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
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Long before queer joy felt like home, there was the work of surviving without words. An account of early perception, borrowed language, and the loneliness of knowing too precisely.
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The Wordless Knowing: The Loneliness of Perceiving Without Vocabulary
The Cost of the Wrong Words
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January 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Long before queer joy felt like home, there was the work of surviving without words. An account of early perception, borrowed language, and the loneliness of knowing too precisely.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
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From imposed epistemologies to situated realism, this essay argues that distress is real, adaptation embodied, and meaning contextual—returning knowledge to lived coherence, time, relation, and survival.
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What Counts as Knowing the Mind: From Universal Truth to Lived Coherence
Situated realism, gestalt knowing, and why embodied lives—not institutions—decide what is real.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:38 AM
From imposed epistemologies to situated realism, this essay argues that distress is real, adaptation embodied, and meaning contextual—returning knowledge to lived coherence, time, relation, and survival.
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A childhood shaped by cold, silence, and punishment. An adult life that found warmth, pleasure, and chosen safety. This piece begins where language was not yet safe—and the body learned first.
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The Wordless Knowing: Before Language
What the Body Learned First
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January 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
A childhood shaped by cold, silence, and punishment. An adult life that found warmth, pleasure, and chosen safety. This piece begins where language was not yet safe—and the body learned first.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
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Estrangement reframed as topology, not blame. When lives no longer intersect close enough to sustain relation, pressing pause becomes an ethic of distance—protecting coherence without rupture, grievance, or self-erasure.
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The Distance at Which We Live: On Estrangement as Topology, Not Failure
Estrangement, Proximity, and the Ethics of Pressing Pause.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Estrangement reframed as topology, not blame. When lives no longer intersect close enough to sustain relation, pressing pause becomes an ethic of distance—protecting coherence without rupture, grievance, or self-erasure.
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An opening gesture for a series on perception without language. Not an explanation, but a slow answer to wonder—offered in movements, not arguments. This is where the knowing begins.
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The Wordless Knowing: Before Words
When Meaning Precedes Words: A Record of Knowing Before It Could Speak
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January 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
An opening gesture for a series on perception without language. Not an explanation, but a slow answer to wonder—offered in movements, not arguments. This is where the knowing begins.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
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Distress isn’t failure—it’s memory under power. Epigenetics shows how bodies remember, trauma explains when memory returns, and PTMF explains why responses made sense. Change the conditions, and access—not pathology—shifts.
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Gestalt Processors: The Body Remembers, the Wound Returns, the Response Makes Sense
Epigenetics, Trauma, and Power—Why the Body’s Responses Are Not Pathology but History, Design, and Survival
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January 4, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Distress isn’t failure—it’s memory under power. Epigenetics shows how bodies remember, trauma explains when memory returns, and PTMF explains why responses made sense. Change the conditions, and access—not pathology—shifts.
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In today’s video, I take a step back to situate three pieces that were written close together but operate in different registers. I wanted to speak them aloud, slowly, because some connections are easier to feel than to parse on the page.
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Video Episode 03: Who Owns GLP?
Watch now | In today’s video, I take a step back to situate three pieces that were written close together but operate in different registers.
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January 4, 2026 at 11:29 AM
In today’s video, I take a step back to situate three pieces that were written close together but operate in different registers. I wanted to speak them aloud, slowly, because some connections are easier to feel than to parse on the page.
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After “Who Owns Gestalt Language Processing?”, this piece turns to origin. A mythic, queer account of how knowing arrives before language, why explanation comes later, and why gestalt processors must be allowed to document from the centre.
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Beyond the Question of Who Owns GLP: Who Gets to Speak from Inside Knowing
A Gentle Afterword on Origin, Recognition, and Lived Coherence
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January 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
After “Who Owns Gestalt Language Processing?”, this piece turns to origin. A mythic, queer account of how knowing arrives before language, why explanation comes later, and why gestalt processors must be allowed to document from the centre.
autside.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
autside.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
A mythic waypoint on origin, Enoch, and the Watchers—how recognition precedes proof, how meaning arrived in my life before words, and why this work turns now toward what the body knew first, before language learned to speak.
