Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
@jaimehoerricks.bsky.social
Educator, Writer, System Disruptor | No Place for Autism, Holistic Language Instruction, Decolonising Language Education, Liminal Echoes, In the Stillness of Chaos | AuDHD & Trans | Teaching & writing as resistance Read more on AutSide.Substack.com
My latest journal article is live. When Delay is a Category Error: Gestalt Processing and the Misreading of Autistic Development. skgpublishers.com/assets/artic... - here’s the direct link. #autism #gestaltlanguageprocessing #autistic #gestaltprocessing #speechtherapy #specialeducation
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My first test of Substack’s Recording Studio—a little rough at the start, but useful. A quick preview of Interior Architecture: reading the DSM not as deficit inventory, but as a record of gestalt traces hidden in plain sight. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Testing the Studio, Opening the Archive
My first go with Substack’s Recording Studio—and a quick introduction to Interior Architecture, a series that reads autism diagnosis through a gestalt lens.
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A peer-reviewed paper on GLP, autotheory, and narrative sovereignty meets the Language Industry. A cheeky satire of naysayers — and sincere thanks to the editors who let the whole stand. Read it, share it, argue with it. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
The Script Enters the Archive: Otherwise Ways of Knowing
A playful dismantling of analytic supremacy, written in gratitude to the reviewers who allowed a different architecture of language into the archive.
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It’s amazing, the confidence that happens when you get a new pair of glasses. It had been about two years too long with the old pair. Glasses are expensive. But now. Wow. So happy to be able to see properly again. autside.substack.com/p/sunday-mor...
Phase and amplitude: a kiss can be loud yet small in meaning, or quiet and world-shifting; friends carry different inner moons—desire, comfort, curiosity, grief; ethics is listening to the difference with care and consent. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
On Kissing Friends: Phase and Amplitude
On intensity, meaning, and the many moons of a shared mouth
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I read the comments—people want a GLP field guide to become a book. I’m answering with gratitude, humility, and care for the trust offered, asking for patience as the work grows in its own time. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Starting Where Meaning Lives: The First Shape of a GLP Field Guide
The Book That Asked to Be Written — On the Way to a Book About Gestalt Minds
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A new series begins on kissing friends—queer, consenting, playful—where affection is shared, not hoarded; learning touch by feel, not manuals, and how such small turns remake the relational field with joy and care. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
On Kissing Friends: Of Course We Kiss Our Friends
On queer affection, shared mouths, and the weather between friends.
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Imaginary numbers were once exiled—now they power the world. A seanchaidh-teacher tells how maths learned to turn, not march—and how gestalt minds, long called unreal, may be the dimension our moment needs. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
The Square Root of Us: Imaginary Numbers and Other Real Minds
On imaginary numbers, epistemic sovereignty, and the long turning of the field
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A mouth remembered, a body changed: the shock and joy of rediscovery where senses outrank sight and the Trickster proves continuity isn’t sameness—queer geometry beyond Euclid. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
Afterglow: The Trickster at Mouth-Height
A mouth remembered, a body changed: the shock and joy of rediscovery where senses outrank sight and the Trickster proves continuity isn’t sameness—queer geometry beyond Euclid.
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Neurodivergent femininity as lived climate, not performance—an inventory of clothes, body, memory, and becoming; from Grammy noise to courthouse courage, a tall, capable trans woman learning her name. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Not a Performance: Notes on a Neurodivergent Femininity
I Dress in Layers the Way Rivers Keep Memories
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A sideways erotics of field and frequency: queer, autistic, sensory-seeking—pleasure as dialogue, rupture as hinge, and a watchful Observer helping language meet what the body knew first. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
Undone: The Observer's Visit
Queer, sensory, off-angle erotica where attunement matters more than act.
