Ok real about the spoon theory thing bc online MFS truly make everything potentially useful in Specific Cases so incredibly lame and self-centered....augh. we could have had something very useful but 100000 Tumblr users with anxiety occured.

Christine Miserandino basically uses spoons as a very informal metaphor re: non-renewable energy units that get depleted through the day in a early 2000s essay talkin bout how her lupus impacts her day-to-day. It's an okay essay, very personal and IMO worth a read today. Spoon theory kinda stayed within disability / chronic illness Haver online circles for a few years 2003~2010, very tangled into and an important part of early discussions bout ' invisible disabilities' . Imo it's a neat historical on disability politics but it does make me deeply sad how diluted and meaningless these terms have become. So it goes.

I know it's just words but kinda pisses off when abled people use 'low spoons' to describe being like. tired, as this tends to come with a complete lack of understanding or compassion towards disabled ppl and the undercuts potential gravity that a tool like spoon theory COULD have for describing one's personal limits caused by da disability. But that's just my opinion and I'm a proud Bitter Crip Bitch so. Shrug.