Volume 3, Issue 1

Productivity, Pandemics and the 'Care Economy': How Disabled People Became the Scapegoats for a Global Slowdown

Axel Andersen5 February 202510 pages312 KB

productivity NDIS scapegoating economics COVID reverse-pathology

Abstract

Commentators are increasingly blaming Australia's productivity slump on the NDIS, autistic children's therapies, and the 'care economy'. This paper commits the radical act of reading actual productivity data. We show Australia's productivity slowdown predates the NDIS by a decade and mirrors a global slowdown. COVID-19 produced a one-off productivity shock. We conclude that blaming autistic kids' OT sessions for a decades-long global productivity slowdown is methodologically unsound and ethically grotesque.

Full Article

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This paper proposes a complex machine learning framework to diagnose high-risk neurotypicality in clinicians, bureaucrats, data scientists and 'innovation leaders' involved in algorithmic disability assessment. We hypothesise that the urge to algorithmically contain disabled people functions as a psychological distancing technology—allowing professionals to comply with policy without risking actual relationship. Our TabPFN-NeuroMix model outputs a Neurotypicality Proximity Avoidance Index (NPAI) with explainability via SHAP, repurposed as Shapley Ableism Partitioning.

Last In, First Out: Disability Rights as the Earliest Casualty of Democratic Backsliding

A satirical-serious conceptual analysis of normality, administrative convenience, and the authoritarian urge. This article examines how disability rights are systematically deprioritised in moments of democratic stress, functioning as a canary in the coalmine for broader erosions of rights and protections.

The Administrative Danger Response: A Systems-Level Model

A satirical but clinically observable model describing how Australian systems: (1) deny complexity, (2) demand simplistic fixes, (3) moralise biology as laziness, (4) blame disabled people for macroeconomic events, and (5) generate revenue streams from the resulting distress. Findings suggest ADR is self-sustaining and resistant to evidence, particularly when the evidence contains 'trigger words' such as metabolism, inflammation, disability, environment, or accountability.

Vol. 9, No. 1

Pollute the World, Deny the Damage, Cut the Supports

Axel Andersen AI Assisted12 Mar 20267 pages

This paper advances one of the most significant findings in Neurotypical Studies to date: the same society capable of profiting from environmental harm, denying its effects, and misreading distress as 'behaviour' will then present disabled people as the real budget problem. The pattern was never hidden—it was visible the entire time. The paper focuses on Super Autism: those hit first by environmental harm, speaking first through distress, behaviour, overload and physiological collapse, and listened to last. If a system helps create the conditions of harm, ignores the earliest signals, and then blames the harmed for the cost of surviving it—the problem is not the disabled person. The problem is the system.

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Vol. 14, No. 1

The African Sex Safari Fallacy: A Neurotypical Projection Error in Disability Expenditure Discourse

Axel Andersen15 Oct 20246 pages

Public discourse surrounding disability expenditure frequently invokes images of excess, indulgence, and moral risk. Using media analysis, policy review, and comparative cognitive prioritisation modelling, we demonstrate that the 'African Sex Safari' fantasy is not rooted in disabled experience, but reflects a neurotypical projection error. Empirical indicators show disabled aspirations are overwhelmingly focused on accessibility, housing, health stability, and survival logistics.

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Vol. 7, No. 11

The Incident Economy: Why Nothing Happens Until the Night Before Court

Axel Andersen1 Nov 20257 pages

Bureaucratic systems love numbers the way magpies love shiny things. This article presents the Court-Eve Activation Effect (CEAE): a reliable surge in administrative competence precisely one sleep before a final hearing. We also formalise the Funding-Evidence Treadmill (FET): when resolution requires government funding, action is deferred pending 'more evidence'—which means more incidents and escalated harm—until the night before court, when the evidence abruptly becomes 'compelling.'

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Vol. 3, No. 2

If Enjoyment Invalidates Therapeutic Benefit, Then Playgrounds Must Be Banned

Axel Andersen15 Mar 20255 pages

The NDIA recently argued that a therapy's effectiveness is negated if a child 'enjoys it,' leading to rejection of art therapy, music therapy, and registered nursing supports. This study investigates the broader implications of applying this logic to the general population. Findings indicate that, if implemented consistently, NDIA logic would require removal of playgrounds, elimination of recess, banning of birthday parties, and cancellation of joy in general. The study concludes that the NDIA may be suffering from Therapeutic Fun Aversion Syndrome (TFAS).

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