2023/12/07: OMG, thank you so much for the feature ST!!! This is such an amazing surprise <333 Special thanks to @-Squiggle for proposing this project to be featured! And thank you all so much for the support and inspiring comments. I consider this one of the most meaningful projects I've made. ❤️ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Planting a Garden of Love: Celebrating Disability Pride - ❤️ All of us, including those with disabilities of various types, can grow from our hearts a garden of love, hope and joy. In this project, you can build such a garden with colors from the Disability Pride flag, along with the symbols for autism (rainbow infinity) and neurodivergence (rainbow butterfly). ❤️ FULL SCREEN RECOMMENDED ❤️ Instructions: -- Plant flowers by clicking anywhere on the lower half of the screen. -- Move your mouse to the upper half of the screen to bring out the selection menu. -- Click the icons to select flower type and color. -- Press 1 and 0 to toggle the mouse trail on/off. -- Space key to switch between day and night. -- Click the (i) button under the sun to see what each color on the flag represents. (You can also read below for a more detailed explanation.) -- Click the info page to return to the garden. ❤️ All art and coding by me. ❤️ Music: Uchiage Hanabi Music Box Cover ❤️ Here is what the colors on the Disability Pride Flag represent: -- Red represents physical disabilities. -- Gold is for neurodiversity. -- White represents invisible disabilities and disabilities that haven't yet been diagnosed. -- Blue stands for emotional and psychiatric disabilities, including mental illness, anxiety, and depression. -- Green is for sensory disabilities, including deafness, blindness, lack of smell, lack of taste, audio processing disorder, and all other sensory disabilities. -- The faded black background represents the anger and mourning over the eugenics and the neglect that disabled people have to fight against. ❤️ Not sure what the Disability Pride Flag and Disability Pride Month are about? See the articles below for more info: https://www.womansday.com/life/a43964487/disability-pride-flag/ https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/07/22/observing-disability-pride-month-july ❤️ Visit the Disability Pride Month studio for more! https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/33478173