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The Weight of Knowing: Transmission Without Explanation
A Mythic Backstory for Sensual Residue — On Origin, Queer Knowing, and Why This Space Exists
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January 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
A mythic waypoint on origin, Enoch, and the Watchers—how recognition precedes proof, how meaning arrived in my life before words, and why this work turns now toward what the body knew first, before language learned to speak.
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Marge Blanc’s 2025 response redraws the boundaries of autism research—refusing to reduce gestalt language processing to protocol or lab method, and reasserting lived, longitudinal GLP coherence as theory.
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Who Owns Gestalt Language Processing?
Epistemic Authority, Lived Cognition, and the Limits of Protocol*
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January 3, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Marge Blanc’s 2025 response redraws the boundaries of autism research—refusing to reduce gestalt language processing to protocol or lab method, and reasserting lived, longitudinal GLP coherence as theory.
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It seemed so far away when I purchased this bottle. But, here we are. My first holiday as a pensioner. I didn’t think I’d make it. Sláinte!
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It seemed so far away when I purchased this bottle. But, here we are. My first holiday as a pensioner. I didn’t think I’d make it. Sláinte!
In queer space, desire learns through touch, not scripts. Each encounter becomes co-regulation—partners teaching, guiding, steadying—so a GLP body can want, hesitate, and learn without speaking at all.
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Field Notes on Touch: Shy, Full of Desire
Attunement as Practice — Learning Want Through Touch.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In queer space, desire learns through touch, not scripts. Each encounter becomes co-regulation—partners teaching, guiding, steadying—so a GLP body can want, hesitate, and learn without speaking at all.
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A reflection on autistic estrangement, matristic ethics, and queer relational time—why distance isn’t always failure, love doesn’t require ownership, and pressing pause can be an ethical act of care.
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Pressing Pause: Estrangement, Sovereignty, and the Queer Ethics of Non-Ownership
A reflection on autistic estrangement, matristic ethics, and why love does not require possession.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A reflection on autistic estrangement, matristic ethics, and queer relational time—why distance isn’t always failure, love doesn’t require ownership, and pressing pause can be an ethical act of care.
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Today’s episode is a reflection by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, on the interwoven experiences of being AuDHD, a gestalt language processor (GLP), and queer and trans.
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Episode 451: Selective Depth—Queerness, GLP, and Refusal to Be Extracted
Today’s episode is a reflection by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, on the interwoven experiences of being AuDHD, a gestalt language processor (GLP), and queer and trans.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Today’s episode is a reflection by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, on the interwoven experiences of being AuDHD, a gestalt language processor (GLP), and queer and trans.
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This series begins before scripts—an autistic, queer body learning touch through risk, play, and proximity in The Club. These are field notes on consent as curiosity: how meaning arrives through skin before words.
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Field Notes on Touch: Touch Without a Script
How Meaning Arrives Through the Skin
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December 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This series begins before scripts—an autistic, queer body learning touch through risk, play, and proximity in The Club. These are field notes on consent as curiosity: how meaning arrives through skin before words.
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An AutSide reflection on GLP cognition, trans visibility, and queer intimacy—why selective depth is not avoidance but safety, and how refusing extraction protects the kind of closeness that can actually last.
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Selective Depth: Queerness, GLP, and the Refusal to Be Extracted
A reflection on autistic cognition, trans visibility, and choosing the kind of closeness that does not consume us.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
An AutSide reflection on GLP cognition, trans visibility, and queer intimacy—why selective depth is not avoidance but safety, and how refusing extraction protects the kind of closeness that can actually last.
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Today’s episode examines an article, “When Writing Breaks Down,” which acts as a guide for teachers on understanding struggles related to writing and communication.
