The AutSide Podcast
Episodes
Episode 304: Currency and Collapse - A Reckoning with Randian Ideology
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode presents a critical examination of Ayn Rand’s Objectivist philosophy, particularly her views on money and capitalism, as articulat...
Episode 303: Aspie Supremacy, Eugenics, and the Autism Community Myth
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode critiques the prevalent narrative within autism advocacy, arguing that it often perpetuates a eugenics-rooted “Aspie supremacy.”...
Episode 302: You'll Own Nothing - A Business Plan for Control
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode argues that the concept of “you'll own nothing and be happy” is not a threat, but rather a business plan that has been in motion...
Episode 301: Autism Subtypes - Whiteness, Exclusion, and the Politics of Classification
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode critically examines a new study claiming to identify four ‘autism subtypes’ through genetic and behavioural data, arguing that t...
Episode 300: Uncountry - Borders, State Violence, and Defiant Love
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode offers a poignant reflection on state violence and its impact, particularly through the lens of immigration enforcement in Los Angel...
Episode 299: Coaching Malpractice - When Support Becomes Harm
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode discusses malpractice in neurodivergent coaching, drawing parallels to physical harm in sports to illustrate the subtlety yet profou...
Episode 298: The Siege at Home - Myth, Militarisation, and Resistance
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode critiques the United States’ foundational myths of freedom and democracy, arguing they serve as conditioning for public compliance...
Episode 297: The AutSide - Beyond Academic Paywalls
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode critiques the current academic publishing model, asserting it prioritises extraction and prestige over accessibility and public good...
Episode 296: What the Map Doesn't Show You
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode emphasises how official narratives and “maps” often obscure the devastating human impact of policy changes, particularly on disa...
Episode 296: What the Map Doesn't Show - Unlivable Reality
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode emphasises how official narratives and “maps” often obscure the devastating human impact of policy changes, particularly on disa...
Episode 295: No Roads Forward - Mobility, Climate, and Autistic Futures
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode argues that the new budget bill in the US, termed the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” actively dismantles climate action and profoundl...
Episode 294: Optionality and Autistic Support - A Budgetary Betrayal
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode argues that the new budget bill, signed into law in the US, effectively dismantles essential support for autistic individuals by cla...
Episode 293: Sweet Potatoes, Solidarity, and Self-Sustaining Care
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores the concept of mutual aid and self-sufficiency in the face of diminishing state-provided support systems like healthcare an...
Episode 293: The Sweet Potato Doctrine of Solidarity and Care
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode focuses on fostering community resilience and self-sufficiency in the face of declining state support for essential services like he...
Episode 292: Decoding Communication - The Truth of Gestalt Language Processing
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode argues against the mischaracterization of gestalt language processing (GLP), particularly by online "autism coaches" and even some l...
Episode 291: Thumbs-Up - The Grief of Nonresponse
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores the concept of “thought-terminating clichés” and the profound impact of non-responsive or dismissive communication, pa...
Episode 290: The Commons We Chose Against
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores a hypothetical alternate history of the United States, beginning in 1945, where the nation chose a path of “commons” ov...
Episode 289: Silencing Autistic Inquiry
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode argues that recent changes to U.S. policy, specifically the elimination of federal loan access for many graduate students, pose a si...
Episode 288: After Mahmoud - The Collapse of Inclusive Public Education
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode examines how the Mahmoud v. Taylor Supreme Court ruling will likely enable a gradual dismantling of Inclusive education in U.S. publ...
Episode 287: Slowed-Down Love
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores the profound significance of inanimate objects, specifically plush toys, in the lives of autistic individuals and beyond. T...
Episode 286: Autistic Time - A Rhythmic Sovereignty
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores autistic temporality, arguing that the common perception of autistic individuals as “late” or “delayed” stems from ...
Episode 285: Psychiatry, Empire, and the Myth of Objectivity
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode argues that the concept of objectivity, particularly within psychiatry and as embodied by the DSM, is not neutral but rather a colon...
Episode 284: The Silent Symphony of Autistic Embodied Language
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores the concept of autistic embodied language, challenging the common misconception that non-vocal individuals are also non-ver...
Episode 283: When Resilience Becomes a Cage
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode critiques the modern discourse of resilience, arguing that it often functions as a “cage” for multiply marginalised people rathe...
Episode 282: The Market Value of Compliance
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode critically examines how “functioning labels,” particularly for autistic individuals, serve as economic assignments within a “C...
Episode 281: From Soviet Sun to Capitalist Lamp - The Politics of Literacy
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores the political implications of literacy, particularly contrasting the Soviet Union's approach with that of the Global North....
Episode 280: Sanism and Cis-Heteronormativity in Professional Gatekeeping
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode critically examines “sane-heteroprofessionalism”—a concept asserting how sanism and cis-heteronormativity combine to dictate p...
Episode 279: Autistic Empaths - A Systems View of Chronic Anxiety
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Today’s episode explores anxiety in autistic empaths, reframing it not merely as an emotion but as a recursive, embodied, and relational system. ...
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...