The AutSide Podcast

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 the material conditions of life, such as time and energy, prevent meaningful connection. By viewing this separation as attenuation rather than rupture, Dr. Hoerricks removes the need for culprits and accusations. Ultimately, this approach advocates for an ethic of distance that preserves personal coherence whilst acknowledging the natural divergence of human lives. This perspective allows individuals to process loss without the added burden of assigning or accepting guilt.Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-distance-at-which-we-live-onLet me know what you think.The AutSide is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit autside.substack.com/subscribe

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 person is triggered, they often revert to the developmental state they were in when the original injury occurred, reflecting a physical memory rather than a character flaw. Dr. Hoerricks criticises modern systems that pathologise or moralise these behaviours, suggesting that they unfairly ignore the external conditions that caused the distress. Ultimately, she advocates for shifting the focus from individual pathology to an understanding of how power and context influence human responses.Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/gestalt-processors-the-body-remembersLet me know what you think.The AutSide is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit autside.substack.com/subscribe

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 Gestalt Language Processing?, did necessary institutional work. It traced questions of authority, capture, and who gets to define GLP as knowledge rather than experience. The two pieces that followed weren’t meant to extend that argument so much as let it settle—into the body, into memory, into the deeper sequence of how knowing actually arrives.This conversation is about that sequence. About the difference between explanation and recognition. About why whole-to-part cognition resists premature translation, and why that resistance isn’t a flaw but a clue. Gestalt language processing doesn’t begin in language, and it doesn’t belong solely to method. It lives in bodies, relationships, timing, and coherence across time.I’m also speaking here to Marge Blanc’s call that gestalt processors must be allowed to speak from the centre of their own cognition—not as illustrative examples, but as theorists of our own lives. This video is one attempt to do that out loud, across registers, without flattening what needed different forms to be said.If you’re new to this work, consider this an orientation rather than an entry point. If you’ve been following along, consider it a pause—a chance to see how argument, resonance, and myth are working together here. We’ll move slowly. Recognition is enough.The AutSide is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit autside.substack.com/subscribe

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 developmental trajectories and institutional methods, Blanc shifts the intellectual authority away from traditional peer-reviewed gatekeeping and toward the first-hand observations of those within the community. Dr. Hoerricks highlights a tension between experimental abstraction and the relational reality of how neurodivergent individuals actually communicate in daily life. Ultimately, she suggests that legitimate knowledge in autism research must include non-linear developmental patterns that traditional scientific models often overlook.Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/who-owns-gestalt-language-processingLet me know what you think.The AutSide is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit autside.substack.com/subscribe

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 these relationships as projects in need of repair, Dr. Hoerricks emphasises that autistic love is often already whole and valid in its own right. By utilising a gestalt processing perspective, she moves away from standard milestones to focus on relational autonomy and deep meaning. Ultimately, her work functions as a refusal of traditional standards, celebrating the unique ways neurodivergent people foster intimacy and community.Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/beyond-the-couple-capstone-your-relationshipLet me know what you think.The AutSide is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit autside.substack.com/subscribe