Jaime HoerricksJaime Hoerricks (they/she) is a trans, autistic writer, educator, and gestalt langauge processor living and working in Los Angeles, California-by way of the Stone-Borne people of the West Highlands. Their work weaves lived experience with educationalpractice, always with a deep regard for language as both refuge and resistance. For readers interested in exploring more of Jaime's thinking-particularly at the intersection of neurodivergence, pedagogy, and systemic reform-you can find their ongoing work at AutSide.Substack.com. AutSide is a newsletter, reflection space, and archive of living theory-offering essays on inclusive education, neurodivergent writing practices, sensory justice, and the politics of refusal, all grounded in Jaime's lived and professional expertise. Their academic and practitioner-oriented books include: - No Place for Autism? (Lived Places Publishing) - A lived-experience exploration of autism as identity and difference, challenging deficit models and asking what it would take for places to truly make space for autistic people. Interrogates how autism is framed, advocating for structural change over individual correction-and for spaces to become places where autistic people can genuinely belong. - Holistic Language Instruction - a reimagining of how we teach language through relational, sensory, and culturally sustaining practices. Addresses the reasons behind the West's terrible reading scores, and offers concrete plans to improve them. - Decolonising Language Education - a call to educators to dismantle colonial structures embedded in literacy and language pedagogies. These texts speak to parents, educators, researchers, and advocates looking for actionable insight and systemic challenge. But In the Stillness of Chaos is different. This project is personal-intimate, nonlinear, and deliberately unfiltered. It is a poetic ledger of becoming, of memory and meltdown, of reclaiming breath and body and name. If those earlier books spoke from the lectern, this one speaks from the hillside, the fireside, the breath between shutdown and shimmer. Jaime writes not for applause, but for resonance-for the ones who were never meant to be here, but are. Still here. Still becoming. Read More Read Less