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Sarah Kurchak

@fodderfigure.bsky.social

1.9K followers 670 following 3.7K posts

Author of I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder and Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide For People Who Just Want To Lie Down. Wrestling and film nerd. Lapsed music fan finding her way back.

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · Dec 8

I appear to have gained a few hundred followers as a result of being part of an autism starter pack, so maybe now is a good time to do some kind of introduction to my life and work in that realm.

Hi! I'm an autistic writer who covers autism, pop culture and the middle of that Venn diagram.

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 12h

That is genuinely motivating.

Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 13h

I'm still Team Physical Media, but this move (which is still not done) really tested me.

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 15h

eternal mood

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 21h

Every once in a while, I come up with some bullshit that Fightland would have let me write and I mourn its demise all over again. (Today it’s an essay on how Phil Ellis’s Taskmaster outfit pays tribute to old school boxers.)

Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 1d

(And I’d much rather keep the gym recreational and use it to build myself a pair of EVIL-esque thighs, anyway.)

Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 1d

My fancy new building has a yoga room and well meaning people in my life are trying to convince me that I should ask to teach Pilates there. I don’t know how to explain to them that a place like this is only looking for instructors who are much hotter, 20 years younger, and 30 pounds lighter than me

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 2d

Carl on aqua teen hunger force from that episode where they tried to give him a body made entirely of eyeballs

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a good look for him.

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 3d

Mom and I picked up a Billy bookcase from IKEA and made Black Christmas and Poppy Family references the entire time.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 3d

Heartbroken because I'm certain he's neither the first, nor will he be the last.

Heartbroken because cops of all flavors have always been dangerous to Autistic people, and especially Autistic BIPOC.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas