The origin of the puzzle piece symbol for autism came from a UK organization in 1963 in the National Autistic Society. Gerald Gasson was its founder. He and other board members believed that autistic people suffered from a puzzling condition, so they took on a logo of a puzzle piece with a weeping child, displaying the thought that autism is a tragedy that children suffer from. Due to this visualization of autism, autistic people have been receiving unwanted treatments and therapies to cure a disease that they don’t have for decades.