Today’s episode offers a personal and critical reflection on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), trauma, and memory from an autistic perspective. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, details a temporal collapse that led to a meltdown, where multiple “nows” (past and present moments) layered together, an event she argues is not adequately explained by existing psychological literature. Dr. Hoerricks critiques the academic and clinical establishment for dismissing or negating the lived experiences of autistic GLPs, framing this exclusion as “institutional gaslighting.” She presents a series of writings that emerged after this temporal event, explaining how recursion and repeated narration function as necessary mechanisms for survival and coherence in a gestalt system, directly challenging therapeutic frameworks that demand linearity and “moving on.”
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/when-time-refuses-sequence-living
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