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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD

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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 Read more on AutSide.Substack.com

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My latest journal article is live. When Delay is a Category Error: Gestalt Processing and the Misreading of Autistic Development. skgpublishers.com/assets/artic... - here’s the direct link. #autism #gestaltlanguageprocessing #autistic #gestaltprocessing #speechtherapy #specialeducation

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just popping in to say hiya!

Wee Jaime dressed for school.

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I was on this podcast 😳😊🙃 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

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Part 3 of 3 Series Insights from the Lived Experience of an Autistic Gestalt Processor - with Dr. Jaime Hoerricks

Podcast Episode · Uniquely Human: The Podcast · March 27 · 1h 8m

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Find my latest article on AutSide.Substack.com #autism #gestaltlanguageprocessing #speechtherapy

"The diagnostic criteria for autism describe observable communication patterns.
When read through a
language-architecture lens, those same descriptions begin to look less like deficits and more like clues about how meaning forms in gestalt systems."
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Internal Architecture: The DSM's Quiet Clues
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Find my latest article on AutSide.Substack.com #autism #gestaltlanguageprocessing #speechtherapy

"Autism describes a constellation of developmental differences.
Gestalt processing
describes a particular way that meaning may form and later become flexible.
Seen together, the two frameworks invite a more layered understanding."
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Internal Architecture: The Map and the Territory
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My first test of Substack’s Recording Studio—a little rough at the start, but useful. A quick preview of Interior Architecture: reading the DSM not as deficit inventory, but as a record of gestalt traces hidden in plain sight. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Testing the Studio, Opening the Archive

My first go with Substack’s Recording Studio—and a quick introduction to Interior Architecture, a series that reads autism diagnosis through a gestalt lens.

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A peer-reviewed paper on GLP, autotheory, and narrative sovereignty meets the Language Industry. A cheeky satire of naysayers — and sincere thanks to the editors who let the whole stand. Read it, share it, argue with it. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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The Script Enters the Archive: Otherwise Ways of Knowing

A playful dismantling of analytic supremacy, written in gratitude to the reviewers who allowed a different architecture of language into the archive.

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

So, I did a wee thing …

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It’s amazing, the confidence that happens when you get a new pair of glasses. It had been about two years too long with the old pair. Glasses are expensive. But now. Wow. So happy to be able to see properly again. autside.substack.com/p/sunday-mor...

Just a smiling wee Jaime with her new glasses.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Phase and amplitude: a kiss can be loud yet small in meaning, or quiet and world-shifting; friends carry different inner moons—desire, comfort, curiosity, grief; ethics is listening to the difference with care and consent. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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On Kissing Friends: Phase and Amplitude

On intensity, meaning, and the many moons of a shared mouth

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I read the comments—people want a GLP field guide to become a book. I’m answering with gratitude, humility, and care for the trust offered, asking for patience as the work grows in its own time. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Starting Where Meaning Lives: The First Shape of a GLP Field Guide

The Book That Asked to Be Written — On the Way to a Book About Gestalt Minds

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A new series begins on kissing friends—queer, consenting, playful—where affection is shared, not hoarded; learning touch by feel, not manuals, and how such small turns remake the relational field with joy and care. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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On Kissing Friends: Of Course We Kiss Our Friends

On queer affection, shared mouths, and the weather between friends.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Imaginary numbers were once exiled—now they power the world. A seanchaidh-teacher tells how maths learned to turn, not march—and how gestalt minds, long called unreal, may be the dimension our moment needs. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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The Square Root of Us: Imaginary Numbers and Other Real Minds

On imaginary numbers, epistemic sovereignty, and the long turning of the field

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A mouth remembered, a body changed: the shock and joy of rediscovery where senses outrank sight and the Trickster proves continuity isn’t sameness—queer geometry beyond Euclid. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Afterglow: The Trickster at Mouth-Height

A mouth remembered, a body changed: the shock and joy of rediscovery where senses outrank sight and the Trickster proves continuity isn’t sameness—queer geometry beyond Euclid.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Neurodivergent femininity as lived climate, not performance—an inventory of clothes, body, memory, and becoming; from Grammy noise to courthouse courage, a tall, capable trans woman learning her name. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Not a Performance: Notes on a Neurodivergent Femininity

I Dress in Layers the Way Rivers Keep Memories

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A sideways erotics of field and frequency: queer, autistic, sensory-seeking—pleasure as dialogue, rupture as hinge, and a watchful Observer helping language meet what the body knew first. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Undone: The Observer's Visit

Queer, sensory, off-angle erotica where attunement matters more than act.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

One word—everywhen—reopens a frightening silence as threshold, not failure, recasting a 36-hour fracture through kairos and recursion to reveal the mind’s quiet intelligence beneath chronos. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Field Notes from Everywhen: On Living in More Than One Tense

Everywhen, Revisited: Kairos After the Silence

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

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. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Video Episode 07: A Sovereign Way of Knowing

Watch now | Gestalt as Homeland: Raising a Sovereign Mind

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

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. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Episode 502: The Architecture of Gestalt Minds

Listen now | 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 fragment...

