disability symbol

I made this because July is disability awareness month!

The image forms a simple sunflower shape. The sunflower is a symbol for hidden disabilities like autism. To incorporate autism, the sunflower is made out of infinity loops that weave into each other.

One of the infinity loops is gold. The chemical symbol for gold is Au, the first two letters for the word autism.

Another infinity loop has a zebra print. The zebra is a symbol for hypermobility. It comes from a medical phrase taught to doctors, the phrase is "think of horses, not zebras". It means to look for obvious conditions first instead of jumping to rare conclusions.
If u hear hoofbeats you would rather think of horses instead of zebras and that goes along with the fact hypermobility and EDS can be less common or overlooked. That's why the hypermobile community picked zebras.

The last infinity loop features a flag, specifically the Disability Pride Flag. Each color has a meaning

โ— Red: Physical disabilities
โ— Gold: Neurodiversity
โ— White: Undiagnosed and hidden disabilities
โ— Blue: Mental illness and psychiatric disabilities
โ— Green: Sensory disabilities
โ— Black: people who lost their lives due to neglect, ableism or violence