“Today’s episode argues that autistic memes and social media provide a more accurate and relevant understanding of autistic emotional experiences, specifically “crashes,” than traditional academic research. The author of the source article, Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, highlights how academic frameworks often fail to capture the lived reality of autistic adults, focusing on external symptoms and neurotypical assumptions rather than autistic-generated knowledge. Dr. Hoerricks asserts that memes function as a form of collective autoethnography and grounded theory, offering rich, authentic insights into phenomena like masking fatigue and sudden emotional collapse. Ultimately, she suggests that researchers should look to these online communities for valid and essential insights, recognizing them as a legitimate source of knowledge and a powerful means of autistic self-description and theory-building.”
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/not-a-spiral-but-a-crash-how-memes
Let me know what you think.
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