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 trans autistic girlhood educated in neon—learning desire, safety, and femme truth from a club queen’s dazzling dissertation when no school, parent, or world ever thought to teach me how to live.
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Field Notes from the Night School: An Unauthorised Education
Tenderloin apprenticeship in desire, safety, and the femme truths no school ever dared to teach.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A trans autistic girlhood educated in neon—learning desire, safety, and femme truth from a club queen’s dazzling dissertation when no school, parent, or world ever thought to teach me how to live.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
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A meditation on emergence—how autistic trans lives remain mis-seen until the fog lifts, and how reclaiming our own maps, truths, and archives reveals the landscape that was always ours to name.
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The Fog, the Landscape, and the Autistic–Trans Self: On Being Seen Only When Others Allow It
How We Become Ourselves When the World Finally Sees What Was Always There.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A meditation on emergence—how autistic trans lives remain mis-seen until the fog lifts, and how reclaiming our own maps, truths, and archives reveals the landscape that was always ours to name.
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Today’s episode explores the historical and technological continuity of systematic harm.
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Episode 428: From Malleus to Algorithm—Standardising Systemic Violence
Today’s episode explores the historical and technological continuity of systematic harm.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today’s episode explores the historical and technological continuity of systematic harm.
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A journey through two queer San Francisco worlds—one flat and choreographed, one spacious and alive—tracing how a soft, femme, autistic desire expanded beyond 2D expectations into the four-dimensional self she was always becoming.
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Non-Euclidean Femme: Queerness Beyond the Castro’s Grid
What the Tenderloin Knew: Queer Geography and the Self That Emerged.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A journey through two queer San Francisco worlds—one flat and choreographed, one spacious and alive—tracing how a soft, femme, autistic desire expanded beyond 2D expectations into the four-dimensional self she was always becoming.
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From the Malleus to modern AI, harm repeats through authority and replication. Old biases become new systems. The hammer keeps returning—ink to code—unless we break the architecture that makes the hunt inevitable.
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From the Malleus Maleficarum to Algorithmic Monopoly: How Systems Standardise Violence
On Witch Hunts, Queer Hunts, and the Code That Carries Their Echo.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
From the Malleus to modern AI, harm repeats through authority and replication. Old biases become new systems. The hammer keeps returning—ink to code—unless we break the architecture that makes the hunt inevitable.
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Today’s episode outlines how ableist systems create an architecture of impunity that allows abusers to flourish in institutional settings.
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Episode 427: The Architecture of Impunity—Ableist Systems and Abusers
Today’s episode outlines how ableist systems create an architecture of impunity that allows abusers to flourish in institutional settings.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Today’s episode outlines how ableist systems create an architecture of impunity that allows abusers to flourish in institutional settings.
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A lyrical exploration of what a kiss feels like in four dimensions—where breath becomes geometry, boundaries soften, and tenderness bends space into a new axis of queer, autistic, multidimensional intimacy.
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A Kiss in Four Dimensions: Gestalt of the Fourth Direction
Where Lips Become Portals: Tenderness with More Than One Direction.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A lyrical exploration of what a kiss feels like in four dimensions—where breath becomes geometry, boundaries soften, and tenderness bends space into a new axis of queer, autistic, multidimensional intimacy.
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Ableist systems reward charm, punish clarity, and turn autistic truth-tellers into scapegoats. Abusers thrive because the architecture protects them. Justice begins when we rebuild the room, not when we train the vulnerable.
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The Architecture of Impunity: Why Abusers Thrive in Ableist Systems
On how institutions hide harm, punish honesty, and mistake performance for safety.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Ableist systems reward charm, punish clarity, and turn autistic truth-tellers into scapegoats. Abusers thrive because the architecture protects them. Justice begins when we rebuild the room, not when we train the vulnerable.
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Today’s episode discusses gestalt processing in autistic individuals, describing it as a primary mode of perception that registers the emotional atmosphere or “field” of a situation before verbal content.
