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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A night can hinge on a touch so slight it almost doesn’t happen—
a door you only notice because the room exhales and you with it.
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a door you only notice because the room exhales and you with it.
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Afterglow: The Smallest Doors
Two touches, one current—witnessing consent through the smallest doors.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A night can hinge on a touch so slight it almost doesn’t happen—
a door you only notice because the room exhales and you with it.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
a door you only notice because the room exhales and you with it.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
Arizona’s canary sings of collapse: ABA’s boom meets audits, gig work, and a shrinking empire. As billing science unravels, space opens for gestalt, relational speech, and Commons—care beyond control, meaning beyond metrics.
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When Compliance Becomes Unsustainable: Arizona and the Collapse of Behavioural Empire
When control economies implode, the air clears for meaning—language reclaimed, care restored, and the Commons waiting beyond the mine.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Arizona’s canary sings of collapse: ABA’s boom meets audits, gig work, and a shrinking empire. As billing science unravels, space opens for gestalt, relational speech, and Commons—care beyond control, meaning beyond metrics.
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Today’s episode critiques how dominant culture polices marginalised creation, specifically focusing on the intersection of queerness, autism, and disability.
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Episode 413: When Machines Become Mirrors—Autistic Imagination and Gatekeeping
Today’s episode critiques how dominant culture polices marginalised creation, specifically focusing on the intersection of queerness, autism, and disability.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today’s episode critiques how dominant culture polices marginalised creation, specifically focusing on the intersection of queerness, autism, and disability.
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open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
A queer, autistic remembering of San Francisco’s vanished sensual architecture—Afterglow begins where touch becomes language, consent becomes atmosphere, and memory hums like light that refuses to fade.
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Afterglow: The Platform
A testimony of attunement—where queerness, autism, and embodiment converge in the pulse of a city that once remembered how to feel.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A queer, autistic remembering of San Francisco’s vanished sensual architecture—Afterglow begins where touch becomes language, consent becomes atmosphere, and memory hums like light that refuses to fade.
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A dress, a dialogue, a reclamation. When a queer autistic creator designs with AI, the backlash reveals not fear of machines but fear of imagination unbound—of tools that finally listen to those never meant to be heard.
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When Machines Become Mirrors: On Autistic Imagination, Gatekeeping, and The Dress
When autistic imagination meets the machinery of order, what’s revealed isn’t dependency—it’s defiance: the art of creating at one’s own tempo, in a world built to mistranslate wonder as error.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A dress, a dialogue, a reclamation. When a queer autistic creator designs with AI, the backlash reveals not fear of machines but fear of imagination unbound—of tools that finally listen to those never meant to be heard.
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Today’s episode provides excerpts from an essay by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “The Curriculum of Touch,” which serves as a lyrical introduction to the author’s “Afterglow” project, intended as a sensual archive of queer, trans, and autistic memory.
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Episode 412: The Curriculum of Touch—Autism, Attunement, and Sensory Literacy
Today’s episode provides excerpts from an essay by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “The Curriculum of Touch,” which serves as a lyrical introduction to the author’s “Afterglow” project, intended as a sen...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today’s episode provides excerpts from an essay by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “The Curriculum of Touch,” which serves as a lyrical introduction to the author’s “Afterglow” project, intended as a sensual archive of queer, trans, and autistic memory.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
A sensory map of memory and desire—The Club rebuilt through pulse, breath, and attunement. A queer autistic remembering of intimacy, chaos, and consent; the first doorway into Afterglow, where architecture becomes feeling.
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Afterglow: The Club's Layout
A cartography of touch and memory—reconstructing a vanished Tenderloin sanctuary where queerness, attunement, and desire became architecture.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A sensory map of memory and desire—The Club rebuilt through pulse, breath, and attunement. A queer autistic remembering of intimacy, chaos, and consent; the first doorway into Afterglow, where architecture becomes feeling.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
A lyrical bridge between The AutSide and Sensual Residue—where autistic, queer, and trans memory becomes sensual archive, and erotic storytelling becomes pedagogy, preserving the warmth of a vanished San Francisco before it fades.
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The Curriculum of Touch: Autism, Attunement, and What the Studies Never Taught Us
On autistic attunement, queer memory, and the art of telling the body’s truth—Afterglow begins where language once ended.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A lyrical bridge between The AutSide and Sensual Residue—where autistic, queer, and trans memory becomes sensual archive, and erotic storytelling becomes pedagogy, preserving the warmth of a vanished San Francisco before it fades.
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Today’s episode argues against the persistence of the diametric cognition model in autism and psychosis research, which positions the two conditions as cognitive opposites.
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Episode 411: Diametric Cognition—Refusing the Autism-Psychosis Axis
Today’s episode argues against the persistence of the diametric cognition model in autism and psychosis research, which positions the two conditions as cognitive opposites.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Today’s episode argues against the persistence of the diametric cognition model in autism and psychosis research, which positions the two conditions as cognitive opposites.
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OK. So I did a new thing. After much grief and reflection, I’ve brought Sensual Residue—my queer, autistic, sensual archive—home to Substack. A separate space, a shared pulse. Come feel what memory left behind.
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sensualresidue.substack.com
Sensual Residue | Jaime Hoerricks, PhD | Substack
Sensual Residue is a sanctuary of queer memory and embodied writing—where touch, time, and language entwine to recall the tenderness the world once knew. Click to read Sensual Residue, by Jaime Hoerri...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
OK. So I did a new thing. After much grief and reflection, I’ve brought Sensual Residue—my queer, autistic, sensual archive—home to Substack. A separate space, a shared pulse. Come feel what memory left behind.
sensualresidue.substack.com
sensualresidue.substack.com
A footnote led me into the Cambridge axis again: autism vs psychosis, elegance over truth. I trace how this binary persists through citation, AI, and policy, and refuse it. We are not opposites. We deserve models built with us, not over us.
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Axis Worship and Alien Minds: How Diametric Cognition Slipped into the Canon, and Why AI Keeps Handing It Back
If my interior life disqualifies me from autism in your model, the problem is not my life—it’s your model.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A footnote led me into the Cambridge axis again: autism vs psychosis, elegance over truth. I trace how this binary persists through citation, AI, and policy, and refuse it. We are not opposites. We deserve models built with us, not over us.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Today’s episode critiques the modern “scientific study” of autism, asserting that it has transformed autistic individuals into a mere dataset subject to extraction rather than being treated as people.
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Episode 410: The Second Lexicographer—Autism as Dataset
Today’s episode critiques the modern “scientific study” of autism, asserting that it has transformed autistic individuals into a mere dataset subject to extraction rather than being treated as people.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Today’s episode critiques the modern “scientific study” of autism, asserting that it has transformed autistic individuals into a mere dataset subject to extraction rather than being treated as people.
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A new kind of outsider studies autistic lives not with curiosity but with code, treating us as data, not people. This essay examines how autism became open terrain for extraction and calls for research built with us, not on us.
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The Second Lexicographer: When Autism Becomes a Dataset Instead of a People
When autism becomes dataset, consent becomes history — a call to reclaim our minds from models built without us.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A new kind of outsider studies autistic lives not with curiosity but with code, treating us as data, not people. This essay examines how autism became open terrain for extraction and calls for research built with us, not on us.
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Today’s episode explores the journey of self-discovery and embodiment as an Autistic trans woman.
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Episode 409: Vision First, Language After—Autistic Praxis
Today’s episode explores the journey of self-discovery and embodiment as an Autistic trans woman.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Today’s episode explores the journey of self-discovery and embodiment as an Autistic trans woman.
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A dress imagined before it existed. Vision first, language after. A GLP journey of becoming—slow, precise, joyful. Technology as scaffolding, not spectacle. Not costume, but arrival. She enters, and this time, she stays.
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Vision First, Language After: Rendering as Autistic Praxis
AI as scaffold for a future self already known.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A dress imagined before it existed. Vision first, language after. A GLP journey of becoming—slow, precise, joyful. Technology as scaffolding, not spectacle. Not costume, but arrival. She enters, and this time, she stays.
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Today’s episode presents a critical comparison between two distinct approaches to autism research, symbolised by two institutions located near Cambridge, England.
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Episode 408: Two Roads—Listening and Categorising Autistic Life
Today’s episode presents a critical comparison between two distinct approaches to autism research, symbolised by two institutions located near Cambridge, England.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today’s episode presents a critical comparison between two distinct approaches to autism research, symbolised by two institutions located near Cambridge, England.
