Today’s episode traces a journey of self-discovery at the intersection of gender identity (transfemme), neurodivergence (AuDHD), and language processing (GLP). The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, details her struggle with academic language and traditional therapy, which demanded linear thought, arguing that her natural poetic and metaphorical language was initially pathologised as deficient but was actually her authentic “first language.” Dr. Hoerricks contrasts the “dead language” of analytic tradition, which she asserts was born from Freud’s betrayal of trauma survivors, with the “embodied tongue” of poetic language, citing Hans Jörg Stahlschmidt’s 2024 work on its relevance to psychotherapy. Ultimately, she concludes that embracing her authentic, nonlinear syntax allowed her to become whole, finding healing not through correction or analysis, but through the aliveness and coherence of her own poetic expression.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/i-didnt-hate-being-himbut-im-loving

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