Please Be Patient, I Have Autism

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About

Please Be Patient, I Have Autism is a photoshop meme typically featuring pictures of various people, characters and objects superimposed with a blue hat embroidered with the phrase "Please be patient / i have autism" on the front.

Origin

On October 21, 2015, Amazon^[8] began selling a hat with the phrase "Be patient / with me / I have / autism" printed on the front (shown below, left). On March 11th, 2017, Redditor zipohik posted a screen capture of the character Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell from the anime Gabriel DropOut with a similar hat superimposed on to her head to the /r/Animemes^[4] subreddit (shown below, right).

Spread

On March 17th, 2017, a 4chan user posted a photoshopped picture of the protagonist Sara Ryder from the 2017 game Mass Effect: Andromeda wearing the hat in a thread about the game on the /v/ (video games) board (shown below, left).^[1] On March 27th, the Augmentations Facebook^[5] page posted a similar photoshop of Ryder wearing the hat (shown below, right).

On April 10th, 2017, Redditor ethanslammberry posted a picture of Apu Apustaja wearing the hat captioned with a joke about misunderstanding a teacher to /r/dankmemes^[3] (shown below, left). The same day, Redditor kewvli submitted a photograph of a United Airlines plane with the hat photoshopped on top of the cockpit to /r/dankmemes^[2] (shown below, right).^[2] Within 24 hours, the posts garnered more than 9,400 (91% upvoted) and 2,600 points (98% upvoted) within 24 hours. On April 11th, two posts about the photoshop meme were submitted to /r/memeeconomy.^[6]^[7]