The AutSide Podcast
Episodes
Episode 278: AI Brain Study - Cognitive Debt or Systemic Burden?
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critically analyses the MIT AI Brain Study on ChatGPT use, arguing that it misinterprets the reasons behind AI adoption for writi...
Episode 277: Unseen Language - A Letter to Parents of GLP Younglings
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode provides a profound perspective on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) in autistic individuals, challenging conventional understand...
Episode 276: Autistic Sensory Overload - The Lights Were Always Brighter
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reviews and simplifies a 2024 study, “Retinal GABAergic Alterations in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.” The study confi...
Episode 275: Autistic Crashes - Memes as Lived Research and Knowledge
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that autistic memes and social media provide a more accurate and relevant understanding of autistic emotional experiences,...
Episode 274: Unwriting Empire - A Queer History of Language
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores a queer history of language, proposing that writing originated not from imperial control or measurement, but from sacred...
Episode 273: Luminous Beings - Phosphenes, Biophotons, and Autistic Perception
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the phenomenon of phosphenes, the lights many people perceive when their eyes are closed, through the lens of autistic p...
Episode 272: We Were Never Lost
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that queer and trans narratives have not been lost throughout history but were intentionally suppressed and miscategorised...
Episode 271: Autistic Critique and the Myth of Neutrality
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the Dr. Jaime Hoerricks’ experience as an autistic student taking an introductory psychology course, specifically focu...
Episode 270: A Theatre of Becoming
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the Dr. Jaime Hoerricks’ personal journey of gender identity and self-acceptance, using the metaphor of a theatre prod...
Episode 269: The Autistic Question - Rewriting the American Dream
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode examines the 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr., where Baldwin argued the American Dream was achieved a...
Episode 268: Sub-minimum Expectations - Special Education's Gig Future
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode offers a critical reflection on the increasing “gig-ification” of special education, using a personal anecdote from a credent...
Episode 267: The Unspeakable Truths of an Autistic Body
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the complex experience of trauma and autism, particularly for individuals who are gestalt language processors. The autho...
Episode 266: Literacy as Political Smokescreen - Weaponising Education
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that the Trump regime’s “Science of Reading” initiative is not a genuine effort to improve literacy but rather a pol...
Episode 265: Training in Public
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the disparity between the training and performance expected in corporate environments versus professional athletics, usi...
Episode 264: What the Skin Remembers
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores a trans femme perspective on beauty, self-care, and ancestral nourishment, contrasting it with modern consumerist beauty...
Episode 263: Pride: Unlicensed Joy, Ungoverned Love
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the complexities of queer joy and visibility within a society that often punishes authenticity. It argues that trans lov...
Episode 262: The Erasure of Autistic Voice
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques the behavioural science model, particularly Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), for its approach to autistic vocalisations...
Episode 261: The Architecture of Sensory Safety in Classrooms
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the profound impact of classroom design on neurodivergent individuals, particularly those who are autistic. The author o...
Episode 260: Diagnostic Frameworks and AuDHD Recognition
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques the limitations of current diagnostic frameworks for Autism and ADHD, particularly for individuals who are AuDHD (Autis...
Episode 259: A Radiant Refusal
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the meaning of queerness and Pride, emphasising a joyful, defiant stance that rejects binary classifications and externa...
Episode 258: A Frequency I Never Asked to Tune Into
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the double empathy problem through the lens of an autistic gestalt language processor who is wired for resonance but oft...
Episode 257: Ableism as Colonial Mind: Unlearning and Decolonising
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reframes internalised ableism not as a personal failing, but as a manifestation of colonialism, arguing that dominant systems ove...
Episode 256: Autism, the DSM, and Eugenic Statistics
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode examines the historical development of autism diagnoses within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), h...
Episode 255: The Cartographer’s Return - GLP Minds in the Classroom
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the author’s experience as a Gestalt Language Processor (GLP) working in education, using the metaphor of a “Theatre...
Episode 254: Refusing the Elevator Pitch - Understanding GLP Minds
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores gestalt language processing (GLP), particularly among autistic individuals, highlighting how their communication differs...
Episode 253: Ein Augenblick - Theatre of Gestalts
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores a personal narrative, framed from the perspective of an internal “Observer,” documenting the experience of an autist...
