[image: Book cover with a black background. At the top, large white text & then yellow text reads “Autistic Disturbances” then smaller yellow text reads, “Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe”.  A large photo in the center features a storage rack with stacked cylinders, with different whimsical buttons on the lid of each cylinder White text below the graphic reads, “Julia Miele Rodas”. Smaller yellow text below reads, “Foreword by Melanie Yergeau”.] .  Maxfield Sparrow unstrangemind.com Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe By Julia Miele Rodas, University of Michigan Press, 2018. “Autism has a particular language, one that has been extensively recognized, researched, and described by clinical theorists, literary scholars, and autism (self)advocates” Rodas writes in her groundbreaking book on Autistic poetics, Autistic Disturbances. Through discussing the features of Autistic voice and examining various novels, short stories, and even diagnostic literature through…