but what’s beneath, what is an intrinsic part of me. I already have a piano keys tattoo that appear beneath torn away skin, so I feel like these pair well together in this theme of representing various things that are intrinsic aspects of what makes me, well, me.
While not directly related to autism, I have thought of getting the Jedi Code (plus their symbol) on one arm, and the same with the Sith Code on the other. Star Wars fan admittedly. But the idea being that life is between those two extreme which I find relatable when dealing with depression/anxiety and the autistic elements of myself.
I'm really enjoying your sense of humour in the editing of your videos.
I'd LOVE a tattoo but frustratingly I have MCAS so I'd only react to them. Really like the infinity symbol but I'm not sure why some of these have to be quite so massive 😆
One reason is of course personal preferance, but also there's a limit to how small you can make a tattoo and still have it look good in 5, 10, 20 years. As a tattoo ages, the lines will get wider and fade slowly over time. Some colors fade more easily than others. If you have a very small tattoo, and especially with script, blurring lines will make the tattoo unreadable, essentially turning it into a blob. This is why tattoo artists will sometimes tell you that your tattoo needs to be bigger than what you asked for.
4:25 I think there is only one puzzle piece here, and a matching hole. Underneath the hole, there is this mix of colors, the removed piece is kind of skin color with shading.
The tattoo at 6:00 is supposed to show the colourful interior under the puzzle piece removed from the skin, not two separate puzzle pieces. The colours are supposed to be showing through the hole.
Thank you for the eye trigger warning. Something about focusing on people’s eyes makes me wildly uncomfortable at times.
I really appreciate you saying that we’re helping to support the channel just by lurking because I recently discovered this channel and have been loving your videos. However, I'm not someone that generally comments a lot on videos, and especially on this channel, since although I can relate to many things you talk about as a neurodivergent person with ADHD and OCD, I am not autistic and don't want to talk over the people here who actually are and therefore have more insight into the topics you talk about. I just wanted to say that I appreciate you saying that I'm helping out just by lurking, because often I feel guilty for not interacting much with channels I like besides watching their videos, and I love your content and the way you talk about things and really have learned a lot more about autism from watching your videos.
I just wanted to pop down in the comment section to say thank you for making all your videos. The more serious ones have helped me become confident in my own self assesment and helped me make the push in my own formal diagnosis- which is all but done!
(Sorry for the long off topic comment just wanted to thank you!🎉)
All I’d like, is to be accepted.
Choose another goal, that never comes for us
@@draalttom844 oh I know, but I’d still like to be accepted for being me
@@HaakonOdinsson You’ll be accepted by people who are worth your effort. Anyone who doesn’t accept you isn’t worth the effort. Autism can be a blessing when it comes to finding true friendships. I feel bad for NTs because they make a lot of fake friends and never know it.
@@HaakonOdinsson accept yourself, its the best you can do people end up accepting even if they dont want to if you do
@@draalttom844 I hope I will again one day…been affected by the trauma of a narc relationship and it’s hard, but I will get there. Cheers 🙂
4:34 - There is one puzzle piece (not two) and that colorfull part on the left is like a hole in his arm where this puzzle piece came from. I think the meaning is that when you put that puzzle piece on it's place you can't see autism underneath.
So its not positive at all
@@draalttom844 I'm not saying it's positive. I just wanted to point out that there is just one puzzle piece. But still it's quite accurate that people can't see autism on the outside only in the inside - but there is no need to use puzzle piece. It could be something else like heart or sth.
@@FreyaFromAsgard thats cute but they sure as hell see autism, and we do too. We act real weird
Every time I see the puzzle piece to represent autism it reminds me of this random autism thing in my local mall(I literally have no idea what they did there) where they literally had puzzle pieces in the logo😀 they either know absolutely nothing about what they are “experts” on or that was on purpose. Both are terrible.
I have a single tattoo and I got it before I thought I could be autistic. It's a Celtic cross with the words "Faith, Hope, Love, Honor" in the halo. No plans for additional tattoos yet; it took me *years* to design my one and then get the nerve to actually get it.
Regarding the dietary changes to "cure autism", I run into questions about that (or curing ADHD) in gluten free groups. I'm gluten free for suspected endometriosis, but I have found that reintroducing gluten makes my ADHD symptoms worse, but going gluten free didn't make them better. 🤷🏼♀️
I have celiac disease and gluten makes my sensory sensitivities, irritability, and ADHD symptoms worse. So I can understand why people think it might help autism, but that’s probably only in the case of celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, or endometriosis (I don’t know much about the latter).
I gotta say, your editing is so fun
i love your piglett earrings so much!!! pooh bear is one of my lifelong spinterests and seeing piglett made me so happy for this video
also
thank you so much for the warning about the eyeball guy, a lot of people dont tend to warn for my hyper specific trigger (ommetaphobia) :(
it sucks because most of the time i'll be completely relaxed and enjoying the average video when suddenly BAM weird gross eye stuff even in the form of a meme??? and it sends me into a bad spiral. its really hard navigating without accidentally running into that stuff
I knew a guy who had a puzzle piece tattoo and I was a bit anxious around him because of it
He later told me it was because he'd had a cancer tumour removed from that area and wanted to represent how he'd 'lost a piece of himself, but won the battle overall'
I have a remembrance tattoo for my nan, but I'm thinking of more ideas
I have a question mark tattoo that symbolises curiousity and open mindedness. I did it myself before I identified that I'm autistic, but I think that it suitably fits with my autistic identity.
I absolutely adore seeing what fun earrings and cute outfits you wear in every video! The hair tinsel is super cute! If I had long hair I’d totally wear hair tinsel 😊
I just want to chime in about the diet thing bc it's something important to me that I've found actually genuinely does help me manage my dysregulation. I have a sensitivity to Salicylate. Which is basically what aspirin is made of but it's a compound thats found naturally in a lot of fruits and vegetables as well, and a lot of preservatives used in processed foods. When I eat a large amount of Salicylate (oranges, apples, grapes, or nitrate etc.) I struggle severely with managing my mental and emotional regulation. It triggers intense frequent meltdowns, insomnia, and enhances my sensory issues tenfold. Worst case, I get severe migraines. Avoiding certain foods for me has a direct impact on how difficult it is to function. Obviously not eating these foods doesn't change the way my brain works, but I have a significantly easier time regulating myself and functioning when I eat a certain way.
If anyone is curious to look more into it, there's a whole bunch of info out there. I grew up knowing the Feingold diet, but I know that there's a lot of conflicting information on the internet. It all comes down to just finding what works for you as an individual (:
And obviously everyone is different and what works for me won't work for most people but I just thought it's important to note that sometimes diet genuinely can help people manage a little better.
as a heavily tattooed autistic person almost all of these are horrific. too bad one of the TWO good ones (the watercolour infinity symbol) is gonna age horribly. that lips one is infected.
For myself... Until i learned their reasoning for puzzle piece and bad actions..... I liked the puzzle piece because I've always said " i feel like a puzzle piece pit in the wrong box.... Like the outside looks like it should fit in somewhere easily...but the edges are just off a little anywhere i try to "fit" 😅..... But definitely negative for anything associated with the AS asps 😅😢 ...
My girlfriend has a tattoo shaped like a puzzle piece. I asked her what it was for and she said she got it to hopefully match with her daughter and had no idea it was a symbol for autism speaks
I really love the editing on this video
I love your videos but can i make a request? Counld you consider boosting the volume level on your videos? I generally find them a bit quiet and tend to turn up the volume so I can hear your clearly but when an ad comes on or I click onto a different channels video the sudden jump in volume startles me.
"This would be a really awful puzzle." Watch The Accountant and you will understand.
