The spoon theory is an analogy used by some disabled people and people with chronic illness to describe their everyday living experience when their disability or illness results in a reduced amount of energy available for productive tasks. Spoons are an intangible unit of measurement used to track how much energy a person has throughout a given day. Each activity "costs" a certain number of spoons, which will only slowly be replaced as the person "recharges" through rest or other activities that do not require (or even refill) spoons. A person who runs out of spoons loses the ability to do anything other than rest. One of the tenets of the spoon theory is that people with disabilities or chronic illness must plan their daily activities to conserve their "spoons," while healthy, able-bodied, and/or neurotypical people have a "never-ending supply of spoons" and thus have never needed to worry about running out.[1] Because healthy people do not feel the impact of spending spoons for mundane tasks such as bathing and getting dressed, they may not realize the amount of energy that chronically ill or disabled people may have to get through the day. [2] Spoons are widely discussed within the autoimmune, disabled and other communities,[3][4] but the concept of spoons is otherwise considered a neologism.

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She closed her speech with reading her essay "The Spoon Theory". Here she is live reading ...

I think this is the link to the spoon story. Hope it makes sense.

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It's a way to explain to others what living with a disease that also includes chronic fatigue. It's a good way to understand what we go through every day and that jumping in the tub for example, is so much more.