Representations of autism in Australian print media

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"Autism is me": an investigation of how autistic individuals make sense of autism and stigma (2020, background): “In both British (Huws and Jones 2011) and Australian (Jones and Harwood 2009) media, autistic people are portrayed as either dangerous/ unstable, or unloved and mistreated.”
What should autism research focus upon? Community views and priorities from the United Kingdom (2014, background): “…be a good thing, for our parent participants at least, the common (mis)perceptions of autism (like the savant stereotype and the ‘in a sense we’re all autistic’ stereotype (Draaisma, 2009; see also Jones and Harwood, 2009)) undermined the everyday realities and complexities of living with autism.”