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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
@jaimehoerricks.bsky.social
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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 · Jan 10
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Beyond the Series: The Ongoing Reflections of an Autistic Trans Woman in Harmony with Her Identity
Being a gestalt processor can often complicate communications.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 7h
Today is release day for my latest book from Lived Places Publishing - Decolonising Language Education. So happy to finally be able to share this with you all.

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Decolonising Language Education
How can educators transform language education to empower multilingual and neurodiverse learners while respecting their identities? Jaime Hoerricks challenges the colonial mindset that promotes "Stand...
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 16h
Hurrah!
Bruno, G. et al (2025)Decolonizing autism research Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being & doing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Prioritize Indigenous & Autistic co/leadership
Develop framewks of ethical space & relational accountability
Foster cross-cultural & interdisc collab
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 17h
Cambridge calls it fairness; we call it fidelity. This new “moral foundations” study from the Baron-Cohen cohort isn’t science—it’s soft eugenics in academic dress. Simon says be fair. We are—but not in their language.

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Refusing Their Lexicon: How Cambridge’s Autism Research Retools Fairness, Care, and Control
Autism, morality, and the quiet machinery of control.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 18h
Today’s episode critically reviews a new Nature study, led by researchers associated with Cambridge and Simon Baron-Cohen, which proposes two polygenic factors for autism based on the age of diagnosis.

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Episode 381: Autism's Two Shadows—Gatekeeping and Genetics
Today’s episode critically reviews a new Nature study, led by researchers associated with Cambridge and Simon Baron-Cohen, which proposes two polygenic factors for autism based on the age of diagnosis...
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 1d
Find me in the alt text
Alt text: A close-up photo of an open book showing a passage from So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams. The dialogue features Arthur and Ford discussing a planet where the leaders are lizards and the people, who hate the lizards, still vote for them. Ford explains that it’s a democracy, but people keep voting for lizards because otherwise “the wrong lizard might get in.” The page number 597 appears at the top right. Commentary: They’ve always been lizards, haven’t they? Different colours, different slogans, same cold scales. Watching them trade soundbites about people like me—autistic, trans, inconvenient—I see the same choreography Ford described: a performance of opposition masking total consensus. One side frames me as threat, the other as symbol, both feeding on the spectacle of my existence. It doesn’t matter which lizard wins; the outcome is prewritten in the machinery that keeps them on the podium and us under the lights. Every election season feels like déjà vu—another round of promises to protect or to purge, neither of which ever meant care. They call it democracy, but to me it feels more like a rotating spotlight trained on the same cage.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 1d
Cambridge dresses old prejudice in genetic clothing—calling the late-diagnosed autistic “co-morbid,” not “core.” But we were never invisible, only unseen. Simon says divide; we say we were whole all along.

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Simon Says: Two Shadows of Autism
How Cambridge’s new “two-factor” autism study repackages exclusion as genetics—and turns late-diagnosed women’s hard-won recognition into a fresh round of erasure.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 1d
Today’s episode presents a powerful argument challenging the prevailing narrative that autistic people lack empathy.

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Episode 380: Autistic Empathy, Stone-Borne Continuity, and the Counter-Canon
Today’s episode presents a powerful argument challenging the prevailing narrative that autistic people lack empathy.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 2d
Autistic empathy was never absent—it was stolen, misread, weaponised. From Stone-Borne patience to lion defiance, this counter-canon refuses deficit and declares our continuity, our after.

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The 'After' They Cannot Imagine: Autism, Empathy, and the Counter-Canon
Not Deficit but Continuity: An Autistic Response to Philosophy’s Theft
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 2d
Today’s episode provides a critical analysis of how the speech patterns of GLPs, particularly those who are AuDHD, are frequently misread as deficits rather than a complete form of communication, focusing specifically on expressions of morality and justification.

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Episode 379: The Morality of Scripts—Justice Spoken in Fragments
Today’s episode provides a critical analysis of how the speech patterns of Gestalt Language Processors (GLPs), particularly those who are AuDHD, are frequently misread as deficits rather than a comple...
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 3d
For GLPs, fragments aren’t deficits but full containers of meaning—justice, memory, and truth held intact. This piece reclaims echoes as moral speech, resisting the systems that erase our ways of knowing.

