The AutSide Podcast

Episode 470: The Sovereign Mind—From Universal Truth to Lived Coherence

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores how epistemology functions as a tool of institutional power rather than a simple personal preference or intellectual choice...

Episode 469: The Topology of Estrangement—Distance as Geometry

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode introduces a reimagined perspective on estrangement, shifting the focus away from moral failure or personal blame. Rather than viewi...

Episode 468: Gestalt Processors—The Body Remembers and the Wound Returns

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores how traumatic experiences are physically preserved within the body rather than existing as mere psychological failures. Ins...

Video Episode 03: Who Owns GLP?

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s video, I take a step back to situate three pieces that were written close together but operate in different registers. They aren’t iter...

Episode 467: Epistemic Authority and the Lived Coherence of Gestalt Processing

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode analyses Marge Blanc’s 2025 response to academic critiques regarding how individuals acquire language through gestalt languauge de...

Episode 466: Beyond the Couple Capstone—The Coherence of Autistic Love

03 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode serves as a final integration of ideas regarding how autistic individuals experience and define their personal connections. The auth...

Episode 465: The Solitary Gestalt—Sovereignty in Autistic Solitude

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the profound concept of solitary sovereignty, specifically within the context of autistic autonomy. The author of the sourc...

Episode 464: The Architecture of Ambient Belonging

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the concept of relational ecosystems, proposing a move away from the traditional two-person couple as the primary unit of s...

Episode 463 - Customised Monogamy and After-the-Fact Design Ethics

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores a unique approach to customised monogamy that focuses on relationships forming naturally before any formal rules are establ...

Episode 462: Queerplatonic Bonds and Untranslated Relationships

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the nature of queerplatonic bonds. The author of the source articke, Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, argues that these are deep, sust...

Episode 461: Polyamory as Gestalt-Preserving Intimacy

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the concept of polyamory, reframing it as a form of “Gestalt-Preserving Intimacy.” The author of the source article, Ja...

Episode 460: Relationship Anarchy—Care for the Felt Whole

28 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode introduces the concept of relationship anarchy as a framework for care. Authored by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, the source article focuses...

Episode 459: Autistic Meaning and the Examination of Intimacy

27 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the concept of “default intimacy” and its impact, particularly on autistic individuals. The author of the source articl...

Episode 458: Beyond the Couple—The Body Knows First

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode examines an essay titled “Beyond the Couple: The Body Knows First,” authored by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, focusing on Gestalt Proces...

Episode 457: Autistic Love and Gestalt Attunement Beyond the Couple

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode introduces a series focusing on autistic love, gestalt attunement, and the rejection of conventional intimacy. The author of the sou...

Episode 456: First Person—Frame by Frame

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode addresses the issue of vicarious trauma and the invisible toll of forensic work. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerric...

Episode 455: Two Roads Out of Childhood—Vulture Capitalism and Autism

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode examines the concept of an adult life lived cohesively and collaboratively, where work aligns with temperament and community suppor...

Episode 454: Gestalt Memory, HRT, and Writing from the Body

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores a Substack post by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “When the Files Reopen: Gestalt Memory, HRT, and Writing from the Body,”...

Video Episode 02: A Life That Cannot Be Pulled Apart

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation between Cathy and I about gestalt being—not as theory, but as lived coherence. Family scripts, shared meaning, professional erasure, ...

Episode 453: Refusal as Harm—Autistic Boundaries and Forced Repair

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode focuses on the concept that setting boundaries, particularly within autistic, queer, and trans contexts, is frequently misinterprete...

Episode 452: Pressing Pause—Ethics of Estrangement and Non-Ownership

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode offers a deep reflection on the common societal perception of estrangement. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, c...

Episode 451: Selective Depth—Queerness, GLP, and Refusal to Be Extracted

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is a reflection by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, on the interwoven experiences of being AuDHD, a gestalt language processor (GLP), and queer...

Episode 450: When Writing Breaks Down: A Teacher's Guide to SLT, OT, and the Spaces Between

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode examines an article, “When Writing Breaks Down,” which acts as a guide for teachers on understanding struggles related to writin...

Episode 449: Gestalt Temporality, Trauma, and Coherence After Collapse

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode offers a personal and critical reflection on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), trauma, and memory from an autistic perspective. The...

Episode 448: Talking and Memory Integrity for Gestalt Processors

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the function of speech for gestalt language processors (GLPs), arguing that talking is primarily a form of memory integrity...

