NDIS articles are turning autistic people into the new dole bludgers

The media likes to remind us that autistic people are the largest group of NDIS participants. Autistic people are at the center of attempts to remove people from disability programming, whether in Western Australia. ink programor still tentative Developing Children.

Combine this with the lack of critical understanding of the dynamic nature of autism by the vast majority of those who report on the NDIS, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was overrun by Sheldon Cooper types who take their NDIS gold cards straight to the ATM and go on a $100,000 lap therapy trip.