The AutSide Podcast

Today’s episode explores a profound shift in perspective regarding a thirty-six-hour period of internal silence and cognitive fracture. Rather than viewing this event as a clinical failure or a simple breakdown, the author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, utilises the concept of “everywhen” to redefine the experience as a meaningful threshold. This terminology allows for a recursive understanding of time, where past and present exist simultaneously rather than in a rigid, linear sequence. By moving away from traditional chronological narratives, Dr. Hoerricks suggests that moments of loss can reveal a deeper intelligence and a multilayered reality beneath the surface of daily life. Ultimately, her narrative transforms a personal crisis into a kairotic interval, framing the restoration of the mind as a complex, architectural evolution.
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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.
Speaking with Cathy today felt like standing inside a wide, familiar field—one where the edges of language, teaching, and memory blur into something larger than any single discipline. I found myself reflecting on how the past weeks of writing have not really been about language at all, but about ecology—the ecology of a mind that begins with wholeness rather than fragments. I tried to explain that gestalt processing is not a broken version of analytic thought but a sovereign way of knowing, older and deeper than the remedial stories we are usually told. Meaning arrives first for me, not last, and the words are only the translation labour that follows. This is why my answers come in constellations of essays, why a single question can require seven pieces and still feel unfinished.
I spoke about time as I live it—kairos rather than chronos—how the present rewrites the past, how an article from 2022 can suddenly bloom with new sense when some future event supplies the missing frame. My process looks chaotic from the outside: talking at the computer, letting NotebookLM gather fragments, trusting patterns I cannot yet name. Often I realise I am not writing an essay at all but the skeleton of a book, something that seems to be asking—almost demanding—to be born. Yet I also admitted how inadequate I feel before the task, trying to hold something magnificent in the small cup of English.
We turned toward my classroom and the children who taught me more than any manual. I remembered the boy outside the chaotic room, the stucco wall under our hands, how a little shared regulation opened a friendship and a future. That moment crystallises what I want for my students and my own children: not remediation but recognition that their way of knowing is fit for purpose. I write it all down because language is not natural for me and yet the world requires it; because parents need scripts I once had to invent for myself; because someone must say plainly that silence is not defiance
By the end we were circling the question of a book—twenty-four chapters, perhaps, and the ordinary terror of publishing. I don’t write for the market but for the field itself, for the families who need a cup of tea more than a diagnosis, for the adults who have never seen themselves described kindly. If the book comes, it must be readable, hospitable, generous like my grandmother’s garden. Until then I will keep placing the pieces on the table, trusting that coherence will do what coherence does.
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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. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, explores the emotional weight of receiving this clinical label, noting how it can bring both clarity and confusion to those unfamiliar with the concept. Her writing critiques traditional medical language, suggesting that formal diagnoses often lack the depth and nuance needed to truly capture a person’s lived experience. Instead of viewing this cognitive style as a defect or disorder, Dr. Hoerricks presents it as a unique mental map that requires a different approach to interpretation. Ultimately, the prologue functions as an invitation to explore how meaning is constructed within minds that operate outside of linear or conventional frameworks.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/so-you-think-differently-a-field
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Today’s episode explores the transition from resisting external definitions of the mind to establishing a positive, self-contained identity for gestalt processors. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that defining oneself solely through critique and opposition to clinical frameworks is ultimately unsustainable and limiting. Instead, the focus shifts toward recognising gestalt consciousness as an inherent, naturally coherent architecture that exists independently of societal standards. This perspective moves beyond viewing neurodivergent experiences as mere workarounds or deficits, reframing them as a meaningful way of being. By returning to this internal "ground," the individual finds a sense of home that no longer requires the labor of constant defense.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/what-a-gestalt-mind-istoward-a-positive
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Today’s episode introduces gestalt processing not as a medical deficit or a developmental quirk, but as a sovereign way of knowing and a legitimate epistemology. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that traditional Western philosophy has historically favored linear, part-to-whole cognition, which treats knowledge as a series of fragmented building blocks. Because our educational and scientific systems are built on this step-by-step logic, those who perceive the world through whole patterns are often unfairly labeled as deviant. Dr. Hoerricks advocates for a paradigm shift that recognises gestalt intelligence as a distinct and valid center of truth. Ultimately, her writing suggests that society should change its systems to accommodate diverse minds rather than forcing those minds to conform to a narrow standard.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/from-processing-difference-to-epistemology
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