HeyJaredThe AutSide
Essays from an autistic transfemme educator navigating care, justice, and neurodivergence in a world not built for us. These monologues are offerings—gestalts that long for dialogue, held in AuDHD time.
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Architectural: Sensory Abnormality (opens the original)
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Autistic sensory experience is often called abnormal because information others background remains present. But what if the signal is accurate? Perhaps the architectural difference lies in what the nervous system lets disappear.The light is flickering. Not metaphorically. Not because I am anxious, overwhelmed, dysregulated, attending incorrectly, or experiencing an internal state that I have projected onto an otherwise stable environment.The light is actually flickering.And it may actually be gr
Architectural: Communication Impairment (opens the original)
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We measure communication where another person can receive it: at the output. But speech is downstream. If meaning exists before linguistic specification, the utterance may reveal very little about what exists upstream.There are moments when I know exactly what I mean and cannot tell you.That sentence is already slightly wrong.Exactly suggests that somewhere inside me there is a finished sentence waiting to be retrieved—that the meaning already possesses the boundaries, sequence, vocabulary, synt
Architectural: Social Deficit (opens the original)
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Autistic sociality is often described as missing cues, context, or meaning. But what if some of us receive too much social information at once—and cannot privilege the signals others treat as obviously important?I have spent much of my life being told, in one form or another, that I miss social cues.It is an interesting description because it does not feel much like my experience of being with other people.I notice the hesitation before someone answers. I notice that the words and the cadence do
Architectural: Executive Dysfunction (opens the original)
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Executive dysfunction names what can be seen: I have not begun, switched, prioritised, or finished. But what if the difficulty begins upstream, where too much remains active for one action to stabilise?I am sitting in front of the thing I need to do.I know what it is. I understand why it matters. I may even want very badly to do it. There is no mystery about the eventual destination and, sometimes, I can already apprehend something remarkably close to the whole of what the finished thing needs t
Sunday Mornings with Jaime & Cathy: What is Gestalt? (opens the original)
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After weeks apart, Cathy and I returned to a question at the heart of my work: how does meaning become language? We followed its history across disciplines, brought it back to my classroom, and celebrated a sold-out webinar.It was good to speak with Cathy again after several weeks apart. She returned with a deceptively simple question: what is gestalt, and where does a definition begin? That gave us a way into the work I’ve been doing whilst she was away—tracing a history that reaches well beyon
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