“Today’s episode explores the experience of an autistic, multilingual gestalt language processor (GLP) during a professional development session that felt like a sales pitch. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, recounts feeling overwhelmed and disconnected, culminating in a request to summarise the experience in one word, which prompted the German word “nützlich” (useful) to surface. This seemingly benign word held deeper meaning for the author, reflecting the transactional and performative nature of the session, and highlighted how GLPs access language as whole, emotionally resonant gestalts rather than simply translating words. The narrative further examines the fading fluency of less-used languages and the connection between language, memory, and personal identity for GLPs.”
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/bis-ans-ende-der-welt-the-long-memory
I know that NotebookLM struggled a bit with this one, the German words and phrases seemed to trip it up. The article has the correct phrasing if you’re interested.
Let me know what you think.
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