I think spoonie culture is a little cringe but wtf are you doing appropriating the language of chronic illness to describe your entitled colonizer mindset? Fuck off.
It’s literally not even like the context you use that shit in, you have like too few spoons to be able to wash up after dinner or shit like that, if you are spending spoons on literally just passive sympathy for a political struggle then you’re operating in a new dimension of cutlery theory.
I once had a Zionist on start using leftist terms and tell me I had no right to criticize anything Isntreal did from the imperial core.
Lol what, it’s a military outpost of the imperial core and I’m a core dweller, I am well within my rights to criticize the horror I am forced to help subsidize.
I feel like when the idea was first introduced it was a helpful metaphor, but now it’s a weird token of victimhood? As a person active in the CI community when I meet someone who self identifies as a spoonie I roll my eyes and prepare to be exhausted.
You were rude to assume that I am making any statements about neurodivergency at all.
Spoonie was originally a term to describe physical illness.
I am in constant physical pain.
That is not the same as being autistic. There is no social model for my disability. I am in agony.
I am enraged that you make false statements about my illness.
the what culture? what the hell is anyone talking about here and why is no one else confused
You are mistaken about the origin of the term. Vigilantes are gross, but malingerers also do real, tangible harm to people who have to contend with the medical system and the term “spoonie” is certainly overused by a certain kind of bad faith actor in the CI community.
iirc the “spoons” thing started with (or was popularized by?) a youtube video about mental health, which used an analogy where you start the day with a set number of spoons, and the spoons represent how much mental energy you have to accomplish tasks. During the day, you spend your spoons in various situations, potentially running out of spoons if you overexert yourself. Conditions like depression are said to reduce the number of spoons you start the day with. The analogy helps some people to not beat themselves up for struggling to get through the day.
I just read up on it and its fine if it helps people, but why spoons? It seems to be that anyone so dense they can’t grasp that day to day activities tax your limited reserves probably wouldn’t grasp your weird spoon analogy. Why not use fuel or batteries or money or something else that people would understand as a limited resource necessary for operation?