Episode 252: The Coin and the Collar - The GENIUS Act
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode contends that the proposed GENIUS Act, framed as stablecoin regulation and innovation, is actually a means to legalise a system o...
Episode 251: Unmasking America's Autism Therapy Obsession
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critically examines the reasons behind Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) becoming the dominant intervention for autism in the Unit...
Episode 250: The Frequency of Belonging
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode presents a perspective challenging the pathologisation of autism. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues t...
Episode 249: Autistic Solitude and Trauma as Strategy
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode challenges common assumptions about certain behaviours frequently attributed to autistic individuals, proposing they may be traum...
Episode 248: Heights of Theory, Horizons of Socialism
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode uses a vintage Soviet poster depicting people climbing a tower of books towards a radiant, futuristic city as a central metaphor....
Episode 247: Plain Language Unlocks Grade-Level Content
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that in education, particularly in maths, the way questions are phrased often creates an unnecessary linguistic barrier th...
Episode 246: The Autistic Heroine's Journey
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode introduces the concept of The Autistic Heroine's Journey, presenting it as a narrative framework distinct from the traditional He...
Episode 245: Legacy of Normalisation - Paperclip to HHS and Autism
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode asserts that post-World War II American institutions, particularly those related to health, education, and ‘behavioural science...
Episode 244: Neurodivergent Voices Reshape Journalism's Future
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that traditional journalism is in crisis, facing financial collapse due to lost advertising revenue and controlled by weal...
Episode 243: A Slow Homecoming
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reflects on the experience of transgender transition not as a process of becoming new, but as a sacred homecoming and remembering...
Episode 242: Autistic Reading of AJT v Osseo
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode offers a critical analysis of how legal frameworks, exemplified by cases like Youngblood, Daubert, and A.J.T. v. Osseo, prioritis...
Episode 241: Expert Reports - A Pattern of Institutional Containment
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that the Cass Review, despite presenting itself as an independent analysis of gender identity services, is actually an exa...
Episode 240: Becoming the Receiver
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores Dr. Jaime Hoerricks’ experience of autistic and trans emergence, particularly in relation to their first year on HRT. ...
Episode 239: Artefacts from Værensland: A Constellation in a Message
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode examines how communication styles that differ from the neuro-majority, specifically in the context of autism and gestalt language...
Episode 238: The Future the Curriculum Forgot
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode presents a critique of continuing education courses for educators, arguing that they are outdated and fail to address the current...
Episode 237: Not a Deficit - Living the DSM from the Inside
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reflects on the personal experience with Autism Spectrum Disorder, specifically how clinical diagnoses like the DSM-5-TR fail to ...
Episode 236: Sometimes Understanding Is Enough
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reflects on the experience of internal change, specifically within the context of starting hormone replacement therapy (HRT), emp...
Episode 235: The Familiar Monster - Swedish Dracula and American Authoritarianism
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode examines a Swedish adaptation of Dracula from 1899, titled Mörkrets makter (Powers of Darkness), arguing it provides a more rele...
Episode 234: A GLP's Guide to Decoding Financial Fear-Mail
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“ Today’s episode offers a guide for neurodivergent individuals, particularly gestalt language processors, on how to identify and deconstruct mani...
Episode 233: Why Teach When Teachers Aren't Valued?
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode offers a critical examination of the systemic undervaluation of teachers in the United States, arguing that it stems from the his...
Episode 232: Capitalism's Dystopia - Harari, Lutnick, and the New Serfdom
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that the current dystopian reality is not the result of state overreach, as predicted by Orwell, but rather the inevitable...
Episode 231: The High Cost of Autistic Masking
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode examines how autistic masking, particularly for girls, women, and nonbinary individuals, leads to their disappearance from diagno...
Episode 230: DSM Changes, Autism, and Place
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), arguing that its su...
Episode 229: Capitalism, Wheelchairs, and the Politics of Mobility
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that the current issues with accessing wheelchairs, such as long delays for repairs and replacements, are not failures of ...
Episode 228: Theory and Practice Converge in Language Education
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reflects on the convergence of academic research on dialogic literacy, specifically Ruth Newman’s 2025 study on metalinguistic ...
