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Cover of the book Work it Out by Sarah Kurchak. The background is light aqua with a light gray grid pattern. In the center is a person seen from overhead, lying in a bed with their head on a pillow, holding two hand weights next to their head. They have brown skin, dark brown hair, and are wearing a yellow tank top.
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Work It Out! An Accessible Guide to Starting Exercise

Posted on September 1, 2023September 2, 2023 by Eli Eggers

Sarah Kurchak’s Work it Out is a neurodivergent accessible guide to starting regular physical exercise. This is a handbook on how to get started for those who have had difficult due to any number of reasons (like stigma, physical and mental health, being neurodivergent in a world where instructions are not designed for your neurotype).

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Black autistic children are still being diagnosed later than average, and often not until after multiple evaluations.

(Note: this article endorses ABA therapy. We do not support ABA, but ABA is also not the main point here.)

#AutisticWhileBlack #autism

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isolinearchip_ Claire 🐝 @isolinearchip_ ·
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Like, sometimes I feel like I could hulk out when I'm really really happy and it's frankly uncomfortable. I dunno, maybe this is a common experience that most other people are better at managing, meanwhile I'm stuck at "ahhh feeling too big! Make big feeling go away!"

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isolinearchip_ Claire 🐝 @isolinearchip_ ·
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That scene in PUNCH DRUNK LOVE when they're talking about how much they love each other and it comes out as how much they want to rip the other person apart is like yeah that's it actually. Not literally of course, but that intensity of emotion and the weirdness of *feeling* it

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isolinearchip_ Claire 🐝 @isolinearchip_ ·
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Was just thinking about this yesterday. Intense positive and negative emotions feel physically, bodily the same to me. Love, anger, despair are all a white-hot restlessness that feels like I'm caught tangled in my skin, with an intellectual layer of "this is pos/neg/null" on top

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