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Autism may be risk factor for sexual abuse, but Grace Tame considers being autistic empowering

Grace Tame is best known as a childhood sexual abuse survivor and advocate from Tasmania who was named Australian of the Year in 2021. She is also autistic. 

While she has been open and forthright about her autistic identity in recent years, she does have a complicated relationship with being labelled.

"Today we're seeing a lot of labels used as weapons, as absolute ways of dividing people and diminishing people," she said. 

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