{"id":1476,"date":"2005-12-15T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2005\/12\/puzzle-piece-pc\/"},"modified":"2005-12-15T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T09:09:00","slug":"puzzle-piece-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/puzzle-piece-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Piece PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspiesforfreedom.com\/\">a website I respect<\/a> wrote in about my use of the puzzle piece on my website, the by-now familiar symbol many use for autism awareness. She asked me if I would consider using the infinity sign instead, adding that the puzzle piece carries a negative connotation for some, because it implies that our children are somehow not whole, that not all their pieces are in place, or that they are puzzles to us. I told her I would think about it, but I am hesitant to make this change, because frankly Nat <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is<\/span> a puzzle to me in many ways, although I agree with her that he is completely &#8220;whole,&#8221; just as he is.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/IMG_1283-718609.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/IMG_1283-715079.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader from a website I respect wrote in about my use of the puzzle piece on my website, the by-now familiar symbol many use for autism awareness. She asked me if I would consider using the infinity sign instead, adding that the puzzle piece carries a negative connotation for some, because it implies that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-nO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}