the organization Washington Autism Alliance & Advocacy supported the campaign, but claimed that ASAN and press coverage of the campaign could obscure the degree of difficulty and the true nature of autism. He won the $100,000 Ruderman prize in 2014. Ne'eman has advised several Democratic presidential candidates on disability policy. In the 2016 election, he advised Hillary Clinton's campaign on autism and disability policy proposals. In the 2020 election, his advice was acknowledged and credited by both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the development of their disability plans. ASAN was initially neutral on Kevin and Avonte's Law, which would have provided money to fight wandering behavior in autistic children, until a provision was introduced into the bill that would have allowed for tracking devices to be installed on people with disabilities that could be used for purposed other than locating them if they were lost. ASAN then opposed the bill, which failed to pass. Later, a revised version of Kevin and Avonte's Law passed which did not include the language ASAN had objected to. Ne'eman supported the FDA's ban on electric shock devices at the Judge Rotenberg Center in 2020. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Ne'eman has advocated for the rights of people with disabilities to get access to necessary services, prescription drugs and lifesaving treatment when necessary. In an op-ed in The New York Times, he argued that ventilators and other scarce medical resources should not be denied on the basis of disability, provided that the care was not medically futile. Early in the pandemic, Ne'eman urged states to allow early refills on prescription drugs. He also articulated a series of recommendations to states to help ensure continuity of long-term care services for people with disabilities. In 2014, Ne'eman co-founded MySupport, a technology platform that enables people with disabilities to find and hire support workers. MySupport was acquired by RISE Services in April 2020. Views on autism Multiple media sources have claimed that Ari Ne'eman sees autism as a difference as opposed to a disability. In response to those claims, Ne'eman has stated that he actually believes that autism is both a neurological difference and a disability, not a disease that should be cured. He is against what he sees as the stigmatization of autism in the media and views autism self-advocacy as a civil rights issue. Proponents of a cure for autism, such as Cure Autism Now