Autism Awareness Lanyard

*Final sale item - I'd like to note that this will be the final Autism Awareness item EVOLVE will sell that displays puzzle pieces, which is usually a symbol of autism awareness. I'm constantly learning, and recently learned the autism community would prefer to use and see autism awareness symbolized with a rainbow-colored infinity symbol to represent a spectrum, diversity, and difference.

Did you know? The puzzle piece was designed in the 1960s by Gerald Gasson, a board member of the Autistic Children Association, and became adopted as the symbol of autism. He said people with autism were "full of unknowns like puzzle pieces". But the symbol later became criticized because of the perceived implication that people with autism were "missing" something or "incomplete" and needed to be "solved".

In February 2018, the puzzle piece was replaced with a rainbow-colored infinity symbol to represent a spectrum, diversity, and difference.