Black, autistic and out of prison, Matthew Rushin becomes an advocate
. And in an unseen moment, she sent one of his poems to a prison warden and wrote on it: “You have an innocent young man in your prison. I’m going to bring him home.”
Body-camera footage obtained by The Washington Post shows one of the first officers at the scene telling others, “He’s f---ing squirrelly, trying to run over here and fake crying. And then he’s talking about, ‘Oh, I just want to kill myself.’ ” If you look at a person's facial expressions and body language, can you tell if they are autistic? Psychologist Erin Findley, who is also autistic, explains.
“If nothing changes as a result of this particular case, that would be heartbreaking but not a reason to give up,” Findley said of Rushin’s case. “I think this is part of a bigger cultural shift toward understanding and being respectful of different people and challenging our assumptions about what we think about different people.”
“I take all 27 months as a lesson,” he says of his time in custody. “I wish all the changes to my life didn’t happen because of me getting locked up. But we’re here now, and doing well and that’s what I care about.”
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