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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD

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Educator, Writer, System Disruptor | No Place for Autism, Holistic Language Instruction, Decolonising Language Education, Liminal Echoes, In the Stillness of Chaos | AuDHD & Trans | Teaching & writing as resistance Read more on AutSide.Substack.com

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · Jan 10

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Beyond the Series: The Ongoing Reflections of an Autistic Trans Woman in Harmony with Her Identity

Being a gestalt processor can often complicate communications.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 17h

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 17h

My latest book came out on the 10th. This is my third with this publisher. First, No Place for Autism? (2023). Then, Holistic Language Instruction (2024). Now, Decolonising Language Education (2025).

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Decolonising Language Education

How can educators transform language education to empower multilingual and neurodiverse learners while respecting their identities? Jaime Hoerricks challenges the colonial mindset that promotes "Stand...

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe that’s what these “Liminal Echoes” are, really. Not stories to impress or persuade. Just records of the in-between—the threshold between overwhelm and understanding, between silence and speech.

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Liminal Echoes Bonus Chapter: The Observer at the Meeting

A District Meeting, The Observer, and the Slow Work of Reassembling Self

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 23h

This episode provides a rigorous critique of institutional power and the “myth of democracy” within autism research, arguing that the language of “consensus” and “community involvement” is often a performance that masks deep-seated inequity and colonial structures.

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Episode 384: Consensus Without Consent in Autism Research

Today’s episode provides a rigorous critique of institutional power and the “myth of democracy” within autism research, arguing that the language of “consensus” and “community involvement” is often a ...

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 1d

Sure. But not now. Jays are on. 😊🙃

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 1d

Send emails. We’re human. Just ask questions.

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 1d

Find me in the alt text

Alt text: Text on a rainbow-striped background reads: “‘I keep forgetting your pronouns.’ 🙄 No, you don’t. You remember passwords, birthdays, and Netflix logins. You just don’t care enough to practice.” The message calls out excuses for misgendering, asserting that remembering someone’s pronouns is a matter of care and respect, not memory.

Commentary: There’s a particular ache that comes when someone refuses to learn your name or your pronouns. It isn’t the small sting of forgetfulness—it’s the slow burn of being told that your self is too inconvenient to remember. Language is the bridge between worlds; when someone won’t cross it, they’re choosing distance. They’re saying, you will do the labour of existing here alone.

When public figures—men like Adam Curry—turn that refusal into performance, it becomes something colder. A sport of cruelty, where mockery masquerades as principle. “If I have to learn your pronouns, then I won’t ever refer to you in the third person,” he says, as though erasure were a clever punchline. What he really means is: I will not see you. I will not risk changing the shape of my speech to make room for you.

But for me, there’s a strange clarity in that. Each refusal marks itself as warning. I no longer waste energy wondering whether someone is safe—language tells me. The ones who take the time to learn, to listen, to practice until it feels natural—those are the people I can exhale around. The rest, I know to keep at a distance. Pronouns, names—they are not courtesies. They are small acts of care, the first gestures of safety. And when someone can’t be bothered to make them, I believe them.

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 1d

A critique of “consensus” in autism research—how inclusion becomes performance, power remains untouched, and cure rhetoric persists. Yet amid it all, autistic-led scholarship rises—quiet, defiant, building truth brick by brick

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Consensus Without Consent: The Myth of Democracy in Autism Research

On the illusion of democracy in autism research—and the quiet, stubborn work of autistic scholars reclaiming the right to define our own existence.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Episode 383: Autistic Strengths and the Silence of the Archive

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

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 2d

When autistic people define our own strengths, the record goes quiet. Not because we are voiceless, but because the research tradition still listens only for lack.

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Listening for the Absent Record: Autistic Strengths and the Silence of the Archive

Not a Lack of Strength, a Lack of Listening—Autism Research’s Hidden Deficit

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s episode examines a critical essay refuting the methodology and underlying assumptions of a 2024 Cambridge study on the moral foundations of autistic people, particularly focusing on research by the Baron-Cohen cohort.

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

Today’s episode examines a critical essay refuting the methodology and underlying assumptions of a 2024 Cambridge study on the moral foundations of autistic people, particularly focusing on research b...

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 3d

Today is release day for my latest book from Lived Places Publishing - Decolonising Language Education. So happy to finally be able to share this with you all.

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Decolonising Language Education

How can educators transform language education to empower multilingual and neurodiverse learners while respecting their identities? Jaime Hoerricks challenges the colonial mindset that promotes "Stand...

