My latest journal article is live. When Delay is a Category Error: Gestalt Processing and the Misreading of Autistic Development.
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Posts by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
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"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." Jaime Hoerricks, PhD Internal Architecture: The DSM's Quiet Clues AUTSIDE.SUBSTACK.COM
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"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." Jaime Hoerricks, PhD Internal Architecture: The Map and the Territory AUTSIDE.SUBSTACK.COM
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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.
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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.
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journals.sagepub.com Sage Journals Menu 山 Search Access g Cart Neurodiversity Journal indexing and metrics Open access Research article First published online February 26, 2026 Request permissions G The Script is Not the Silence: Autotheory of a GLP Mind in a Pathologized World Jaime Hoerricks D M View all authors and affiliations All Articles https://doi.org/10.1177/27546330261427273 = Contents L PDF/EPUB ••• More Abstract This hybrid autotheoretical essay explores Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) as a form of urodivergent authorship, relational knowing, resistance to neuronormative containment. TA + 17 •••
So, I did a wee thing …
Just a smiling wee Jaime with her new glasses.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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