The AutSide Podcast

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 the tension between standard professional expectations and her own need to integrate theory, memory, and lived experience into a unified whole. By refusing to simplify her insights into discrete segments, she advocates for a holistic approach to communication that respects the complexity of her internal meaning-making. Ultimately, the text serves as a reflection on how non-linear thinkers navigate systems that often prioritise compliance and speed over genuine understanding.Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/how-i-prepare-to-speak-when-the-workLet 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 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 universalist standards, Dr. Hoerricks advocates for ‘situated realism,’ which prioritises lived experience and embodied adaptation over rigid academic categories. She ultimately challenges the way diagnostic manuals and research hierarchies silence personal testimony by labeling it as mere noise. She suggests that true understanding of the mind must be rooted in contextual meaning and the relational survival of the individual.Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/what-counts-as-knowing-the-mind-fromLet 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 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