Christine Vester: Humanity Over Handcuffs: Protecting Autistic Lives in Legal Battles

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World

Tony Mantor

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🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Send us a text Christine Vester shares her mission with Humanity Over Handcuffs, a national advocacy movement protecting autistic individuals from being criminalized by the justice system. Her organization supports families, educates legal professionals, and works toward reforming a system that often treats neurological differences as criminal behavior. • Autistic behaviors like lack of eye contact, shutdowns, and sensory overload often misinterpreted by police as aggression or defianc...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Why Not Me the World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mayator.
0:11.6	Broadcasting from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee.
0:18.0	Join us as our guests tell us their stories
0:20.9	Some will make you laugh
0:22.5	Some will make you cry
0:24.3	Real life people
0:26.9	Who will inspire
0:28.8	And show that you are not alone
0:32.5	In this world
0:34.0	Hopefully you gain more awareness
0:37.1	Acceptance and a better understanding for autism
0:41.5	around the world.
0:50.9	Hi, I'm Tony Mantor. Welcome to Why Not Me the World, Humanity Over Handcuffs, the Silent Crisis Special Event.
0:59.0	Joining us today is Christine Vester.
1:01.9	She founded Humanity Over Handcuffs with the initiative of breaking the silence on the crisis-facing autistic and neurodiverse individuals in the justice system.
1:12.6	Through expert insights and a call for compassion over punishment, she is leading the
1:17.4	charge to transform lives and systems.
1:20.8	She joins us today as we explore her mission to put humanity first and why her work matters
1:26.7	to us all. Thanks for coming on.
1:29.1	Thank you, Chani. Thank you for having me on.
1:31.1	You're the founder of Humanity Over Handcuffs, a national advocacy effort focused on protecting
1:36.6	autistic individuals in the justice system. Can you share what the movement is and why it was
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