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New bushfire resources for first responders to help autistic people and those living with disability – ABC News
In emergency situations, autistic people can become disoriented because of loud noises and unfamiliar smells and sights. But new resources are being designed to help.
For autistic man Haydn Payne, the panic and terror of last summer’s bushfires is still raw.
He was in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, to support an autistic friend through the crisis when he realised something.
He wasn’t coping either.
“The fires start tearing through, sirens blazing, there’s smoke in the air and I’m in a complete state of sensory overload,” the 33-year-old said.
“I’d lived through bushfires before and they were quite bad but this was something else.”
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