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The Morality of Scripts—Justice Spoken in Fragments
Echoes as Ethics: Reclaiming GLP Fragments as Whole Speech
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 3d
Today’s episode critically examines how traditional autism research has misinterpreted the moral reasoning of autistic children.

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Episode 378: Autism Research Misheard Moral Expression—Gestalt Language Processing and Echoes
Today’s episode critically examines how traditional autism research has misinterpreted the moral reasoning of autistic children.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 4d
Autistic children make moral judgments just like peers—but often voice them through echoes, not abstractions. To honour them, we must hear justice in borrowed words, not mistake fidelity for absence.

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The Evidence Was Already There: How Autism Research Misheard Moral Expression
When Repetition Speaks: Re-reading Autistic Children’s Moral Reasoning Through Gestalt Language Processing
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 4d
Today’s episode provides a detailed, first-person narrative and analysis of the challenges faced by an AuDHD gestalt language processor (GLP) during routine cognitive health screening for aging.

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Episode 377: Autistic Cognition, Aging, and the Cognitive Test Trap
Today’s episode provides a detailed, first-person narrative and analysis of the challenges faced by an AuDHD gestalt language processor (GLP) during routine cognitive health screening for aging.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 5d
A first-person account of navigating cognitive health screening as an AuDHD gestalt processor—why standard tests fail us, what better care could look like, and how I’m reclaiming the space on my terms.

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When the test is the trap—ageing, cognition, and an autistic brain that thinks in wholes
A milestone check becomes a minefield—standard cognitive screening meets AuDHD gestalt language processing. What these tests measure, what they miss, and why the encounter itself can injure.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 5d
Today’s episode argues that demanding Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) for Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) is ethically flawed because it would require withholding necessary support from GLP children, thereby demanding harm as a precondition for evidence.

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Episode 376: Evidence, Ethics, and Harm in Gestalt Language Processing
Today’s episode argues that demanding Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) for Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) is ethically flawed because it would require withholding necessary support from GLP childre...
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 6d
This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

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Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 6d
What ABA calls “no evidence” is really refusal to look. To demand RCTs for GLP is to demand harm. Our scripts, mitigations, and lived literacy are already the proof—evidence sung, not manufactured.

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When “Evidence” Requires Harm: GLP Beyond the Gold Standard
Reframing proof through lived trajectories, ethical research, and the refusal to sacrifice autistic children for corporate science.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 6d
Today’s episode provides a critical re-examination of hyperlexia, arguing it should be understood not as a deficit but as a manifestation of Gestalt Language Processing (GLP).

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Episode 375: Hyperlexia and Gestalt Language Processing: Meaning's Delayed Flood
Today’s episode provides a critical re-examination of hyperlexia, arguing it should be understood not as a deficit but as a manifestation of Gestalt Language Processing (GLP).
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Sky Burkson @skyburkson.bsky.social · 7d
that's what I'm sayin!
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 7d
Find me in the alt text:

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#lego #adventuretime
Alt text: A LEGO Ideas set box for Adventure Time, number 21308, with 495 pieces. The front shows blocky LEGO versions of Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, Lady Rainicorn, the Ice King, BMO, and Gunter the penguin against a grassy cartoon landscape. The Cartoon Network logo and LEGO Ideas branding appear in the lower right corner. Commentary: Lego has always been one of my longest-held stims, a constant companion for emotional regulation. There’s something about the click of the bricks, the rhythm of sorting, the tactile precision of fitting pieces together that anchors me in the present. Building lets my body find its own steady beat, my mind a gentle order against the chaos outside. This Adventure Time set in particular remains a favourite—the bright angles of Finn and Jake, the joy of Lady Rainicorn’s streaked body, the absurdity of the Ice King’s bulk made in plastic. It’s a cartoon world re-assembled in my hands, a reminder that play is serious work when it comes to staying whole. Much has been said about Adventure Time and shows like it being queer-coded, though honestly—who cares whether we stamp a label on it or not? The resonance is there, in the fluid identities, the unconventional loves, the irreverent refusal to fit into neat boxes. It’s the same resonance that makes it a refuge for those of us who never quite matched the scripts handed down to us. Which is why it’s so exhausting to see figures like Musk and his imitators pushing culture-war tantrums, demanding trans characters be scrubbed from platforms like Netflix. As if joy, play, or complexity could be legislated out of existence. As if our stories were theirs to police. The stupidity of it is staggering, but also predictable: empire always panics at what it cannot contain. In the meantime, I’ll keep clicking bricks together, building worlds where no one gets erased.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 7d
Hyperlexia isn’t a contradiction—it’s a GLP pathway. Fluency comes first, meaning later. Misread as failure, it fuels shame and burnout. Reframed, it becomes promise: an archive waiting to flood with comprehension in its own time.

