Is Kemi Badenoch right about autistic people being advantaged?

Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has been criticised for endorsing ‘Conservatism in crisis’, a pamphlet put out by her campaign team that says autistic people like me get ‘economic advantages and protections’. Is this right?

The report says that:

‘Being diagnosed as neuro-diverse was once seen as helpful as it meant you could understand your own brain, and so help you to deal with the world. It was an individual focused change. But now it also offers economic advantages and protections. If you have a neurodiversity diagnosis (e.g. anxiety, autism), then that is usually seen as a disability.’

The document suggests that other ‘perks’ we’re entitled to include getting ‘better treatment or equipment at school – even transport to and from home’. Well, that’s news to me. The only time I got special treatment for my autism was for a few months when my mum dropped me off at school after I took the bus the wrong way.