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One word—everywhen—reopens a frightening silence as threshold, not failure, recasting a 36-hour fracture through kairos and recursion to reveal the mind’s quiet intelligence beneath chronos. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Field Notes from Everywhen: On Living in More Than One Tense
Everywhen, Revisited: Kairos After the Silence
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Gestalt knowing begins with the whole—meaning first, words later. I write to translate a mind that moves in kairos, to offer parents and students recognition rather than repair, and to imagine a book that could hold the field. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Video Episode 07: A Sovereign Way of Knowing
Watch now | Gestalt as Homeland: Raising a Sovereign Mind
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Today’s episode serves as an introductory guide to understanding the gestalt processor, a term used to describe individuals who perceive information as unified wholes rather than fragmented parts. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Episode 502: The Architecture of Gestalt Minds
Listen now | Today’s episode serves as an introductory guide to understanding the gestalt processor, a term used to describe individuals who perceive information as unified wholes rather than fragment...
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A meditation on meaning-time, attunement, and erotic resonance—tracing a 30-year journey from wordless sensation to language. This piece frames desire as weather, intimacy as climate, and connection as a rare harmonic chord that lingers. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
Wanted: Weather That Knows My Name
Meaning-Time, Erotic Attunement, and the Refusal of Urgency
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A gentle field guide to gestalt minds—how meaning forms whole, how time ripens, how coherence lives without lines. Not a therapy manual but a map of a mind never broken—and an invitation to grow this into a book. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
So You Think Differently: A Field Guide to Gestalt Minds
Meaning as Whole, Not Fragments
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Beyond critique, a positive ontology: gestalt minds as native, coherent architectures. Meaning forms whole, time ripens by kairos, values emerge naturally. Not resistance, not workaround—just a way of being, finally named as home. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
What a Gestalt Mind Is—Toward a Positive Ontology of Whole-Pattern Knowing
After refusal, a return to ground—naming gestalt as native architecture, inherent coherence, and a way of being that does not need resistance to exist.
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A gestalt maturation story—from childhood unease without words to adult interpretive sovereignty. Tracing how safety, embodiment, and visibility sharpen perception, turning unnamed discomfort into pattern recognition, power literacy, and narrative control. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Gestalt Maturation: From “Something Feels Off” to “I Can Name the Pattern”
Gestalt maturation, embodied perception, and epistemic sovereignty
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A sex-positive reflection on learning desire before language—autistic, queer San Francisco in the 80s—where friendship, trust, and play helped bodies discover what felt right, one night at a time, without scripts, labels, or centrality. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
Multiplicity: Why This Doesn’t Translate
Desire Without a Script — Tenderloin, Before the Grammar
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A field-first opening that reframes gestalt processors as whole-memory minds, rejects eugenic deficit narratives, and asserts narrative sovereignty—positioning our cognition, connection, pacing, and lineage as coherent wisdom, not disorder. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Legacy: We Are Here Because Autistics Found Each Other
On Whole-Memory Minds, Relational Ecology, and Cognitive Freedom
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Today’s episode explores the scientific validation of Gestalt processing, challenging the traditional belief that language is understood only in a linear, fragmented manner. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Episode 497: Gestalt Affirmed—The Psycholinguistics of Holistic Meaning
Listen now | Today’s episode explores the scientific validation of Gestalt processing, challenging the traditional belief that language is understood only in a linear, fragmented manner.
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A sex-positive remembrance of queer San Francisco—where pleasure wasn’t central or owned. Sex as care among friends: shared, witnessed, generous, skilled, and free of jealousy, rooted in trust and joy. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
Multiplicity: Sex Without Centrality
Pleasure Without Ownership — On Sex as Generosity Among Friends
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A counterpoint piece: three psycholinguistic papers—from Europe to Kazakhstan—quietly affirm gestalt meaning. Across interaction, cognition, and words, they converge on one truth: meaning emerges as wholes, not fragments. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Gestalt Affirmed: Psycholinguistic Allies
Psycholinguistic Evidence for Gestalt Meaning
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A reflection on friendship as the primary structure of queer intimacy—before the labels multiplied. On attunement, trust, and why kissing and fucking friends once felt obvious, coherent, and deeply rooted in care rather than category. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
Multiplicity: Of Course We Kiss Our Friends
Attraction After Attunement — Desire That Took Its Time
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