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When the Words Don’t Land: Hyperlexia, Gestalt Language Processing, and the Long Road to Meaning
Reframing hyperlexia as a gestalt pathway—beyond deficit narratives, toward mentorship, patience, and the delayed flood of meaning.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 7d
Today’s episode features an essay by Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, a Gestalt Language Processor (GLP), tracing her painful yet transformative path to literacy.

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Episode 374: Gestalt Processing—Literacy and Belonging Through Lived Evidence
Today’s episode features an essay by Dr.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 8d
An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0'

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'Section 28 2.0' RSE consultation featured four explicitly anti-trans groups, FOI reveals
An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0'
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 8d
Find me in the alt text
Alt text: A screenshot of a tweet by a user named Tsakane (@tsakihyp). The tweet reads: “An honest question: Why would Satan burn you in hell for disobeying a God he also disobeyed?” The background is black with white text, and the user’s profile picture shows a smiling woman. Commentary: Honestly—it’s a sharp question because it exposes how mixed the imagery around hell is. In Christian scripture, Satan isn’t actually the one in charge of hell. He doesn’t sit on a throne handing out punishments. In the Bible, hell (or “the lake of fire”) is prepared for Satan and his angels as their own judgment, not as their kingdom to rule. The popular image of Satan burning people comes more from medieval art, literature, and pop culture than from theology. So if you take the scriptural line, Satan wouldn’t burn you for disobeying God—he’s condemned alongside everyone else. If you take the folklore line, then yeah, it doesn’t make sense: why would a fellow rebel punish other rebels for doing the same thing? It reveals how contradictory the mythos can get once you start mixing Bible, Dante, Milton, and horror movies into one picture. But, as I’m autistic and trans, the American far-right believes I’ll be there, in their make believe place, along with everyone else not emotionally invested in their cult.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 8d
Find me in the alt text
Alt text: A four-panel political cartoon by Sophie Labelle, titled “This government shutdown didn’t happen by accident. It happened by design.” Top left panel: A drawing of Russell Vought, bald with glasses and a beard, in a suit and tie. Text explains that he is the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the key architect of Project 2025, and was called “the man behind Trump’s push for an all-powerful presidency.” Top right panel: A woman with glasses and long hair sits in a chair, looking stern. Text explains that Project 2025 includes a roadmap based on Curtis Yarvin’s “Butterfly Revolution,” which advocates replacing non-partisan government employees with loyalists, seizing public assets, and centralising power in a small elite. Bottom left panel: Another image of Vought gesturing while speaking. Text says he aimed to create conditions to “strip bare” what he calls the “unelected fourth branch of government.” In February, he instructed agencies to prepare for mass layoffs on September 30. Bottom right panel: Illustration of the White House against a blue sky with green trees. Text explains the shutdown will let Trump bypass congressional oversight by declaring which areas are “essential” and ignoring a 1974 law against withholding federal dollars. Caption concludes: “This shutdown was the goal all along.” Signature in the corner: Sophie Labelle. Commentary: Every move by this regime must be read through the twin lenses of Project 2025 and Agenda 47. These aren’t random stumbles but coordinated steps in a strategy to dismantle oversight, strip protections, and consolidate power. What looks like chaos is design—layoffs, shutdowns, attacks on rights—all aimed at clearing the field for loyalists, centralising authority, and locking in minority rule. To mistake this for incompetence is to miss the architecture of authoritarian capture.
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