Episode 227: The Diagnostic Cage
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that recent proposals in the UK requiring neurodivergent trans youth to undergo extensive diagnostic evaluations are not s...
Episode 226: The Cailleach Returns
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the idea that trans femininity, particularly for trans women, challenges traditional, restrictive definitions of womanho...
Episode 225: Screams, Softness, and Seeing Patriarchy
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues for reading Andrea Dworkin’s work now, not necessarily to agree with her, but to understand the continued and evolving n...
Episode 224: Returning to Moominvalley - A Radical Education
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores Dr. Jaime Hoerricks’ connection to the Moomin books, seeing them as coded with themes of autism, queerness, and anti-c...
Episode 223: The Softness That Resists
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores femmeness as a profound state of being, distinct from conventional Western definitions of softness as weakness or perfor...
Episode 222: Decoding RFK Jr.'s Capitalist Autism Rhetoric
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode deconstructs the rhetoric of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding autism, arguing that his language, whilst appearing to address issue...
Episode 221: Not Here to Perform - Autistic Communication and Connection
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode highlights the harmful effects of performance-based communication demands on GLPs. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Ho...
Episode 220: Accountability and Transparency in Behavior Analysis
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode criticises the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for its lack of transparency and accountability, arguing that it prioriti...
Episode 219: ABA Critique - Policing Dissent as Reputation Management
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques a recent paper by Morris et al. (2025), arguing that it functions as reputation management for the field of Applied Beh...
Episode 218: RFK Jr., Geier, and the Betrayal of Autism Advocacy
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode criticises Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment of David Geier to lead a “national autism study,” highlighting Geier's history...
Episode 217: Bealltainn Fire and Unconditional Belonging
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reflects on Dr. Jaime Hoerricks’ connection to nature and ancient traditions, particularly the festival of Bealltainn, contrast...
Episode 216: Beyond Biology: Reclaiming Womanhood's Fluid History
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that the contemporary understanding of “woman” as a fixed biological category is a historically recent and socially co...
Episode 215: Wohlig - Queer Journeys of Exile, Survival, and Truth
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reflects on Leo Herrera’s “Post” and expands on the idea of a queer hero’s journey that differs from traditional narrativ...
Episode 214: Echoes of Harm - Autism Research Still Blaming Mothers
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode is a critical reflection by Dr. Jaime Hoerricks on a recent study regarding adverse childhood experiences and neurodevelopmental ...
Episode 213: Designing for Difference - A UDL Week Audio Companion
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“This special podcast episode offers a rich, reflective audio journey through UDL Week—a seven-day exploration of Universal Design for Learning (U...
Episode 212: The Joy That Lives in My Skin
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode celebrates neurodivergent joy and resilience in a world often seeking to erase or “solve” such identities. The author of the ...
Episode 211: The Long Memory of Stone - Relational Knowledge and Ancient Maths
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode presents a reflection on ancestral knowledge and mathematics, arguing that ancient stone monuments across the Atlantic coast reve...
Episode 210: Let the Traces Speak
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques the prevailing deficit-based approach in autism research, particularly in light of recent political rhetoric seeking a ...
Episode 209: Autism - a Systemic Mismatch, Not Individual Defect
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that the challenges autistic individuals face stem from systemic failures rather than inherent flaws. The author of the so...
Episode 208: When Struggle Isn't Growth
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques the prevalent pedagogical approach of “productive struggle,” arguing that its implementation, particularly with cur...
Episode 207: The Long Memory of Gestalts - An Autistic Multilingual Experience
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the experience of an autistic, multilingual gestalt language processor (GLP) during a professional development session t...
Episode 206: Reading the System - Critical Autism Studies and Power
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode advocates for the establishment of Critical Autism Studies as a necessary challenge to prevailing power structures and societal n...
Episode 205: Solving for Belonging- Reclaiming Maths with Story and Clarity
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode presents a reflective journey into creating a math textbook, “The Story of Math,” which aims to be inclusive and accessible, ...
Episode 204: Tartan Day - Memory, Genocide, and the Scottish Diaspora
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode is an analysis of a personal essay from Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, who identifies as a descendant of those impacted by the so-called Hi...
