a flag for those who have schizoaffective disorder, and to bring awareness to the struggles of having it. Made for myself and other schizoaffective folks. The magenta represents mania and mania type schizoaffective, the purple represented clouded judgement and thought, the blue represents depression and depressive type schizoaffective and the line in the middle is the intersection between both types/symptoms. I wasn't sure on what symbol to make for it, as the psychosis/schizospec symbol is often used for all schizo flags but I wanted to make one just to have the distinction. It represents the fractured nature of schizoaffective, and the complex emotions that come with it.
A term for when one's schizophrenia causes them to feel gender euphoria. This may be the symptoms, or the disorder itself and all that it means.
Symbolism:
The gray/silver represents schizophrenia.
The blue represents euphoric feelings.
The stars/sparkles symbolize the feelings of euphoria caused.
The symbol in the center represents schizophrenia.
Requested by: @transoccuine
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Early Onset Schizophrenia is a term used for schizophrenia that is seen/diagnosed in a child younger than 18 years old.
The purple is for schizophrenia, the orange is for childhood, and the white is for peace and new beginnings. The symbol is a clock with the hands replaced with the schizophrenia symbol, to symbolize both time and schizophrenia.
My dear friends of the community! For a community in which so many of us have been called a freak at some point in life, we've had a distinct lack of a coherent freak flag to fly!
Well, no more. There's a new flag in town, and she's a beauty!
The flag is preceded by a number of other flags. @psychotic-pisces collected a number of them, and proposed yet more, here, and there have been other versions and attempts through the years. There can be many flags, and no flag is more right than another, but we did feel that our community might be in need of a simple yet recognisable flag, that would still be rich with symbolism. This is our proposal!
I shall refrain from waxing poetic about the elements of the flag, but the references are as follows:
The symbol used in this flag was proposed by @actuallyschizophrenic here, and has seen fair use in the psychotic and schizo spec communities around these parts.
The colour stripes in the background match the current flag most commonly used for disability pride.
The background is purple, because 70% of all previous proposed flags were purple, suggesting a cultural connection to the colour in our community.
The symbol sits upon a waxing silver-lavender moon, referencing not only tales of lunacy, but also the dichotomous nature of our illnesses, negative/positive symptoms and more.
Finally, the moon acts as a prism on the stripes, creating a disjointed feeling, that we associate with psychosis and disorganization, among other things.
The flag doesn't have a name, I think anyone in the community can call it what feels right. Schizotypy flag, psychosis flag, lunacy flag - you name it! I call it the lunacy flag, but I have provenly bad taste, so call it what feels right!
This flag was a collaborative effort in a community discord for schizo spec folk and psychotic people. There's no way I could have arrived at this design on my lonesome, and I'm forever grateful to our loving, creative, smart and awesome communities!!
Special thanks to a very cool, kind and talented person who goes by 'Orange' in the server, who created the vector file of the finalized flag, which can be found (on Google drive via tumblr) here!
And a userbox template bc why not..
Let's go fly our freak flag! 🧠🔥🎉
(License CCO 1.0 Universal - this flag can be used anywhere, credit is nice but it's not a requirement!)
Other formats, color annotated version and image description under the cut
Long format:
Square:
Version of the flag with names of each colour for accessibility:
Image ID of flag: A rectangular flag. The background is purple, and in the middle there's a circle. The circle looks like the moon, with one side in darkness. The moon is dark grey and light silver-grey lavender. On the moon is a symbol commonly associated with psychosis and the schizo spectrum in white. A beam of stripes cross behind the moon from each corner. The stripes are light green, light blue, light grey, yellow and light red. They are similar to the stripes on the disability flag. The beam shifts position behind the moon, so it is parallel above and below the moon, but not directly connected. End ID.
