it is not a day for other charities or organisations to promote themselves or stifle autistic people. According to Kabie Brook, the co-founder of Autism Rights Group Highland (AR GH), “the most important thing to note about the day is that it is an autistic community event: it originated from and is still led by autistic people ourselves”, i.e. AFF modelled the celebration on the gay pride movement.
This flag is free to use, see bottom of this page.Īutistic Pride Day was first celebrated in 2005 by Aspies for Freedom and it qui ckly became a global event which is celebrated widely online and offline. Gold is used by autistic advocates as the chemical symbol for gold is Au. The infinity symbol represents neurodiversity, the rainbow represents the pride movement.
