The AutSide Podcast

Today’s episode examines the societal consequences of ignoring gestalt language processing (GLP), framing the issue as an imbalance of institutional power rather than a simple academic debate. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that when dominant systems dismiss this unique way of making meaning, they inflict ethical harm on neurodivergent individuals. This rejection tra...

In this reflective piece, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks explores the origins of their expertise as a gestalt language processor, moving beyond standard professional credentials. Dr. Hoerricks challenges the societal expectation to provide external validation or academic proof to justify their specialised knowledge. Instead of offering a defensive argument, she focuses on personal lineage and the internal co...

Today’s episode explores the unique intellectual and sensory methods the author of the source article, Dr Jaime Hoerricks, employs to prepare for public speaking as an autistic gestalt processor. Rather than responding to specific interview prompts with direct answers, she describes a recursive preparation process that favors long-term coherence over immediate extraction. Dr. Hoerricks highlights...

Today’s episode explores how epistemology functions as a tool of institutional power rather than a simple personal preference or intellectual choice. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks argues that systems like clinical protocols and educational frameworks dictate what qualifies as legitimate evidence long before individuals can define their own truth. By moving away from univers...

Today’s episode introduces a reimagined perspective on estrangement, shifting the focus away from moral failure or personal blame. Rather than viewing the end of a relationship as a betrayal, the author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, describes it as a topological reality where the paths of two individuals simply no longer intersect. This framework suggests that distance occurs when th...

Today’s episode explores how traumatic experiences are physically preserved within the body rather than existing as mere psychological failures. Instead of viewing emotional dysregulation as a personal defect or lack of maturity, the author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that these reactions are actually logical survival mechanisms shaped by history and environment. When a pers...

In today’s video, I take a step back to situate three pieces that were written close together but operate in different registers. They aren’t iterations of the same argument. They’re layers—moving from analytic boundary-setting, to lived coherence, to origin. I wanted to speak them aloud, slowly, because some connections are easier to feel than to parse on the page. The first piece, Who Owns Gesta...

Today’s episode analyses Marge Blanc’s 2025 response to academic critiques regarding how individuals acquire language through gestalt languauge development. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that gestalt language processing should be viewed as a lived cognitive experience rather than a rigid clinical protocol or a laboratory-bound theory. By distinguishing between devel...

Today’s episode serves as a final integration of ideas regarding how autistic individuals experience and define their personal connections. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, explores various relational structures, such as queerplatonic bonds and customised monogamy, to challenge the societal narrative that these unconventional dynamics are inherently flawed. Instead of viewing...

Today’s episode explores the profound concept of solitary sovereignty, specifically within the context of autistic autonomy. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, challenges the societal assumption that a life without a romantic partner is incomplete or provisional, refuting the idea that being single is merely a waiting period. Instead, Dr. Hoerricks presents non-partnered existe...

Today’s episode explores the concept of relational ecosystems, proposing a move away from the traditional two-person couple as the primary unit of social stability. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, suggests that true belonging occurs through distributed care and shared living environments where support is constant rather than negotiated. By highlighting the economic and mater...

Today’s episode explores a unique approach to customised monogamy that focuses on relationships forming naturally before any formal rules are established. Rather than relying on rigid structures or milestones to define a bond, the author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, describes an innate durability that emerges when an intimacy feels functional from the very beginning. These connectio...

Today’s episode explores the nature of queerplatonic bonds. The author of the source articke, Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, argues that these are deep, sustaining forms of autistic attachment that arrive “already whole” and are “inhabitable from the start.” Dr. Hoerricks emphasises that these relationships do not require escalation, as they are not prefaces to something else like a romantic or sexual part...

Today’s episode explores the concept of polyamory, reframing it as a form of “Gestalt-Preserving Intimacy.” The author of the source article, Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, challenges the widely held belief that emotional care and attention are finite resources that diminish when distributed across multiple relationships. Instead, Dr. Hoerricks focuses on the lived experience where multiplicity does not le...

Today’s episode introduces the concept of relationship anarchy as a framework for care. Authored by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, the source article focuses on the psychological and bodily relief that comes from engaging in relationships without the need for ranking, definition, or hierarchical expectations. Dr. Hoerricks argues that eliminating these pressures allows the “felt whole” of a person or conne...

Today’s episode explores the concept of “default intimacy” and its impact, particularly on autistic individuals. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that common relationship scripts and milestones are not neutral, but rather clarify intimacy for some whilst causing fragmentation and harm for autistic gestalt processors. Dr. Hoerricks describes the unsettling experience wh...

Today’s episode examines an essay titled “Beyond the Couple: The Body Knows First,” authored by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, focusing on Gestalt Processing and the Felt Architecture of Relationship. The central argument is that the physical body often recognises safety and forms meaning in relationships before conscious thought or language can articulate it. This “arrival without explanation” is describe...

Today’s episode introduces a series focusing on autistic love, gestalt attunement, and the rejection of conventional intimacy. The author of the source article, Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, begins by reflecting on an intense, immediate recognition of her desire to marry her wife, describing this knowing as a “quiet internal alignment” rather than a logical progression or forecast. This internal experienc...

Today’s episode addresses the issue of vicarious trauma and the invisible toll of forensic work. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, explains that the piece was initially written in April 2025 for a forensic science journal in response to a formal call for scholarship on this specific type of trauma but was ultimately declined without comment. Dr. Hoerricks argues that the work...

Today’s episode examines the concept of an adult life lived cohesively and collaboratively, where work aligns with temperament and community support exists, contrasting this with a precarious reality for many autistic and AuDHD individuals. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, also discusses the failure of regulation and enforcement concerning what is implied to be experimental i...

Today’s episode explores a Substack post by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “When the Files Reopen: Gestalt Memory, HRT, and Writing from the Body,” which outlines the nature of their writing project. Dr. Hoerricks clarifies that this work, hosted on their newest Substack Sensual Residue , should not be mistaken for traditional memoir, confession, or a retrospective erotic archive, even though the co...

A conversation between Cathy and I about gestalt being—not as theory, but as lived coherence. Family scripts, shared meaning, professional erasure, and the quiet refusal to dismantle what already works. Evidence lives here. Some conversations don’t begin with a question. They begin with pressure—end of term, accumulated witnessing, too many whole things arriving at once. This episode came from tha...

Today’s episode focuses on the concept that setting boundaries, particularly within autistic, queer, and trans contexts, is frequently misinterpreted as causing harm or acting with cruelty. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that acts of refusal, pausing, or remaining unresolved should often be understood as ethical acts of self-care and compassion, rather than failures...

Today’s episode offers a deep reflection on the common societal perception of estrangement. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, challenges the prevailing notion that distance or separation in relationships is inherently a failure—of love, effort, or maturity—often leading to moral indictment of the person who withdraws. Instead, she argues that this interpretation is inaccurate...

Today’s episode is a reflection by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, on the interwoven experiences of being AuDHD, a gestalt language processor (GLP), and queer and trans. Dr. Hoerricks argues against the cultural assumption that true intimacy and depth are measured by full disclosure and complete legibility, especially for marginalised individuals. She clarifies that her practice of “selective depth” is not...