Episode 203: The Digital Oubliette
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode describes the experience of being digitally silenced when a heartfelt post about autism, gender fluidity, and identity was deemed...
Episode 202: The Grammar of Control
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the act of misgendering not as a mistake but as a deliberate refusal rooted in systemic beliefs. The author of the sourc...
Episode 201: Invisible Twice - Masking Autism and Gender
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the significant mental health challenges faced by autistic individuals who are also transgender or gender-diverse. The a...
Episode 200: Autistic Picky Eaters and the Peculiar Effects of a Restricted Diet
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“In today’s episode, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks explores the connection between diet and health, particularly for autistic people and those undergoing HR...
Episode 199: Fading Whose Voice? ABA, Scripting, and Gestalt Language
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques the widespread use of ‘script fading’ within Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for autistic individuals, arguing that...
Episode 198: Scripting is Speech
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques a 2025 ABA study targeting autistic toddlers, arguing it dangerously disregards their communication rights and lived ex...
Episode 197: The Three Body Problem
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode employs the metaphor of the three-body problem in astrophysics to illuminate the lived experiences of the author of the source ar...
Episode 196: House Red
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the frequent misinterpretation of autistic emotions. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, uses rich s...
Episode 195: Narrative Control - Dismantling Education Oversight
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that recent budget cuts to the U.S. Department of Education are not simply about finances but represent a deliberate effor...
Episode 194: Autism, Psychoanalysis, and Neurodivergent Affirming Therapy
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores a personal reflection that examines the shortcomings of traditional psychoanalysis in understanding and supporting autis...
Episode 193: Masking Autism - the Invisibility of High-Masking Girls of Colour
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores how the requirement of visible "impairment" in autism diagnostic criteria leads to the systematic exclusion of high-mask...
Episode 192: Beyond Relationship-Centered: Systemic Harm and Authentic Creation
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques the prevalent idea that education is inherently “relationship-centered,” arguing that this concept often masks syst...
Episode 191: Beyond Binary - Autism, Gender, and Trans Inclusion
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critically examines the historical and persistent exclusion of trans women from autism discourse, arguing that the current unders...
Episode 190: Creating Beyond Compliance - a Teacher's Journey of Innovation
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks’ experiences within teacher professional development systems, re...
Episode 189: Neuroqueer Becoming - Goals Beyond Arrival
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores the unexpected emergence of personal goals through the lens of neuroqueerness and medical transition. Challenging conven...
Episode 188: The Shock Doctrine Comes Home
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that economic tactics used by the United States to exploit post-Soviet Eastern Bloc countries are now being employed domes...
Episode 187: Knowledge as Wonder
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode reflects on the intrinsic joy of learning, contrasting it with a purely rational, utilitarian view of knowledge. The author of th...
Episode 186: The Failure of "Evidence-Based" Education
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode is based upon an article by Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, a former forensic scientist and current teacher, who argues that the term “evi...
Episode 185: Echoes of Eugenics: Autism, Research, and Erasure
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that the US CDC’s renewed investigation into the so-called vaccine-autism link echoes historical eugenics by suggesting ...
Episode 184: Unchosen - a Memoir of Defiance and Self-Belonging
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Dr. Jaime Hoerricks’s “Blast Radius: Epicentre of a Thousand Memories” explores the profound impact of a simple online meme, which triggered ...
Episode 183: Autism, Mental Health, and the Trap of Capitalist Control
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that the current mental health system under capitalism is fundamentally designed for control and compliance, not genuine c...
Episode 182: Sorting the Future - Education, Exclusion, and Authoritarian Logic
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critically examines contemporary shifts in public education within the United States, arguing that policies are increasingly driv...
Episode 181: Autism Research - Ignoring Autistic Adults for Medicalisation
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critically examines the stark disparity in autism research, highlighting a prevailing focus on medical interventions and early di...
Episode 180: The Betrayal of Trans Liberation - on the Aftermath of Trust
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode argues that mainstream LGB organisations have betrayed the trans and queer communities by prioritising assimilation into heterono...
Episode 179: The Far-Right War on Public Education and the Demonisation of Care
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode critiques the current political climate, arguing that the framing of public education advocates and concepts like care and equity...