Touchability Graphic
Overview
The “Touch Meme” has been floating around the internet for a while, and it’s difficult - if not impossible - to find its origin. Over time the graphic has become degraded with JPEG artifacts.
However, it’s proven a useful tool within the autism community for conveying where we’re comfortable being touched and by who.
In order for people to have a nice clean starting point, I’ve recreated the graphic, with a few changes, and made it available in vector and rasterized formats. I’ve also created a version of the person pre-divided into sections so that you only need to use a “Paint Bucket” tool to fill in the parts with the colors appropriate for you.
Example
Here’s a quick side-by-side of the blank template, and as one person might choose to fill it out.
Blank template images
Download any of these to modify or fill in as you see fit. Note that the font used is “Marker Felt”
- JPEG Format ← If you’re not sure, download this one.
- SVG Format
- Affinity Designer Format
Pre-divided little person
So that you can easily fill it the appropriate sections with the Paint Bucket tool. The colors are intended to be replaced with the ones that are appropriate for you. Fill them in then, copy-paste the colored person into the larger template so that folks can see what the colors mean and what group of people they apply to.