Episode 447: Gestalt Cognition, Trauma, and the Refusal of the Diagnostic Fork

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode presents a careful examination of the perceived binary between trauma and gestalt cognition, arguing that choosing between these two...

Video Episode 01: GLP and Safety

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, Cathy and I explore how autistic gestalt language processors experience memory not as recall, but as whole return. Drawing o...

Episode 446: Whole-Memory Processing—Trauma and Gestalt Knowing

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode outlines the concept of Gestalt Memory in the context of trauma, particularly for gestalt language processors (GLPs). The author of ...

Episode 445: Gaslighting Trauma—Why Validation Must Be Repeated

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode examines the profound impact of gaslighting on an individual’s sense of reality and the necessity of repetitive validation for rec...

Episode 444: Gestalt Processors—Why Returning to Trauma Isn't Rumination

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the concept of memory processing, particularly for gestalt language processors (GLPs). The author of the source article, Dr...

Episode 443: Workplace Intimacy—Extraction and the Autistic Nervous System

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode analyses the negative impact of mandatory team-building and enforced vulnerability sessions on autistics and gestalt processors. The...

Episode 442: Coherence—Autistic Memory and Systemic Subtext

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode discusses the nature of autistic memory and pattern recognition through a personal anecdote involving a student named Claudio. The a...

Episode 441: Mnemotechnic Cathedrals—Autistic Architecture Against Analytic Supremacy

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode proposes that autistic memory and language, specifically Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), constitute a sophisticated and coherent ...

Episode 440: Refusing the Analytic Scalpel—Gestalt Language Sovereignty

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode offers a highly critical and unapologetic rebuttal to a 2025 ASHA publication regarding Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), which the...

Video Episode 00: The Dawning of a New Era

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A first conversation between Cathy Shilling and I on gestalt processing from the inside—how GLP minds think, speak, remember, and reorganise meaning...

Episode 439: Love Without Vanishing—Coherence as Intimacy's Core

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the foundational principles of autistic attachment and intimacy, prioritising self-preservation within deep connection. The...

Episode 438: Teaching Danger Without Fear for Autistic Teens

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critiques traditional safety education for autistic adolescents, arguing that it fails by prioritising social performance and compli...

Episode 437: The Empathy That Built the World and Broke Us

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode examines how intense emotional sensitivity and hyper-empathy—particularly that experienced by autistic individuals—is systematic...

Episode 436: The Interior Architecture of the Gestalt Mind

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode serves as the introduction to a new podcast series that aims to explore Gestalt Processing from the internal perspective of an autis...

Episode 435: The Language of Leaving—Migration and Invisible Borders

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the complex reality of international migration, focusing on the acute difficulties faced by Gestalt Language Processors (GL...

Episode 434: Genre Promiscuity—Writing the Constellation of Truth

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, outlines her philosophy of writing, which she terms “genre promiscuity,” asserting that her work—...

Episode 433: Ableism, Complexity, and the Failure of Linear Care

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the tension between linear, simplified thinking prevalent in human services and the inherent multicausality and complexity ...

Episode 432: Politeness as Weapon—Neurotypical Norms and Coercion

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode argues that conventional neurotypical politeness functions as a system of social control that actively protects those who cause harm...

Episode 431: The Myth of Peter Pan—Autistic Adulthood and Sovereign Play

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode argues against the pervasive societal belief that autistic individuals fail to mature beyond childhood. The author of the source art...

Episode 430: Autistic Storytelling—Bodies, Objects, and Distributed Narrative

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides an overview and meditation on Sarinah O’Donoghue’s 2023 essay, “Thinking with Sticks.” The author of the source art...

Episode 429: The Fog, the Landscape, and the Autistic–Trans Self

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the lived experience of being an autistic-trans self, focusing on the concept of emergence and the societal “fog” that ...

Episode 428: From Malleus to Algorithm—Standardising Systemic Violence

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the historical and technological continuity of systematic harm. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argu...

Episode 427: The Architecture of Impunity—Ableist Systems and Abusers

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode outlines how ableist systems create an architecture of impunity that allows abusers to flourish in institutional settings. The autho...

Episode 426: Gestalt Perception and Manipulative Atmospheres—Autistic Safety

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode discusses gestalt processing in autistic individuals, describing it as a primary mode of perception that registers the emotional atm...

Episode 425: A Grimoire for Autistic Self-Protection and Sovereignty

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode focuses on autistic self-protection and reclaiming personal perception against abusive dynamics. The author of the source article, D...

