Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
@jaimehoerricks.bsky.social
Educator, Writer, System Disruptor | No Place for Autism, Holistic Language Instruction, Decolonising Language Education, Liminal Echoes, In the Stillness of Chaos | AuDHD & Trans | Teaching & writing as resistance
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A journey through the Grope Room and Play Room—where queer spaces taught me adulthood, embodiment, orientation, and autistic play. A sensory, tender mapping of how we learn ourselves through touch, curiosity, and unapologetic joy.
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Afterglow: The Play Room
A Cartography of Queer Play, Autistic Embodiment, and the Rooms That Taught Me to Grow Up
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November 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A journey through the Grope Room and Play Room—where queer spaces taught me adulthood, embodiment, orientation, and autistic play. A sensory, tender mapping of how we learn ourselves through touch, curiosity, and unapologetic joy.
open.substack.com/pub/sensualr...
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Autistic clarity isn’t rudeness—it’s resistance. This piece exposes how neurotypical politeness protects harm, punishes truth-telling, and turns ambiguity into control—especially during the holiday season’s forced harmony.
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Politeness as Weapon: How Neurotypical Norms Enable Coercion
A Field Guide to Coercion Disguised as Etiquette
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November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Autistic clarity isn’t rudeness—it’s resistance. This piece exposes how neurotypical politeness protects harm, punishes truth-telling, and turns ambiguity into control—especially during the holiday season’s forced harmony.
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Today’s episode argues against the pervasive societal belief that autistic individuals fail to mature beyond childhood.
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Episode 431: The Myth of Peter Pan—Autistic Adulthood and Sovereign Play
Today’s episode argues against the pervasive societal belief that autistic individuals fail to mature beyond childhood.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Today’s episode argues against the pervasive societal belief that autistic individuals fail to mature beyond childhood.
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A meditation on facilitated communication, queer touch, and autistic embodiment—where intimacy becomes language, pleasure becomes fluency, and the body finally speaks in its oldest, truest grammar.
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Afterglow: The Facilitated Body
On queer touch, autistic fluency, and the ancient grammars the body remembers.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A meditation on facilitated communication, queer touch, and autistic embodiment—where intimacy becomes language, pleasure becomes fluency, and the body finally speaks in its oldest, truest grammar.
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Autistic people grow up, deepen, and evolve, yet the world freezes us in childhood. This piece dismantles that myth, showing how our play, learning, and joy mature into complex, sovereign forms of autistic adulthood.
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The Myth of Peter Pan: On Autistic Adulthood, Play, and the World That Refuses to See Us
Breaking the Peter Pan Spell and Reclaiming Autistic Adulthood.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Autistic people grow up, deepen, and evolve, yet the world freezes us in childhood. This piece dismantles that myth, showing how our play, learning, and joy mature into complex, sovereign forms of autistic adulthood.
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Today’s episode provides an overview and meditation on Sarinah O’Donoghue’s 2023 essay, “Thinking with Sticks.”
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Episode 430: Autistic Storytelling—Bodies, Objects, and Distributed Narrative
Today’s episode provides an overview and meditation on Sarinah O’Donoghue’s 2023 essay, “Thinking with Sticks.” The author of the source article, Dr.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today’s episode provides an overview and meditation on Sarinah O’Donoghue’s 2023 essay, “Thinking with Sticks.”
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A meditation on seduction, presence, and the old weather of ink—why I answer an AMA in tides instead of sentences, and why desire, for me, has always lived in atmosphere, recognition, and the handwriting we’ve lost.
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The Slow Art of Attention: The Grammar of Being Seen
Ask Me Anything, Ask Me Everything.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A meditation on seduction, presence, and the old weather of ink—why I answer an AMA in tides instead of sentences, and why desire, for me, has always lived in atmosphere, recognition, and the handwriting we’ve lost.
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A meditation on autistic narrative as something co-authored by bodies, objects, movement, and sensory life—rethinking voice, agency, and meaning through Baggs, Wolfond, and the storied matter that thinks with us.