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Episode 450: When Writing Breaks Down: A Teacher's Guide to SLT, OT, and the Spaces Between
Today’s episode examines an article, “When Writing Breaks Down,” which acts as a guide for teachers on understanding struggles related to writing and communication.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Today’s episode examines an article, “When Writing Breaks Down,” which acts as a guide for teachers on understanding struggles related to writing and communication.
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Reposted by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
A queer, autistic field guide to kissing as ritual—set and setting, not technique. How to touch without taking, stay without agenda, and let pleasure complete itself. A gift passed on, not a promise claimed.
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Afterglow: A GLP Field Guide to Kissing
A Queer Autistic Transmission on Presence, Pleasure, and Letting the Body Finish
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December 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A queer, autistic field guide to kissing as ritual—set and setting, not technique. How to touch without taking, stay without agenda, and let pleasure complete itself. A gift passed on, not a promise claimed.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
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Writing struggles aren’t behaviour—they’re bottlenecks. This guide helps teachers distinguish structural, mechanical, and integrative barriers so students finally receive the SLP, OT, and classroom supports they needed years before.
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When Writing Breaks Down: A Teacher’s Guide to SLP, OT, and the Spaces Between
Understanding Structural, Mechanical, and Integrative Barriers in Real Classrooms.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Writing struggles aren’t behaviour—they’re bottlenecks. This guide helps teachers distinguish structural, mechanical, and integrative barriers so students finally receive the SLP, OT, and classroom supports they needed years before.
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Today’s episode offers a personal and critical reflection on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), trauma, and memory from an autistic perspective.
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Episode 449: Gestalt Temporality, Trauma, and Coherence After Collapse
Today’s episode offers a personal and critical reflection on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), trauma, and memory from an autistic perspective.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Today’s episode offers a personal and critical reflection on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), trauma, and memory from an autistic perspective.
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A final kiss as blessing, not claim. Queer joy shaped by shared pleasure, whimsy, and care—parting deeply, gratefully, knowing the night was whole and friends were held. Leaving full, already eager to meet again.
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Afterglow: The Leaving Kiss
On Whimsy, Shared Delight, and the Queer Grace of Goodbye.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A final kiss as blessing, not claim. Queer joy shaped by shared pleasure, whimsy, and care—parting deeply, gratefully, knowing the night was whole and friends were held. Leaving full, already eager to meet again.
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An autistic GLP reflects on time collapse, trauma, and writing into coherence after a meltdown. When research refuses to see how we experience memory and temporality, narration becomes survival—and a quiet act of refusal.
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When Time Refuses Sequence: Living Through the Aftermath of Now
Gestalt Memory in a World That Demands Linear Time, Holding Coherence When Time Breaks Open.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
An autistic GLP reflects on time collapse, trauma, and writing into coherence after a meltdown. When research refuses to see how we experience memory and temporality, narration becomes survival—and a quiet act of refusal.
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Today’s episode explores the function of speech for gestalt language processors (GLPs), arguing that talking is primarily a form of memory integrity and maintenance, rather than mere recall or rumination.
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Episode 448: Talking and Memory Integrity for Gestalt Processors
Today’s episode explores the function of speech for gestalt language processors (GLPs), arguing that talking is primarily a form of memory integrity and maintenance, rather than mere recall or ruminat...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Today’s episode explores the function of speech for gestalt language processors (GLPs), arguing that talking is primarily a form of memory integrity and maintenance, rather than mere recall or rumination.
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A kiss can make me come. Not as spectacle, but through attention, safety, and presence. An autistic, queer refusal of escalation—where orgasm arrives fully clothed, without conquest, when the body is finally met.
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Afterglow: When a Kiss Is Enough
On Attention, Safety, and the Queer Power of Staying.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A kiss can make me come. Not as spectacle, but through attention, safety, and presence. An autistic, queer refusal of escalation—where orgasm arrives fully clothed, without conquest, when the body is finally met.
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