Episode 424: Marge Blanc and the Science of Workflow as Evidence

22 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being igno...

Episode 423: What's Missing Is the Body—An Autistic Critique of Sex Education

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides an autistic critique of sex education research, specifically focusing on a study by Panagiotakopoulou and colleagues, argui...

Episode 422: Vonnegut's EPICAC—The Autistic Mind in Code

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides excerpts from an analysis titled “EPICAC: The Machine Who Felt Too Much” by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, offering an overview ...

Episode 421: Gestalt Language Processing on Trial: Evidence Cross-Examined

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode presents an extensive cross-examination of a systematic review concerning interventions based on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) a...

Epiode 420: The Architecture of Coherence—Attunement, Expression, and Resonance

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is an excerpt from a reflective synthesis by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “The Architecture of Coherence: On Attunement, Expressio...

Episode 419: The Pulse Between Us—Co-Regulation as Shared Humanity

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the concept of co-regulation as a fundamental, physiological process of shared rhythm and presence that precedes language a...

Episode 418: Alexithymia and Relational Design in the Classroom

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode fundamentally argues that emotional regulation is a relational and environmental process, not merely an individual act of willpower....

Episode 417: Alexithymia—Emotional Literacy Through Body and Sensation

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode fundamentally challenges the standard verbal and chart-based approaches to emotional literacy, particularly for autistic and gestalt...

Episode 416: The Shape of Feeling—Alexithymia and Attunement

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides a profound first-person reflection, authored by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, on the experience of alexithymia and emotional dysreg...

Episode 415: Gestalt, Alexithymia, and the Language of Wholeness

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode challenges conventional, deficit-focused views of alexithymia, which is often characterised as the absence of words for feelings, by...

Episode 414: Collapse of Behavioural Empire—Arizona and ABA's Enduring Contradictions

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critiques the Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) industry, particularly in autism treatment, framing its current struggles as an inevi...

Episode 413: When Machines Become Mirrors—Autistic Imagination and Gatekeeping

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critiques how dominant culture polices marginalised creation, specifically focusing on the intersection of queerness, autism, and di...

Episode 412: The Curriculum of Touch—Autism, Attunement, and Sensory Literacy

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides excerpts from an essay by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, titled “The Curriculum of Touch,” which serves as a lyrical introductio...

Episode 411: Diametric Cognition—Refusing the Autism-Psychosis Axis

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode argues against the persistence of the diametric cognition model in autism and psychosis research, which positions the two conditions...

Episode 410: The Second Lexicographer—Autism as Dataset

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critiques the modern “scientific study” of autism, asserting that it has transformed autistic individuals into a mere dataset su...

Episode 409: Vision First, Language After—Autistic Praxis

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores the journey of self-discovery and embodiment as an Autistic trans woman. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerri...

Episode 408: Two Roads—Listening and Categorising Autistic Life

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode presents a critical comparison between two distinct approaches to autism research, symbolised by two institutions located near Cambr...

Episode 407: Becoming Whole—Poetic Language, Gender, and Neurodivergence

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode traces a journey of self-discovery at the intersection of gender identity (transfemme), neurodivergence (AuDHD), and language proces...

Episode 406: Published Is Published—Citation Politics and Visible Evidence

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode reflects on the politics of recognition within academic research, particularly concerning practitioner-led work on gestalt language ...

Episode 405: Autism—Cause, Control, and the Theology of Erasure

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode offers a critical examination of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI). The author of th...

Episode 404: The Archive of Joy—Autistic Time and Light

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode serves as a deep meditation on autistic temporality and its implications for connection, safety, and community. The author of the so...

Episode 403: Quantum Language—Barad, Gestalts, and Entangled Knowing Ethics

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode presents an autistic and queer reading of Karen Barad’s agential realism and quantum physics. The author of the source article, Dr...

Episode 402: Sensory Residue—Autistic Adulthood, Touch, and Perception

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode explores themes of autistic adulthood, sensory experience, and intimacy. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, uses...

Episode 401: Extra Time as Equity—Teaching at the Tempo of Comprehension

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode argues that Gestalt Language Processors (GLPs) and other neurodivergent students require a different temporal framework for learning...

Episode 400: The Noise We Keep—Refusal as Method

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode argues for a radical re-evaluation of sounds and behaviours often dismissed as “noise” or symptoms of pathology, particularly wi...