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A meditation on meaning-time, attunement, and erotic resonance—tracing a 30-year journey from wordless sensation to language. This piece frames desire as weather, intimacy as climate, and connection as a rare harmonic chord that lingers. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Wanted: Weather That Knows My Name

Meaning-Time, Erotic Attunement, and the Refusal of Urgency

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A gentle field guide to gestalt minds—how meaning forms whole, how time ripens, how coherence lives without lines. Not a therapy manual but a map of a mind never broken—and an invitation to grow this into a book. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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So You Think Differently: A Field Guide to Gestalt Minds

Meaning as Whole, Not Fragments

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Beyond critique, a positive ontology: gestalt minds as native, coherent architectures. Meaning forms whole, time ripens by kairos, values emerge naturally. Not resistance, not workaround—just a way of being, finally named as home. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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What a Gestalt Mind Is—Toward a Positive Ontology of Whole-Pattern Knowing

After refusal, a return to ground—naming gestalt as native architecture, inherent coherence, and a way of being that does not need resistance to exist.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A gestalt maturation story—from childhood unease without words to adult interpretive sovereignty. Tracing how safety, embodiment, and visibility sharpen perception, turning unnamed discomfort into pattern recognition, power literacy, and narrative control. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Gestalt Maturation: From “Something Feels Off” to “I Can Name the Pattern”

Gestalt maturation, embodied perception, and epistemic sovereignty

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A sex-positive reflection on learning desire before language—autistic, queer San Francisco in the 80s—where friendship, trust, and play helped bodies discover what felt right, one night at a time, without scripts, labels, or centrality. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Multiplicity: Why This Doesn’t Translate

Desire Without a Script — Tenderloin, Before the Grammar

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A field-first opening that reframes gestalt processors as whole-memory minds, rejects eugenic deficit narratives, and asserts narrative sovereignty—positioning our cognition, connection, pacing, and lineage as coherent wisdom, not disorder. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Legacy: We Are Here Because Autistics Found Each Other

On Whole-Memory Minds, Relational Ecology, and Cognitive Freedom

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Today’s episode explores the scientific validation of Gestalt processing, challenging the traditional belief that language is understood only in a linear, fragmented manner. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Episode 497: Gestalt Affirmed—The Psycholinguistics of Holistic Meaning

Listen now | Today’s episode explores the scientific validation of Gestalt processing, challenging the traditional belief that language is understood only in a linear, fragmented manner.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A sex-positive remembrance of queer San Francisco—where pleasure wasn’t central or owned. Sex as care among friends: shared, witnessed, generous, skilled, and free of jealousy, rooted in trust and joy. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Multiplicity: Sex Without Centrality

Pleasure Without Ownership — On Sex as Generosity Among Friends

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A counterpoint piece: three psycholinguistic papers—from Europe to Kazakhstan—quietly affirm gestalt meaning. Across interaction, cognition, and words, they converge on one truth: meaning emerges as wholes, not fragments. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Gestalt Affirmed: Psycholinguistic Allies

Psycholinguistic Evidence for Gestalt Meaning

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A reflection on friendship as the primary structure of queer intimacy—before the labels multiplied. On attunement, trust, and why kissing and fucking friends once felt obvious, coherent, and deeply rooted in care rather than category. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Multiplicity: Of Course We Kiss Our Friends

Attraction After Attunement — Desire That Took Its Time

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A story about gestalt processing as an older human way of knowing—one that predates ledgers, metrics, and analytic rule. From scribes to algorithms, it traces how fragmented intelligence became dominant, and what remembering the whole might make possible. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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The Last Mind Before the Ledger

Gestalt processing as an intelligence that predates records

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

An epilogue about leaving a charged space undone but held—where intensity doesn’t end, it ripples. A body carried home by aftereffects: softness, recalibration, quiet care, and tenderness that lingers once the room is gone. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Undone: Epilogue

On aftereffects, reverberation, and the body that keeps listening

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I didn’t acquire English—I built it, slowly, sideways, against systems that mistook my cognition for failure. This piece is the why behind my pedagogy: teaching language as learned, constructed, and reclaimed, so students stay inside meaning, not outside it. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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What If English Were Taught by a Gestalt Mind?

