Juniper Dragon AAC

AAC symbol artist, part-time AAC user Multiply disabled adult, it/its pronouns

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Hello, you can call me Dragon (it/its pronouns), I'm making this blog to share some of the AAC symbols I've created in case anyone else would find them useful.

I'm an adult and part-time AAC user; I'm relatively new to using AAC but I've had increasing difficulties speaking in recent times and want to be able to communicate consistently, so I am trying to use my AAC every day.

I'm still finding my art style and am mostly making symbols for myself, but I thought the ones I make could potentially also be helpful for other AAC users, and I'm happy to take requests to alter my symbols for other people's AAC use (for example: recolouring, adding accessories or features). This blog will likely exclusively be sharing the symbols I make, and I will always include image descriptions of each symbol.

I don't like genAI or NFTs and I want them far away from anything I make.

My header is a photograph of juniper berries on a branch and my avatar is an illustration I made of a purple dragon with short light purple fur running down its back, dark purple horns and leathery padding on the top of its muzzle, and yellow eyes; behind it is a dark blue cloudy background dotted with tiny yellow stars.

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Golem: a brown humanoid figure with a faceless head, it has two small dark eyes and on its chest is the Hebrew word אמת "emet" written in block letters.

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Content warning for nonsexual depiction of pubic hair. Below are generic symbols for precocious, delayed, and incomplete puberty.

Precocious puberty: a small featureless person with a green arrow pointing from them up to an adult person lifting one arm above their head, the adult has brown axillary and pubic hair. Above them both is a clock with a blue arrow above it pointing to the left to convey earliness.

Delayed puberty: a small featureless person with a green arrow pointing from them up to an adult person lifting one arm above their head, the adult has brown axillary and pubic hair. Above them both is a clock with an orange arrow above it pointing to the right to convey lateness.

Incomplete puberty: a small featureless person with a green arrow pointing from them up to an adult person lifting one arm above their head, the adult has brown axillary and pubic hair. There is a red slash through the arrow to convey that the transition was incomplete.

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Content warning for nonsexual depiction of pubic hair. Below are symbols for androgenic, estrogenic, and mixed puberty. I'm working on further symbols for precocious, delayed, and incomplete puberty.

Androgenic puberty: a small featureless person with a green arrow pointing from them up to an adult person lifting one arm above their head. The adult has brown facial, axillary, and pubic hair; and thick black chest and limb hair, with a trail of hair leading down from their chest to their pubic hair.

Estrogenic puberty: small featureless person with a green arrow pointing from them up to an adult person lifting one arm above their head. The adult has brown axillary and pubic hair, a small amount of black hair on their forearms, featureless breasts, and wide hips.

Mixed puberty: small featureless person with a green arrow pointing from them up to an adult person lifting one arm above their head. The adult has brown facial, axillary, and pubic hair; and thick black chest and limb hair, with a trail of hair leading down from their chest to their pubic hair. They have breasts with black terminal hairs growing on them and slightly wide hips.

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Symptoms: a blue arrow splitting three ways points from a red plus sign towards a green triangle, a purple pentagon, and a yellow circle.

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Content warning for injury. Below are two variants of a symbol for "sublux"/"subluxation".

Sublux (variant 1): two bones at an odd angle to one another with a red arrow pointing from where the bone on the top was to where it is now.

Sublux (variant 2): a pair of bones making a ball-and-socket joint, the ball joint is slightly out of place and a red arrow points from where the ball joint was to where it is now.

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Hypermobile skin / hyperelastic skin / hyperextensible skin: a hand pulling on a segment of stretchy skin.

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Compression glove: a blue glove with three yellow arrows on each side of it pointing inwards.

Compression sock: a knee-length blue sock with three yellow arrows on each side of it pointing inwards.

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Unsafe food: a plate with a fork and spoon crossed in front of it, at the top is a red triangle with a black exclamation point in the centre.

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Horseshoe crab: an olive-green horseshoe crab facing left.

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Some mental health symbols.

Persecutory delusion: a figure wearing a black mask with their shoulders hunched and eyebrows raised in distress. They are surrounded by hands pointing at them, the hands have a multicoloured gradient to indicate that they represent a delusion.

Contamination delusion: a purple cube with a miasma behind it and smudges clinging to its surface, both the miasma and the smudges are multicoloured.

Magical thinking: a head wearing a white mask, above it is a thought bubble containing a wand, stars, and swirls, all with pink outlines. The interior of the thought bubble is multicoloured.

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A few flavours of hamantaschen for Purim :) (smile emoticon).

Poppyseed paste hamantasch, the filling is a lumpy dark brown paste.

Apricot hamantasch, the filling is orange.

Strawberry hamantasch, the filling is red.

Date hamantasch, the filling is brown.

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Safe food: a plate with a fork and spoon crossed in front of it, at the top is a green shield with a white plus sign in the centre.

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A few more symbols for some my safe foods.

Salsa: a blue bowl containing a red salsa with orange and green chunks in it.

Avocado: two avocados, one whole one and one cut in half.

Edamame: an edamame pod with two soy beans sitting in front of it.

Apricot: a whole apricot.

Blueberries: three blueberries.

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Agree: two heads wearing white masks, they share a speech bubble with a green check mark inside.

Argue: two heads wearing white masks, they have separate speech bubbles each with two red exclamation points inside, and they are glaring at each other.

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Some symbols for a few of my safe foods.

White rice: a blue bowl containing white rice.

Brown rice: a blue bowl containing brown rice.

Black rice: a blue bowl containing black rice, which is dark purple.

Tortilla: a flour tortilla.

Sunflower seed butter: a light brown jar, the lid and label are both orange and the label has an illustration of a sunflower on it.