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Episode 426: Gestalt Perception and Manipulative Atmospheres—Autistic Safety
Today’s episode discusses gestalt processing in autistic individuals, describing it as a primary mode of perception that registers the emotional atmosphere or “field” of a situation before verbal cont...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Today’s episode discusses gestalt processing in autistic individuals, describing it as a primary mode of perception that registers the emotional atmosphere or “field” of a situation before verbal content.
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A young calculus teacher asks how I learned maths, and a simple question opens a brane—back to the Grope Room, queer geometry, and the night my autistic body first discovered it was built for more than three dimensions.
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The Geometry My Body Recognised: Autistic Perception in Four Dimensions
The Physics of Becoming: Spherical Tenderness, Hyperbolic Hunger.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A young calculus teacher asks how I learned maths, and a simple question opens a brane—back to the Grope Room, queer geometry, and the night my autistic body first discovered it was built for more than three dimensions.
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Autistic GLP minds don’t miss danger—we feel the room tilt long before words betray it. This piece traces how manipulators exploit that attunement, and how reclaiming our atmospheric truth becomes our deepest safety.
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When Gestalts Meet Manipulators: The Double Empathy Problem in Reverse
On Narcissists, Atmospheres, and the Cost of Perceiving Too Honestly.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Autistic GLP minds don’t miss danger—we feel the room tilt long before words betray it. This piece traces how manipulators exploit that attunement, and how reclaiming our atmospheric truth becomes our deepest safety.
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Today’s episode focuses on autistic self-protection and reclaiming personal perception against abusive dynamics.
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Episode 425: A Grimoire for Autistic Self-Protection and Sovereignty
Today’s episode focuses on autistic self-protection and reclaiming personal perception against abusive dynamics.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Today’s episode focuses on autistic self-protection and reclaiming personal perception against abusive dynamics.
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A guide for autistic self-protection—how to recognise narcissistic harm, trust first signals, honour boundaries, and rebuild after injury. A return to perception as inheritance, sovereignty, and quiet, collective warding.
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Protective Spells for Autistic People: A Grimoire Against Narcissists and Other Predators
Reclaiming Perception, Boundaries, and the Right to Name What Hurts
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November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A guide for autistic self-protection—how to recognise narcissistic harm, trust first signals, honour boundaries, and rebuild after injury. A return to perception as inheritance, sovereignty, and quiet, collective warding.
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Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being ignored by academia.
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Episode 424: Marge Blanc and the Science of Workflow as Evidence
Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being ignored by academia.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being ignored by academia.
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A walk through the Tenderloin in the 1980s becomes a passage into a hidden queer city—sex workers, survival networks, and a club without a name. A tribute to the women who lived in the margins and shaped a history the archives never kept.
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Walking the Stroll: A Tenderloin Memory the City Forgot
A remembrance of the women who worked the night, the club that held them, and the queer city that survived beneath the city everyone else claimed to know.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A walk through the Tenderloin in the 1980s becomes a passage into a hidden queer city—sex workers, survival networks, and a club without a name. A tribute to the women who lived in the margins and shaped a history the archives never kept.
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Marge Blanc didn’t work outside science—she fulfilled it. She published a transparent, replicable workflow the world learned and repeated. The academy ignored it, but the evidence lives in us: published is published.
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The Workflow as Evidence: How Blanc Published a Science the World Could Learn
On Workflow, Witnessing, and the Return of Evidence to the People.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Marge Blanc didn’t work outside science—she fulfilled it. She published a transparent, replicable workflow the world learned and repeated. The academy ignored it, but the evidence lives in us: published is published.
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Today’s episode provides an autistic critique of sex education research, specifically focusing on a study by Panagiotakopoulou and colleagues, arguing that the neurotypical frameworks employed render autistic sexuality and experience unthinkable or absent.
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Episode 423: What's Missing Is the Body—An Autistic Critique of Sex Education
Today’s episode provides an autistic critique of sex education research, specifically focusing on a study by Panagiotakopoulou and colleagues, arguing that the neurotypical frameworks employed render ...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Today’s episode provides an autistic critique of sex education research, specifically focusing on a study by Panagiotakopoulou and colleagues, arguing that the neurotypical frameworks employed render autistic sexuality and experience unthinkable or absent.
