Autistic Haus is an innovative charity creating accessible, supported homes specifically for autistic adults, on evidence-based design principles.

Independently supplementing national support framework and providing a world-first housing model designed to optimise support delivery and outcomes for autistic adults.

Our board is majority autistic, comprising those with complex presentations and co-occurring conditions, as well as parents and carers. Our founder thought that support needs would be met once appropriate NDIS plans were approved but discovered that not for love or money is there up to date, innovative and reliable support for many autistic people, and yet more are locked out completely.

The Autistic Haus model turns these gaps into opportunities for community resilience, supplementing NDIS and DSP and saving costs for all concerned through scaled independent basic supports. For more information see our website resources autistic-haus.org.au .

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About The Founder

Absence leads by example, out loud.

Their story starts in a system with no answers, and ends with them building the one that should have existed all along. Absence was medicated for depression before they were even a teenager, alongside undiagnosed autism. It was the 90s. The traits were obvious. Specialists were told. Still, nothing was offered.

By 16, with no support ever reaching them, they had left school.

One thing cut through it all: time spent with their Nan, a boardinghouse mother at their school. She showed Absence what shared living could look like when it was done properly: the right resources, real oversight, and genuine warmth.

That memory became a seed.

Left to find their own way, Absence left home at 16 and found real friendship for the first time among other insecurely housed young people. It was survival before it was safety, and the years that followed nearly broke them.

In their early twenties, a thread led Absence into a room with renowned autism specialist Dr Tony Attwood.

Everything changed. He made sure they finally received the support they should have had over a decade earlier. Absence didn't waste it.

What followed was more than ten years of deliberate, relentless progress, built around one conviction: