Scott's right. He and Jen are blessed to not have to negotiate the life of a disabled Australian, adult or child, parent or carer. He's blessed instead with the opportunity to make that system better for all involved.
Such as for
the parents of a child with some delays looking to engage with early intervention services, not knowing where to start.
Kids entering the education system and still facing the assumption that segregated settings are a beneficial option
Young adults trying to move into the workforce and having to fight for specialised support to find and keep open employment, or fumbled into sheltered workshops where $2.50 an hour is legal and seen as benevolent
Older adults struggling to survive on the criminally low JobSeeker payment despite having reduced capacity in the eyes of the government. But not being allowed onto the more suitable disability pension as the assessments needed to prove your disability are financially and or geographically inaccessible
But Scott has wasted his chances to make life easier for disabled people across the age span. His government has cut and cut and cut funding available to public schools who educate the majority of disabled kids, overseen the slashing of NDIS plans, defunding of advocacy services, and the continued exclusion of disabled people from leadership and board roles. Scott's been blessed with the results of various enquiries and royal commisions that recommend centring those with lived experience of whatever it is that needs fixing, from disability care and support, to aged care, to the experience of women employed in the same building as him.
They like to say Autistic people lack empathy, but aside from that not being true and us merely needing to figure out how the neurotypical world would like us to demonstrate it, at least we've learned from our supports, unlike Scott from his empathy consultants.