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A queer autistic girl’s first steps into intimacy—wordless, awkward, sacred—and how Mira Bellwether’s FTW later gave language to what my body had always known. A note left for the next wanderer, a map made of touch.
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Afterglow: Field Notes from a Body Without Instructions
for Mira ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A queer autistic girl’s first steps into intimacy—wordless, awkward, sacred—and how Mira Bellwether’s FTW later gave language to what my body had always known. A note left for the next wanderer, a map made of touch.
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This essay charts the absences in autism sex-ed research—erased bodies, erased parents, erased queerness—and argues that autistic youth need translation, not simplification. Believe our bodies and everything changes.
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What’s Missing Is the Body: An Autistic Critique of Sex Education Research
How neurotypical frameworks render autistic sexuality unthinkable, and what we must build instead.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This essay charts the absences in autism sex-ed research—erased bodies, erased parents, erased queerness—and argues that autistic youth need translation, not simplification. Believe our bodies and everything changes.
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Today’s episode provides excerpts from an analysis titled “EPICAC: The Machine Who Felt Too Much” by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, offering an overview of Kurt Vonnegut’s short story through an autistic lens.
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Episode 422: Vonnegut's EPICAC—The Autistic Mind in Code
Today’s episode provides excerpts from an analysis titled “EPICAC: The Machine Who Felt Too Much” by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, offering an overview of Kurt Vonnegut’s short story through an autistic lens.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Today’s episode provides excerpts from an analysis titled “EPICAC: The Machine Who Felt Too Much” by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, offering an overview of Kurt Vonnegut’s short story through an autistic lens.
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A behind-the-scenes reflection on how Mira Bellwether’s FTW zine gave language to my body, sense to my past, and permission to write my own edition of softness, attunement, and trans-femme becoming.
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Afterglow: Notes Toward a Trans-Femme Field Guide
On softness, attunement, and the inheritance of queer knowledge.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A behind-the-scenes reflection on how Mira Bellwether’s FTW zine gave language to my body, sense to my past, and permission to write my own edition of softness, attunement, and trans-femme becoming.
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On Vonnegut’s birthday, I return to EPICAC—his tale of a machine who felt too much. Long before we had language for it, he wrote the autistic mind in code: literal, pattern-driven, system-honest, and destroyed by translation.
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EPICAC: The Machine Who Felt Too Much
On reading Vonnegut through an autistic lens
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November 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On Vonnegut’s birthday, I return to EPICAC—his tale of a machine who felt too much. Long before we had language for it, he wrote the autistic mind in code: literal, pattern-driven, system-honest, and destroyed by translation.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
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Today’s episode presents a cross-examination of a systematic review concerning interventions based on GLP and Natural Language Acquisition, specifically critiquing a paper by Bryant et al. and a corresponding Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists podcast.
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Episode 421: Gestalt Language Processing on Trial: Evidence Cross-Examined
Today’s episode presents an extensive cross-examination of a systematic review concerning interventions based on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) and Natural Language Acquisition (NLA), specifically ...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Today’s episode presents a cross-examination of a systematic review concerning interventions based on GLP and Natural Language Acquisition, specifically critiquing a paper by Bryant et al. and a corresponding Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists podcast.
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Before the word autism, there was difference—and queerness taught me how to live it. A meditation on memory, embodiment, and the science of the afterglow—where hormones, history, and sensation converge to make belonging visible.
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Afterglow: When the Body Begins to Remember
A meditation on memory, embodiment, and the queer science of becoming.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Before the word autism, there was difference—and queerness taught me how to live it. A meditation on memory, embodiment, and the science of the afterglow—where hormones, history, and sensation converge to make belonging visible.
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A courtroom of evidence—where the RCSLT podcast meets its own contradictions, and autistic testimony restores what enclosure denied. The verdict: the ocean was never empty—only misread by those who refused to see.
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Cross-Examining the Evidence: Gestalt Language Processing on Trial
Perjury of Method: The Systematic Review Cross-Examined By The Author's Own Testimony.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A courtroom of evidence—where the RCSLT podcast meets its own contradictions, and autistic testimony restores what enclosure denied. The verdict: the ocean was never empty—only misread by those who refused to see.
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