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In My Language, In My Space: Autistic Storytelling Beyond the Human Subject
Autistic narrative beyond language—where bodies, textures, and things become co-authors.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A meditation on autistic narrative as something co-authored by bodies, objects, movement, and sensory life—rethinking voice, agency, and meaning through Baggs, Wolfond, and the storied matter that thinks with us.
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Today’s episode explores the lived experience of being an autistic-trans self, focusing on the concept of emergence and the societal “fog” that obscures self-recognition.
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Episode 429: The Fog, the Landscape, and the Autistic–Trans Self
Today’s episode explores the lived experience of being an autistic-trans self, focusing on the concept of emergence and the societal “fog” that obscures self-recognition.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Today’s episode explores the lived experience of being an autistic-trans self, focusing on the concept of emergence and the societal “fog” that obscures self-recognition.
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A trans autistic girlhood educated in neon—learning desire, safety, and femme truth from a club queen’s dazzling dissertation when no school, parent, or world ever thought to teach me how to live.
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Field Notes from the Night School: An Unauthorised Education
Tenderloin apprenticeship in desire, safety, and the femme truths no school ever dared to teach.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A trans autistic girlhood educated in neon—learning desire, safety, and femme truth from a club queen’s dazzling dissertation when no school, parent, or world ever thought to teach me how to live.
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A meditation on emergence—how autistic trans lives remain mis-seen until the fog lifts, and how reclaiming our own maps, truths, and archives reveals the landscape that was always ours to name.
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The Fog, the Landscape, and the Autistic–Trans Self: On Being Seen Only When Others Allow It
How We Become Ourselves When the World Finally Sees What Was Always There.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A meditation on emergence—how autistic trans lives remain mis-seen until the fog lifts, and how reclaiming our own maps, truths, and archives reveals the landscape that was always ours to name.
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Today’s episode explores the historical and technological continuity of systematic harm.
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Episode 428: From Malleus to Algorithm—Standardising Systemic Violence
Today’s episode explores the historical and technological continuity of systematic harm.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today’s episode explores the historical and technological continuity of systematic harm.
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A journey through two queer San Francisco worlds—one flat and choreographed, one spacious and alive—tracing how a soft, femme, autistic desire expanded beyond 2D expectations into the four-dimensional self she was always becoming.
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Non-Euclidean Femme: Queerness Beyond the Castro’s Grid
What the Tenderloin Knew: Queer Geography and the Self That Emerged.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A journey through two queer San Francisco worlds—one flat and choreographed, one spacious and alive—tracing how a soft, femme, autistic desire expanded beyond 2D expectations into the four-dimensional self she was always becoming.
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From the Malleus to modern AI, harm repeats through authority and replication. Old biases become new systems. The hammer keeps returning—ink to code—unless we break the architecture that makes the hunt inevitable.
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From the Malleus Maleficarum to Algorithmic Monopoly: How Systems Standardise Violence
On Witch Hunts, Queer Hunts, and the Code That Carries Their Echo.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
From the Malleus to modern AI, harm repeats through authority and replication. Old biases become new systems. The hammer keeps returning—ink to code—unless we break the architecture that makes the hunt inevitable.
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Today’s episode outlines how ableist systems create an architecture of impunity that allows abusers to flourish in institutional settings.
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Episode 427: The Architecture of Impunity—Ableist Systems and Abusers
Today’s episode outlines how ableist systems create an architecture of impunity that allows abusers to flourish in institutional settings.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Today’s episode outlines how ableist systems create an architecture of impunity that allows abusers to flourish in institutional settings.
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A lyrical exploration of what a kiss feels like in four dimensions—where breath becomes geometry, boundaries soften, and tenderness bends space into a new axis of queer, autistic, multidimensional intimacy.
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A Kiss in Four Dimensions: Gestalt of the Fourth Direction
Where Lips Become Portals: Tenderness with More Than One Direction.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A lyrical exploration of what a kiss feels like in four dimensions—where breath becomes geometry, boundaries soften, and tenderness bends space into a new axis of queer, autistic, multidimensional intimacy.
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Ableist systems reward charm, punish clarity, and turn autistic truth-tellers into scapegoats. Abusers thrive because the architecture protects them. Justice begins when we rebuild the room, not when we train the vulnerable.