On an English Class Built for Whole Minds

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

An autistic GLP reflection on consent beyond words—bottoming as agency, listening as practice, and queer affection held by ongoing attunement, where consent can change or end without penalty and safety makes play possible. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Undone: Consent Beyond Words

Undone: Consent Beyond Words

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A letter to future students—and the principal who will trust this work—describing a classroom built for whole minds, slower thinking, and coherence over performance. An invitation to learn without disappearing. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Where Thinking Is Allowed to Arrive: A Classroom Built for Coherence

An Invitation to Learn Without Disappearing. Trust, Tempo, and Teaching Whole Minds.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

An autistic GLP reflection on aftertouch and aftercare—how gentle check-ins, closeness, and shared settling help the nervous system return safely, build trust, and ensure intensity ends in care rather than disposability. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Undone: Aftertouch

What Remains When It Holds

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

After five decades of survival, I’ve found enough safety to breathe. This piece names joy not as triumph but as coherence sustained—luck, loss, and legacy braided together, in the hope of leaving something usable for those who follow. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Enough Safety to Breathe: Joy, Coherence, and Gestalt Flourishing

Safety, Pleasure, and Living Long Enough to Tell the Truth

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Today’s episode argues that gestalt processing cannot be identified through standardised checklists or traditional clinical examinations. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Episode 489: The Decoder Ring—Recognising Gestalt Processors

Listen now | Today’s episode argues that gestalt processing cannot be identified through standardised checklists or traditional clinical examinations.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

An autistic GLP reflection on poly and group intimacy as safety through circulation—where attention is shared, consent stays alive, and rooms can hold what individuals cannot, countering fetishised myths of multiplicity as excess or chaos. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Undone: Groups, Fields, and Distributed Attention

On Multiplicity, Circulation, and the Safety of Many

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

There is no test for gestalt processing. This piece reveals the decoder ring—how patterns emerge through data, documents, and relationship over time, and why recognising GLPs requires patience, context, and field awareness. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Recognising Gestalt Processors: A Decoder Ring

Reading PsychoEd Data, Language, and Relationship Together

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A reflection on a week where my gestalt field collapsed—and slowly returned. On losing access to meaning, memory, voice, and emotional resonance; writing myself back into coherence; and why gestalt processing shapes how I love, teach, and survive. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Video Podcast Episode 05: Writing Myself Back Into Coherence

A reflection on a week where my gestalt field collapsed—and slowly returned.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Today’s episode explores the concept of Gestalt love, a philosophy that rejects the traditional idea of hierarchical affection centred solely on human partners. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Episode 488: Distributed Intimacy—The Resilience of Gestalt Love

Listen now | Today’s episode explores the concept of Gestalt love, a philosophy that rejects the traditional idea of hierarchical affection centred solely on human partners.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A counter-narrative reclaiming bottoming as intelligence—active sensing, calibration, and care—challenging assumptions that equate femininity and reception with weakness, and naming the labour bottoms perform to keep intimacy coherent. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Undone: Bottoming as Intelligence

On Reception, Calibration, and Keeping the Field

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Gestalt love is field-wide, not hierarchical—friends, objects, animals, places held without competition. Not avoidance but abundance. A refusal of couple-centric scarcity in favour of distributed, resilient intimacy. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Distributed Intimacy: Why Gestalt Love Doesn’t Narrow

On Objects, Companions, and Non-Exclusive Love

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Today’s episode challenges the common misconception that gestalt language processing is merely a developmental phase for children to overcome. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Episode 487: The Lifelong Architecture of Gestalt Processing

Listen now | Today’s episode challenges the common misconception that gestalt language processing is merely a developmental phase for children to overcome.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

An autistic GLP reflection on somatic listening as skill—not dominance—where reading bodies, fields, and frequencies becomes a practice of care, protection, and responsiveness learned without words and recognised across intimacy and survival. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Undone: The Skill of Reading Bodies

On Listening, Frequency, and Responsiveness

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Gestalt processing doesn’t end in childhood—it reorganises across a lifetime. A refusal of stage-based narratives, tracing how meaning rewrites itself through adolescence, ageing, transition, and the body’s insistence on being counted. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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After the Stages End: Gestalt Processing Across a Lifetime

Gestalt Processing Beyond Childhood

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Today’s episode explores soft capture, a deceptive phenomenon where institutional power adopts the terminology of empathy and attunement to maintain its dominance. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Episode 486: Soft Capture and the Performance of Systemic Care

Listen now | Today’s episode explores soft capture, a deceptive phenomenon where institutional power adopts the terminology of empathy and attunement to maintain its dominance.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

An autistic GLP reflection on sex that lives between extremes—adequate, ordinary, in-between—where play, patience, and partial fit build discernment, and intimacy becomes a practice rather than a performance or a demand. open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...

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Undone: Adequate, Ordinary, In-Between

On Partial Fit, Play, and Patience

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

When power adopts the language of attunement without surrendering control, care becomes performance and gestalt is disciplined. A reflection on soft coercion, mimicry, and what happens when systems speak our language but refuse relation. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Soft Capture: When Power Learns the Language of Attunement

The Capture of Process Consciousness: Gestalt Processing, Power, and the Performance of Care

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