STATIC

For readers of literary memoir, neurodivergent testimony, and survival stories told from inside the body.

STATIC: A Survival Record is a hybrid memoir about growing up without the language for what was happening-and spending a lifetime trying to translate the silence.

Ryan Burbank was the good kid. The quiet one. The helpful one. The girl who followed the rules, earned praise, studied other people like textbooks, and learned to disappear politely. Beneath that performance was a nervous system absorbing everything: sound, shame, expectation, danger, disappointment, desire, and the impossible math of becoming acceptable.

Through sharp fragments and vivid scenes, STATIC follows the long arc from childhood masking to school survival, from unsafe love to motherhood, from burnout to late autism and ADHD diagnosis, and from self-erasure to witness.

This is a book about being misread. About the cost of compliance. About the girl who was called too much before anyone asked what she was carrying.

It is not a cure story.
It is not a lesson.
It is not a neat triumph.

It is the sound of a life finally tuning itself back in.