A Japanese woman with a developmental disorder has devised a card to help others with disabilities better communicate their rather uncommon symptoms in an attempt to reach out to the rest of the public.
For example, some people might be "hypersensitive to loud sounds" or "have strong preferences" for certain things to an unusual degree. These would be expressed on a card dreamed up by Natsumi Miyazaki, a 27-year-old graphic designer in Nara Prefecture with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
After being diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum after graduating from college, Miyazaki came up with the idea of designing the Card of My Symptoms, a card the same size as a business card that would be used as a simple way to convey her symptoms. She began distributing the cards across the country in July.