{"product_id":"autistic-standpoint-theory-a-trauma-informed-guide-to-systemic-oppression-9798241122322","title":"Autistic Standpoint Theory: (A Trauma-Informed Guide to Systemic Oppression)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Isha Snow\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Research \u0026amp; Methodology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAutistic Standpoint Theory (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Trauma-Informed Guide to Systemic Oppression)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Isha Sarah Snow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if autism is not a disorder located in individual bodies, but a signal of systemic failure in how modern societies organize collective development, care, and human connection?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutistic Standpoint Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work that reframes autism through sociology, anthropology, attachment science, trauma-informed neuroscience, and human rights analysis. Drawing from the first seventy-two essays of Isha Sarah Snow's new and already widely read Substack publication by the same title, this book advances a cohesive theoretical framework that challenges deficit-based psychology and exposes how Western social systems pathologize predictable responses to relational deprivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the arguments introduced in Snow's first book, \u003ci\u003eAutism in America: One Woman's Search for Healing\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume moves from cultural critique to deeper structural analysis. Snow demonstrates how policies and institutions shaped by colonial cognition, hyper-individualism, and behaviorist ideology systematically undermine early attachment, fracture nervous-system development, and moralize distress. Autism, in this framework, emerges not as a mystery or an epidemic, but as a social-ecological indicator revealing widespread developmental discordance between human evolutionary needs and modern governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough concepts such as childism, recursive repair, relational accountability, and the collective nervous system, \u003ci\u003eAutistic Standpoint Theory\u003c\/i\u003e connects rising autism prevalence to broader patterns of class inequality, institutional violence, and human rights violations. The book argues that class warfare is enacted not only through poverty, marginalization, and economic exploitation, but also through the privatization of care and the erosion of relational infrastructure, producing populations that are emotionally fragmented, relationally ruptured, socially divided, and therefore easier to govern through fear and punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is not a diagnostic manual and does not deny biological diversity. Instead, it offers a relational lens that integrates lived autistic experience with rigorous scholarship, positioning autistic perception as a legitimate epistemic standpoint capable of exposing contradictions that dominant systems normalize and obscure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten at the intersection of memoir, theory, and public-facing scholarship, \u003ci\u003eAutistic Standpoint Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is both an analytical framework and a call to action. It invites readers to reconsider what we define as normal, healthy, and functional, and to imagine systems of education, mental health, and governance grounded in attunement, dignity, and collective care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- autism and neurodiversity studies\u003cbr\u003e- trauma-informed psychology\u003cbr\u003e- sociology and anthropology\u003cbr\u003e- disability justice and human rights\u003cbr\u003e- decolonial and systems theory\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592888008855,"sku":"9798241122322","price":12032.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798241122322.webp?v=1774979751","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/autistic-standpoint-theory-a-trauma-informed-guide-to-systemic-oppression-9798241122322","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}