Today’s episode serves as a deep meditation on autistic temporality and its implications for connection, safety, and community. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, explores how autistic time is non-linear and “recursive,” where memory functions as “presence distributed through time” rather than a sequential past. Dr. Hoerricks contrasts this durational literacy with the demands of capitalism and societal quickness, arguing that genuine safety and comprehension require slowness and co-regulation, or “shared rhythm.” Ultimately, she proposes that joy is a “radical methodology” and a “counter-science,” representing the internal coherence felt when the nervous system confirms belonging, with every act of tenderness contributing light to a collective “tender archive.”

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-archive-of-joy-on-autistic-time

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