the special olympics symbol

In the Special olympic symbol, you see 5 humanoid figures each with 6 arms standing in a circle.
The circle symbolizes that there are developmentaly disabled people all over the world. The humanoid figures say that just because someone's mind is slow to process informantion, he or she in NO LESS a human being and deserves to be treated as a human being. We are HUMAN folks!
The lower arms represent all the garbage the mentally challenged had ot put up with over the years: prejudice, discrimination, right to education taken away, institutions, abuse, ni constitutional rights, no human rights, no right to family, bullyism, name-calling, and shunning.
The middle arms mean reaching out to community, to fellow humans and reaching out to fellow mentally challenged. It means embracing.
The upper arms symbolize the how much we have overcome, and how far we have come since the institution days!