The AutSide Podcast

Today’s episode outlines how ableist systems create an architecture of impunity that allows abusers to flourish in institutional settings. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that abusers succeed not because of exceptional skill, but because organisational structures—in schools, workplaces, and medicine—are designed to reward superficial charm and strategic ambiguity whil...

Today’s episode discusses gestalt processing in autistic individuals, describing it as a primary mode of perception that registers the emotional atmosphere or “field” of a situation before verbal content. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, explains how this atmospheric attunement allows Gestalt Language Processors (GLPs) to instantly sense danger, like the presence of a narciss...

Today’s episode focuses on autistic self-protection and reclaiming personal perception against abusive dynamics. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, asserts that autistic individuals are often targeted for exploitation because systems train them to doubt their own senses and override their recognition of harm. Dr. Hoerricks frames the advice as a “grimoire” or collection of spel...

Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being ignored by academia. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, defines a scientific workflow as a reliably repeatable pattern of documented activity, asserting that Blanc’s method meets this standard through its five pillars: reliability, repeat...

Today’s episode provides an autistic critique of sex education research, specifically focusing on a study by Panagiotakopoulou and colleagues, arguing that the neurotypical frameworks employed render autistic sexuality and experience unthinkable or absent. The author of the source document, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, contends that the research fails due to its ontological assumptions, which incorrectly...

Today’s episode provides excerpts from an analysis titled “EPICAC: The Machine Who Felt Too Much” by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, offering an overview of Kurt Vonnegut’s short story through an autistic lens. Dr. Hoerricks argues that Vonnegut intuitively wrote about neurodivergence, specifically the autistic mind’s traits such as literalism, pattern-driven thinking, and “system-honest” behaviour, long be...

Today’s episode presents an extensive cross-examination of a systematic review concerning interventions based on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) and Natural Language Acquisition (NLA), specifically critiquing a paper by Bryant et al. and a corresponding Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) podcast. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, alleges “perjury of meth...

Today’s episode is an excerpt from a reflective synthesis by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “ The Architecture of Coherence: On Attunement, Expression, and Resonance, ” prepared for an upcoming conference. Dr. Hoerricks, who is an AuDHD gestalt language processor, argues that autistic communication is a complex design based on “frequency” and “resonance,” rather than a deficit. The source article is...

Today’s episode explores the concept of co-regulation as a fundamental, physiological process of shared rhythm and presence that precedes language and cognitive understanding. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that co-regulation, which involves the alignment of nervous systems through breath, posture, and rhythm, is essential for safety and flourishing, citing research...

Today’s episode fundamentally argues that emotional regulation is a relational and environmental process, not merely an individual act of willpower. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, an AuDHD GLP and alexithymic educator, reimagines the classroom as a “living nervous system“ where factors like sensory ecology, architectural design, and the teacher’s own regulated presence (”co...

Today’s episode fundamentally challenges the standard verbal and chart-based approaches to emotional literacy, particularly for autistic and gestalt-processing learners. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that emotion originates in the body as sensory experience—rhythm, texture, and movement—and that language and naming only follow as an “afterglow” of this felt experien...

Today’s episode provides a profound first-person reflection, authored by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, on the experience of alexithymia and emotional dysregulation from an autistic GLP perspective. Dr. Hoerricks challenges the traditional diagnostic imagination, arguing that alexithymia is not the absence of feeling but rather an undivided, holistic experience of emotion (described as a “chord” or “sympho...

Today’s episode challenges conventional, deficit-focused views of alexithymia, which is often characterised as the absence of words for feelings, by reframing it as a fidelity to wholeness. The author of the source article, Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, argues that for individuals, particularly those on the autism spectrum, who engage in gestalt language processing (GLP), emotion is experienced as a conti...

Today’s episode critiques the Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) industry, particularly in autism treatment, framing its current struggles as an inevitable collapse of a “control economy.” The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that ABA transformed into a profit-driven market focused on billable hours and compliance metrics, exemplified by the layoffs at Arizona Autism and the...

Today’s episode critiques how dominant culture polices marginalised creation, specifically focusing on the intersection of queerness, autism, and disability. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, uses the example of designing a dress with the AI tool Sora to discuss the backlash against non-traditional methods of creation, arguing that the criticism is rooted in fear of unfettered...

Today’s episode provides excerpts from an essay by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “The Curriculum of Touch,” which serves as a lyrical introduction to the author’s “Afterglow” project, intended as a sensual archive of queer, trans, and autistic memory. Dr. Hoerricks critiques established clinical and academic views of autism, particularly the focus on “deficit” and “lack of empathy,” by arguing that...

Today’s episode argues against the persistence of the diametric cognition model in autism and psychosis research, which positions the two conditions as cognitive opposites. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, traces how this “Cambridge axis” originated with papers like Crespi and Badcock (2008), noting that it continues to permeate contemporary studies, often through subtle cita...

Today’s episode critiques the modern “scientific study” of autism, asserting that it has transformed autistic individuals into a mere dataset subject to extraction rather than being treated as people. The author of the critique, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that contemporary research, exemplified by a specific study using a large federal cohort, prioritises algorithmic modeling and statistical thro...

Today’s episode explores the journey of self-discovery and embodiment as an Autistic trans woman. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, describes her creative process, which is Gestalt-based—beginning with atmosphere and feeling (”vision first”) before language or conventional design (”language after”). Dr. Hoerricks details the process of using an AI rendering tool, Sora, as a ge...

Today’s episode presents a critical comparison between two distinct approaches to autism research, symbolised by two institutions located near Cambridge, England. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, contrasts the GRRAND study, which is highlighted for its collaborative methodology, prioritising the voices of neurodivergent adolescents to understand emotional life and regulation...

Today’s episode traces a journey of self-discovery at the intersection of gender identity (transfemme), neurodivergence (AuDHD), and language processing (GLP). The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, details her struggle with academic language and traditional therapy, which demanded linear thought, arguing that her natural poetic and metaphorical language was initially pathologised...

Today’s episode reflects on the politics of recognition within academic research, particularly concerning practitioner-led work on gestalt language processing. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, details an email from Marge Blanc, originator of the Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework, who clarified that the longitudinal research Dr. Hoerricks presented as hypothetical i...

Today’s episode offers a critical examination of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI). The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that the search for the “cause” of autism, particularly through large-scale data science and genetic research, is not a benign quest for understanding but a continuation of historical practices aimed at erasi...

Today’s episode serves as a deep meditation on autistic temporality and its implications for connection, safety, and community. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, explores how autistic time is non-linear and “recursive,” where memory functions as “presence distributed through time” rather than a sequential past. Dr. Hoerricks contrasts this durational literacy with the demands...

Today’s episode presents an autistic and queer reading of Karen Barad’s agential realism and quantum physics. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, explores how gestalt language processing (GLP) and autistic ways of knowing align with Barad’s concepts of intra-action and entanglement, arguing that perception is not passive reception but active participation in the world. Key theme...