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Some of us have so many we don't even think about it, but if you start with fewer spoons, you are going to get depleted quicker. The beauty of the spoon metaphor is that it explains something that is highly individual, is not readily visible, but is extremely real.
If you are dealing with chronic pain, daily tasks are going to require more spoons than they would otherwise. Some days you spend all of your spoons just making lunch and getting to work; some days even that is far beyond your capabilities. There is a calculation that happens. If you know that going to an event will take a ton of your energy, you need to make sure 1 not to deplete your energy beforehand and 2 to make sure you have a low key recovery day planned.
We all make these calculations to some extent, but with many chronic conditions that calculation is even more crucial. While it can be an additional mental load, that calculation is ignored only to great detriment. You may hear people with chronic conditions refer to themself as a "spoonie", indicating that this energy calculation is an immense part of their day to day.
And of course, as an artist, I love having a visual shorthand for all of this. Symbols have so much power, especially when marginalized people use them to create a sense of solidarity and support.
Additionally, the cards I make are intended to help you extend a helping hand and offer you a compassionate way of accepting your own limitations.
Being able to visualize this support and everything it means in an image of a spoon? In a card that you can physically hand to someone?
That's incredible to me. To help explain the daily limits of the pain and fatigue that are symptoms of her auto-immune condition, she picked up the closest bunch of things on the table: spoons. Miserandino told her friend that every task, from the small or seemingly insignificant like showering or waiting for the bus, to the large like a busy day of work or cooking dinner, all use up a certain number of your daily allowance of spoons.
She handed her friend twelve spoons and explained to her that healthy people have unlimited spoons to do daily tasks, but chronically ill people have to carefully choose the tasks and plan out every day, because they have limited spoons.
After work, she only had one spoon left — Miserandino told her she could cook dinner, but that meant she had no spoons left to do the dishes or shower. She was shocked by this revelation. You have to just learn how to do this by trial and error. Her essay summarises the difference between able-bodied people, and people with chronic or invisible illnesses like this:. For the most part, they do not need to worry about the effects of their actions.
The healthy have the luxury of a life without choices, a gift most people take for granted. It also drastically helped me understand my own illness when I became sick, and my new limitations when I was first coming to terms with being chronically ill and having less energy than I used to. The Spoon Theory has been helpful to many in the disabled, chronically ill, and even mental illness communities, that the spoon has become a powerful symbol for us.
It symbolises our shared yet diverse lived experiences, our quotidian struggles and sundry triumphs, and most of all, our undeniable resilience and determination to be understood. Tattoos, artworks and clothing featuring spoons are commonplace in our communities. The hashtags spoonie and spooniewarrior on Instagram have millions of posts from people all over the world living with disability, chronic illness or mental illness.
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