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Functional Silence: Autism, Ableism, and Silent Exclusion in the Labor Market
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 24 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Functional Silence is not a book about autism as a diagnosis.
It is a book about what happens when neurodivergent people enter systems that were never designed for them.
Drawing from lived experience, social analysis, and ethical reflection, this book exposes how exclusion rarely appears as open hostility. Instead, it operates quietly - through procedures, unspoken norms, polite decisions, and institutional logic that slowly erase autistic professionals from the workplace.
Rather than asking What must autistic people change?, this book asks a harder question:
What does work do to those who function differently?
Across its chapters, the reader will encounter:
A critical examination of ableism in professional environments
The hidden costs of communication norms and sensory demands
How merit, productivity, and hierarchy become tools of exclusion
Why inclusion discourse often fails in practice
Practical reflections on survival, resistance, and clarity
This is not a motivational guide, nor a collection of easy solutions.
It is an honest, structured, and necessary book for autistic professionals, educators, managers, researchers, and anyone willing to look beyond inclusive language and confront how exclusion actually works.
Functional Silence names what is usually left unsaid - and refuses to let silence remain invisible.
Functional Silence não é um livro sobre o autismo como diagnóstico.
É um livro sobre o que acontece quando pessoas neurodivergentes entram em sistemas que nunca foram pensados para elas.
A partir de experiências vividas, análise social e reflexão ética, este livro expõe como a exclusão raramente se manifesta como hostilidade aberta. Em vez disso, ela opera de forma silenciosa - por meio de procedimentos, normas não ditas, decisões educadas e uma lógica institucional que, pouco a pouco, apaga profissionais autistas dos ambientes de trabalho.
Em vez de perguntar O que as pessoas autistas precisam mudar?, este livro propõe uma questão mais difÃcil:
O que o trabalho faz com aqueles que funcionam de maneira diferente?
Ao longo de seus capÃtulos, o leitor encontrará
Uma análise crÃtica do capacitismo nos ambientes profissionais
Os custos ocultos das normas de comunicação e das exigências sensoriais
Como mérito, produtividade e hierarquia se tornam instrumentos de exclusão
Por que o discurso da inclusão frequentemente falha na prática
Reflexões práticas sobre sobrevivência, resistência e clareza
Este não é um guia motivacional, nem uma coletânea de soluções fáceis.
É um livro honesto, estruturado e necessário para profissionais autistas, educadores, gestores, pesquisadores e para qualquer pessoa disposta a ir além da linguagem inclusiva e encarar como a exclusão realmente opera.
Functional Silence nomeia aquilo que costuma permanecer não dito - e se recusa a permitir que o silêncio continue invisÃvel.
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