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Two research centres sit a short drive apart, yet worlds away in how they see autistic life. One listens. One categorises. The future belongs to the places where we are partners in understanding, not puzzles to decode.
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Two Roads Through the Same Countryside: How GRRAND and the Autism Research Centre See Us, and What That Means for Autistic Life
A journey between two institutions and two futures for autistic research: one built on listening and partnership, the other on categorising minds from a distance.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Two research centres sit a short drive apart, yet worlds away in how they see autistic life. One listens. One categorises. The future belongs to the places where we are partners in understanding, not puzzles to decode.
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open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Today’s episode traces a journey of self-discovery at the intersection of gender identity (transfemme), neurodivergence (AuDHD), and language processing (GLP).
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Episode 407: Becoming Whole—Poetic Language, Gender, and Neurodivergence
Today’s episode traces a journey of self-discovery at the intersection of gender identity (transfemme), neurodivergence (AuDHD), and language processing (GLP).
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November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today’s episode traces a journey of self-discovery at the intersection of gender identity (transfemme), neurodivergence (AuDHD), and language processing (GLP).
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A lyrical essay tracing my journey from analytic silence to poetic aliveness—where language, gender, and neurodivergence converge. A story of becoming whole: transfemme, AuDHD, GLP—alive in the language that finally speaks me.
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I Didn’t Hate Being 'Him'—But I’m Loving Being Me
The Poetic Bodymind: Becoming She, Becoming Whole
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November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A lyrical essay tracing my journey from analytic silence to poetic aliveness—where language, gender, and neurodivergence converge. A story of becoming whole: transfemme, AuDHD, GLP—alive in the language that finally speaks me.
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Today’s episode reflects on the politics of recognition within academic research, particularly concerning practitioner-led work on gestalt language processing.
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Episode 406: Published Is Published—Citation Politics and Visible Evidence
Today’s episode reflects on the politics of recognition within academic research, particularly concerning practitioner-led work on gestalt language processing.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Today’s episode reflects on the politics of recognition within academic research, particularly concerning practitioner-led work on gestalt language processing.
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When Marge Blanc wrote to remind me that the research I’d imagined had already been done, it became clear—the evidence was never missing. It was simply written where the empire chose not to read.
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Published Is Published: On the Visibility of Evidence and the Politics of Citation
A reflection on the visibility of practitioner research, and what it means to say that published is published.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
When Marge Blanc wrote to remind me that the research I’d imagined had already been done, it became clear—the evidence was never missing. It was simply written where the empire chose not to read.
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Today’s episode offers a critical examination of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI).
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Episode 405: Autism—Cause, Control, and the Theology of Erasure
Today’s episode offers a critical examination of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI).
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November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Today’s episode offers a critical examination of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI).
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A dark meditation on the NIH’s Autism Data Science Initiative—tracing how the search for “cause” becomes a quiet theology of erasure, where data replaces mercy and knowing becomes the mechanism by which difference disappears.
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Autism: To Know the Cause Is to Make It Optional
The Cartography of Erasure: Reading the NIH Autism Data Science Initiative as Continuation of T4
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November 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A dark meditation on the NIH’s Autism Data Science Initiative—tracing how the search for “cause” becomes a quiet theology of erasure, where data replaces mercy and knowing becomes the mechanism by which difference disappears.
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open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Today’s episode looks at autistic temporality and its implications for connection, safety, and community. It explores how autistic time is non-linear and “recursive,” where memory functions as “presence distributed through time” rather than a sequential past.
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Episode 404: The Archive of Joy—Autistic Time and Light
Today’s episode serves as a deep meditation on autistic temporality and its implications for connection, safety, and community.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Today’s episode looks at autistic temporality and its implications for connection, safety, and community. It explores how autistic time is non-linear and “recursive,” where memory functions as “presence distributed through time” rather than a sequential past.
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open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
A meditation on autistic time, safety, and coherence—where memory moves like light, joy becomes method, and every act of tenderness folds the timeline. We are the afterglow—the world remembering how to feel itself whole.
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The Archive of Joy: On Autistic Time and the Memory of Light
On time, tenderness, and the social body.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A meditation on autistic time, safety, and coherence—where memory moves like light, joy becomes method, and every act of tenderness folds the timeline. We are the afterglow—the world remembering how to feel itself whole.
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