“As an #autistic person, it was particularly difficult to understand what the officers wanted me to do. I personally experience audio sorting challenges as an autistic person. This makes it so that voices near & far are prioritized in the same way, making it difficult for me to figure out who is talking to me. Because of this, I tend to rely on reading lips. You can imagine how difficult it was for me to try to read lips when #ICE officers are completely #masked,” #AliyaRahman said.
#AliyaRahman, who is autistic & has auditory challenges when many people are talking at once, was brutally dragged from her car by #ICE agents in #Minneapolis. #DHS claimed in a statement that she an “agitator” who “ignored multiple commands by an officer to move her vehicle away from the scene.”
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/aliya-rahman-interview-ice-car-video/
“As an #autistic person, it was particularly difficult to understand what the officers wanted me to do. I personally experience audio sorting challenges as an autistic person. This makes it so that voices near & far are prioritized in the same way, making it difficult for me to figure out who is talking to me. Because of this, I tend to rely on reading lips. You can imagine how difficult it was for me to try to read lips when #ICE officers are completely #masked,” #AliyaRahman said.