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 3d

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Bruno, G. et al (2025)Decolonizing autism research Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being & doing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Prioritize Indigenous & Autistic co/leadership
Develop framewks of ethical space & relational accountability
Foster cross-cultural & interdisc collab

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 3d

Cambridge calls it fairness; we call it fidelity. This new “moral foundations” study from the Baron-Cohen cohort isn’t science—it’s soft eugenics in academic dress. Simon says be fair. We are—but not in their language.

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Refusing Their Lexicon: How Cambridge’s Autism Research Retools Fairness, Care, and Control

Autism, morality, and the quiet machinery of control.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s episode critically reviews a new Nature study, led by researchers associated with Cambridge and Simon Baron-Cohen, which proposes two polygenic factors for autism based on the age of diagnosis.

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

Today’s episode critically reviews a new Nature study, led by researchers associated with Cambridge and Simon Baron-Cohen, which proposes two polygenic factors for autism based on the age of diagnosis...

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 4d

Find me in the alt text

Alt text: A close-up photo of an open book showing a passage from So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams. The dialogue features Arthur and Ford discussing a planet where the leaders are lizards and the people, who hate the lizards, still vote for them. Ford explains that it’s a democracy, but people keep voting for lizards because otherwise “the wrong lizard might get in.” The page number 597 appears at the top right.

Commentary: They’ve always been lizards, haven’t they? Different colours, different slogans, same cold scales. Watching them trade soundbites about people like me—autistic, trans, inconvenient—I see the same choreography Ford described: a performance of opposition masking total consensus. One side frames me as threat, the other as symbol, both feeding on the spectacle of my existence. It doesn’t matter which lizard wins; the outcome is prewritten in the machinery that keeps them on the podium and us under the lights. Every election season feels like déjà vu—another round of promises to protect or to purge, neither of which ever meant care. They call it democracy, but to me it feels more like a rotating spotlight trained on the same cage.

Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 4d

Cambridge dresses old prejudice in genetic clothing—calling the late-diagnosed autistic “co-morbid,” not “core.” But we were never invisible, only unseen. Simon says divide; we say we were whole all along.

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Simon Says: Two Shadows of Autism

How Cambridge’s new “two-factor” autism study repackages exclusion as genetics—and turns late-diagnosed women’s hard-won recognition into a fresh round of erasure.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s episode presents a powerful argument challenging the prevailing narrative that autistic people lack empathy.

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

Today’s episode presents a powerful argument challenging the prevailing narrative that autistic people lack empathy.

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 5d

Autistic empathy was never absent—it was stolen, misread, weaponised. From Stone-Borne patience to lion defiance, this counter-canon refuses deficit and declares our continuity, our after.

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The 'After' They Cannot Imagine: Autism, Empathy, and the Counter-Canon

Not Deficit but Continuity: An Autistic Response to Philosophy’s Theft

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s episode provides a critical analysis of how the speech patterns of GLPs, particularly those who are AuDHD, are frequently misread as deficits rather than a complete form of communication, focusing specifically on expressions of morality and justification.

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

Today’s episode provides a critical analysis of how the speech patterns of Gestalt Language Processors (GLPs), particularly those who are AuDHD, are frequently misread as deficits rather than a comple...

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 6d

For GLPs, fragments aren’t deficits but full containers of meaning—justice, memory, and truth held intact. This piece reclaims echoes as moral speech, resisting the systems that erase our ways of knowing.

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The Morality of Scripts—Justice Spoken in Fragments

Echoes as Ethics: Reclaiming GLP Fragments as Whole Speech

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 6d

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

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

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

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 7d

Autistic children make moral judgments just like peers—but often voice them through echoes, not abstractions. To honour them, we must hear justice in borrowed words, not mistake fidelity for absence.

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The Evidence Was Already There: How Autism Research Misheard Moral Expression

When Repetition Speaks: Re-reading Autistic Children’s Moral Reasoning Through Gestalt Language Processing

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 7d

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

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

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

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 8d

A first-person account of navigating cognitive health screening as an AuDHD gestalt processor—why standard tests fail us, what better care could look like, and how I’m reclaiming the space on my terms.

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When the test is the trap—ageing, cognition, and an autistic brain that thinks in wholes

A milestone check becomes a minefield—standard cognitive screening meets AuDHD gestalt language processing. What these tests measure, what they miss, and why the encounter itself can injure.

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