Episode 399: Ethics Before Evidence: Neurodiversity-Affirming Participatory Action Research

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode advocates for speech therapists to redefine research as an ethical and relational act of knowledge-making centered on lived experien...

Episode 398: The Gospel of Control—Reading Skinner Against His Disciples

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode offers a critical analysis of B.F. Skinner’s behaviourism. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, positions Skinne...

Episode 397: Walden Two—Blueprint for a Human Zoo

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode presents a critical reading of B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel, Walden Two, arguing that it serves as a blueprint for control rather ...

Episode 396: The Science of Erasure—Gestalt Processing and Dignity

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critiques the dominant analytic frameworks of language acquisition, particularly those rooted in Behaviorism and Applied Behavior An...

Episode 395: Planting Along the Fence—Reclaiming Literacy's Commons

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critiques the standardisation of literacy education through legislative efforts like California’s AB 1454. The author of the sourc...

Episode 394: Eileen O’Shaughnessy: The Hidden Author of 1984

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode functions as a meditation on authorship, erasure, and inherited trauma, tracing the forgotten contributions of Eileen O’Shaughness...

Episode 393: When Proof Meets Pattern: Teaching Maths to Gestalt Processors

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides excerpts from a Substack essay that focuses on teaching Gestalt Language Processors (GLPs) in a high school mathematics set...

Episode 392: Neurodivergence, Gatekeeping, and the Social Work Exam

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode discusses the exclusion of neurodivergent individuals from the social work profession in the US, arguing that the licensure exam fun...

Episode 391: Gestalt Lineage—Wholeness Before Parts and Positivism

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode offers an extensive overview of a Gestalt-informed lineage in language study, which stands in opposition to positivism and behaviori...

Episode 390: Softness Before Speech—Safety, Resonance, and Language

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode argues that safety and regulation, which the author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, terms “softness” or “felt safe...

Episode 389: The Shape of Language—Revisiting Prizant and Gestalt Processing

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode offers an in-depth discussion distinguishing Autism as a neurological way of being from Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) as a speci...

Episode 388: Becoming Seen, Becoming Sound—A Meditation on Gender and Time

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode serves as a meditation on gender, time, and the experience of becoming. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, frame...

Episode 387: A Neurodivergent Critique of Data-Driven Psychiatry

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode presents a comprehensive neurodivergent critique of data-driven psychiatry, specifically targeting the reform efforts proposed by st...

Episode 386: Obedience Was Never Belonging—Assimilation, Algorithm, and Reaching

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides a critical analysis of assimilationist voices within the trans community, particularly those found on platforms like Substa...

Episode 385: Autism Research Diversity and the Shadow of Eugenics

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode analyses significant ethical and methodological issues within current autism research, focusing on the lack of diversity and problem...

Episode 384: Consensus Without Consent in Autism Research

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides a rigorous critique of institutional power and the “myth of democracy” within autism research, arguing that the languag...

Episode 383: Autistic Strengths and the Silence of the Archive

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critiques the historical bias within autism research toward deficit and pathology rather than genuine understanding of strengths. Th...

Episode 382: Refusing Their Lexicon—Autism Research, Morality, and Control

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode examines a critical essay refuting the methodology and underlying assumptions of a 2024 Cambridge study on the moral foundations of ...

Episode 381: Autism's Two Shadows—Gatekeeping and Genetics

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critically reviews a new Nature study, led by researchers associated with Cambridge and Simon Baron-Cohen, which proposes two polyge...

Episode 380: Autistic Empathy, Stone-Borne Continuity, and the Counter-Canon

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode presents a powerful argument challenging the prevailing narrative that autistic people lack empathy. The author of the source articl...

Episode 379: The Morality of Scripts—Justice Spoken in Fragments

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides a critical analysis of how the speech patterns of Gestalt Language Processors (GLPs), particularly those who are AuDHD, are...

Episode 378: Autism Research Misheard Moral Expression—Gestalt Language Processing and Echoes

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode critically examines how traditional autism research has misinterpreted the moral reasoning of autistic children. The author of the s...

Episode 377: Autistic Cognition, Aging, and the Cognitive Test Trap

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode provides a detailed, first-person narrative and analysis of the challenges faced by an AuDHD gestalt language processor (GLP) during...

Episode 376: Evidence, Ethics, and Harm in Gestalt Language Processing

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode argues that demanding Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) for Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) is ethically flawed because it would re...

Episode 375: Hyperlexia and Gestalt Language Processing: Meaning's Delayed Flood

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...