13:51 "Now I'm just like ONE! GET THE LASERS OUT QUICK!!" 😂😂😂😂😂
SAVAGE ENERGY
so, about the autism creature
it's origin is a doodle of a character Hifumi Izanami from Hypnosis Microphone (a multimedia franchise about men in post world war 3 Japan fighting each other by holding rap battles with enhanced microphones instead of talking with each other and realising that they're being played by a fascistic government, at least initially, lately I think they finally started talking with each other), who's pretty autistic-coded (and so is rest of his rap band - Matenrou) which someone else redraw like month later but without the hair, making the creature more universal
"I don't know, I don't have many ideas"
I used to say that, since my brother had some cool tattoos that are with meaning, but then I said, you know what, I like this Yoji Shinkawa drawing of Solid Snake, if I'm having a tattoo it will be that. I spend years gathering the will/other ideas.
And now I have it!
I wear an infinity symbol necklace, the meaning from my grandma is that her love has no end for me, but you could also use this as a symbol of no end to the love for yourself ❤
My eldest daughter is on the spectrum, I'll be asking her if she'd like me to get an infinity tattoo, because there's no way I'm getting the puzzle piece
The foam floor bit is exactly what the puzzle piece motif made me think of, too!
I have the 28 : 06 : 42 : 12 thing from Donnie Darko on my arm, as it's one of my favourite films, and it also reminds me that everything is finite and to enjoy life as it ends at some point. I have incorporated the semicolon (;) as the last separator for the usual reason (don't want to put it here for those it may upset, but google can be your friend here)
love your piglet earrings
8:57 I've seen thicker ones used in Dojos and studios. They still feel like puzzle pieces to me.
I have always liked puzzles, still do as an adult...I like colours, and foam floor puzzles they make the ground softer and not cold..I guess that make me a child? 😅🤷♀️
i'm autistic and i've gone through various gluten free diet periods.
nothing to do with curing my autism, i've just been constipated a whole lot and i do carry celiac genes from my mother.
The infinity ♾️ symbol is good enough for me, even if I don't have any tattoos.
Tattoos are one of my special interests so this should be a great video!
I also hate puzzles, they are extremely visually overwhelming
I wish the puzzle piece didn't have such a negative connotation because I love puzzles and it would have made me happy for it to represent the community if it didn't have that connotation! Same for the colors, I hate bejng infantilized as well but I love bright colors haha
I'd like to relate my story of getting a tattoo (not that you would have the same experience, but just so you know there is a possibility). I'm also late-diagnosed autistic (a year ago when I was 48). My dad passed in 2005 and I was trying to think of a personal memorial for him (and one people wouldn't have to deal with after I passed). My dad was in the military and was proud of his service (and I am proud of him), so I decided to get a similar tattoo to one he got when he was in the Air Force (he had an eagle flying through a plane and I got an eagle holding a banner: "Love, Honor, Respect, RIP Dad" that was in the same place on my body as where his was).
I had not previously gotten a tattoo (although I had wanted to get one when I was in my last year of public school but was told I had to wait). So, I gave myself a few months to see if another/better idea would come along (as my wife did not want me to get a tattoo and I wanted to see if I could honor her desires while also finding a good memorial for my dad). Nothing else sounded right, so I got the tattoo after promising her it'd be the only one. The process was fine (I'm a little hyposensitive to pain... so it just felt like the tattoo artist was marking on my arm firmly with a pen to do the outline -- shading in the tattoo was a little more painful in the more sensitive part of my arm because he had to go over it several times).
What I didn't expect, was that I'm apparently addicted to tattoos (I never even thought that was a thing beforehand and I don't react the same to most things that are "addictive" -- though I did have slight caffeine withdrawals when I stopped drinking Dr. Pepper at the end of 2012). It took me over two years for the strong urge to get another tattoo finally decreased to an every-so-often intrusive thought. I'm glad I didn't get a tattoo before then as I'd be covered head-to-toe most likely. The desire to make this tattoo my only one so that it was extra special helped be fight off the urge (and even the recurring urges I get from time-to-time) along with the promise I made to my wife.