{"product_id":"reading-life-backward-late-recognition-on-the-autism-spectrum-9781997935902","title":"Reading Life Backward: Late Recognition on the Autism Spectrum","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christopher Graham Ccht\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Owhms Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Owhms Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Autism Spectrum Disorders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREADING LIFE BACKWARD: LATE RECOGNITION ON THE AUTISM SCALE is not a guide to becoming functional.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is an examination of what happens when someone already is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores late recognition of autism through a series of essays organized not by timeline, but by clarity. Each piece isolates a pattern that once operated invisibly-masking, internal system-building, misattunement, endurance mistaken for resilience-and renders it intelligible without reducing it to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeficit or disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten from within a specific autistic configuration historically described as Asperger's, the work focuses on lives that appeared intact from the outside while quietly collapsing under unseen strain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh verbal ability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePredictive cognition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtensive self-management.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronic exhaustion with no obvious cause. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunctioning that concealed cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than offering strategies or solutions, READING LIFE BACKWARD: LATE RECOGNITION ON THE AUTISM SCALE provides orientation. It traces how survival structures form without conscious intent, how confidence can coexist with exclusion, and how identity built for endurance begins to fail once recognition arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterwoven throughout are situational pieces-architectural, elemental, relational-that allow meaning to settle without instruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not explanations. They are points of contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for readers who have always sensed that something about their life required excessive effort-but lacked language for why. For those who did not break, but narrowed. For those whose clarity never translated into belonging. For those who are not looking to be fixed, but to finally understand the structure they've been living inside. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story of recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a record of recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd once seen, it cannot be unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Owhms Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47570642174103,"sku":"9781997935902","price":1093.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781997935902.webp?v=1774883295","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/reading-life-backward-late-recognition-on-the-autism-spectrum-9781997935902","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}