The Script is Not the Silence: Autotheory of a GLP Mind in a Pathologized World

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Hoerricks, J. (2026). The Script is Not the Silence: Autotheory of a GLP Mind in a Pathologized World. Neurodiversity, 4, Article 27546330261427273. https://doi.org/10.1177/27546330261427273

Publication date: 26 Feb 2026 Added to AutiHub: 8 Aug 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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  1. Jaime Hoerricks *

Abstract

This hybrid autotheoretical essay explores Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) as a form of neurodivergent authorship, relational knowing, and resistance to neuronormative containment. Drawing on the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) and critical disability theory, I reframe GLP not as a developmental delay but as a patterned, purposeful response to environments of threat—social, institutional, linguistic. Through poetic fragments, recurring scripts, and reflective commentary, I examine how my language emerges not in linear units but in whole resonant gestalts—borrowed, echoed, repurposed in moments where standard speech fails to hold meaning. These scripts, often misread as absence or dysfunction, function instead as a complex grammar of survival. They carry emotional memory, preserve narrative sovereignty, and resist the extractive demand for clarity that underpins many educational, psychological, and clinical systems. Situating GLP within the broader turn toward critical neurodiversity, I engage with frameworks from queer theory, crip studies, and epistemic injustice to interrogate the power relations embedded in what counts as “language” and who is authorized to use it. I argue that scripting is not a barrier to communication but a refusal of imposed legibility—a way of authoring one's story sideways, rhythmically, relationally. This piece contributes to the growing scholarship that positions neurodivergence as method, not metaphor. In doing so, it challenges pathologizing narratives and proposes GLP as a valid, meaning-rich modality—one that foregrounds difference not as deficit but as an opening to otherwise ways of knowing, speaking, and being heard.

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