People with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more likely to be targeted by the authorities because their behaviour can be wrongly interpreted as being aggressive, says a disability advocate and consultant.
A young woman fatally shot by police in Sydney after she was seen waving a kitchen knife on Tuesday morning had Asperger's Syndrome.
But the former head of Autism Victoria, Murray Dawson-Smith, said the 22-year-old may not have been intending to threaten violence.