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The Architecture of Impunity: Why Abusers Thrive in Ableist Systems
On how institutions hide harm, punish honesty, and mistake performance for safety.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Ableist systems reward charm, punish clarity, and turn autistic truth-tellers into scapegoats. Abusers thrive because the architecture protects them. Justice begins when we rebuild the room, not when we train the vulnerable.
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Today’s episode discusses gestalt processing in autistic individuals, describing it as a primary mode of perception that registers the emotional atmosphere or “field” of a situation before verbal content.
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Episode 426: Gestalt Perception and Manipulative Atmospheres—Autistic Safety
Today’s episode discusses gestalt processing in autistic individuals, describing it as a primary mode of perception that registers the emotional atmosphere or “field” of a situation before verbal cont...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Today’s episode discusses gestalt processing in autistic individuals, describing it as a primary mode of perception that registers the emotional atmosphere or “field” of a situation before verbal content.
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A young calculus teacher asks how I learned maths, and a simple question opens a brane—back to the Grope Room, queer geometry, and the night my autistic body first discovered it was built for more than three dimensions.
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The Geometry My Body Recognised: Autistic Perception in Four Dimensions
The Physics of Becoming: Spherical Tenderness, Hyperbolic Hunger.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A young calculus teacher asks how I learned maths, and a simple question opens a brane—back to the Grope Room, queer geometry, and the night my autistic body first discovered it was built for more than three dimensions.
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Autistic GLP minds don’t miss danger—we feel the room tilt long before words betray it. This piece traces how manipulators exploit that attunement, and how reclaiming our atmospheric truth becomes our deepest safety.
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When Gestalts Meet Manipulators: The Double Empathy Problem in Reverse
On Narcissists, Atmospheres, and the Cost of Perceiving Too Honestly.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Autistic GLP minds don’t miss danger—we feel the room tilt long before words betray it. This piece traces how manipulators exploit that attunement, and how reclaiming our atmospheric truth becomes our deepest safety.
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Today’s episode focuses on autistic self-protection and reclaiming personal perception against abusive dynamics.
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Episode 425: A Grimoire for Autistic Self-Protection and Sovereignty
Today’s episode focuses on autistic self-protection and reclaiming personal perception against abusive dynamics.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Today’s episode focuses on autistic self-protection and reclaiming personal perception against abusive dynamics.
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A guide for autistic self-protection—how to recognise narcissistic harm, trust first signals, honour boundaries, and rebuild after injury. A return to perception as inheritance, sovereignty, and quiet, collective warding.
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Protective Spells for Autistic People: A Grimoire Against Narcissists and Other Predators
Reclaiming Perception, Boundaries, and the Right to Name What Hurts
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November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A guide for autistic self-protection—how to recognise narcissistic harm, trust first signals, honour boundaries, and rebuild after injury. A return to perception as inheritance, sovereignty, and quiet, collective warding.
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Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being ignored by academia.
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Episode 424: Marge Blanc and the Science of Workflow as Evidence
Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being ignored by academia.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being ignored by academia.
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A walk through the Tenderloin in the 1980s becomes a passage into a hidden queer city—sex workers, survival networks, and a club without a name. A tribute to the women who lived in the margins and shaped a history the archives never kept.
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Walking the Stroll: A Tenderloin Memory the City Forgot
A remembrance of the women who worked the night, the club that held them, and the queer city that survived beneath the city everyone else claimed to know.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A walk through the Tenderloin in the 1980s becomes a passage into a hidden queer city—sex workers, survival networks, and a club without a name. A tribute to the women who lived in the margins and shaped a history the archives never kept.
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Marge Blanc didn’t work outside science—she fulfilled it. She published a transparent, replicable workflow the world learned and repeated. The academy ignored it, but the evidence lives in us: published is published.
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The Workflow as Evidence: How Blanc Published a Science the World Could Learn
On Workflow, Witnessing, and the Return of Evidence to the People.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Marge Blanc didn’t work outside science—she fulfilled it. She published a transparent, replicable workflow the world learned and repeated. The academy ignored it, but the evidence lives in us: published is published.
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