Spoon Theory Meme
In a blog titled the spoon theory christine miserandino describes how she showed her friend what it s like to have lupus.
Spoon theory meme. Mar 15 2020 explore bydls s board the spoon theory followed by 1291 people on pinterest. Christine miserandino reads the spoon theory you guys have been asking for this for a long time. She and her friend were in a restaurant at the time and a spoon was easily available to use as a metaphor. Hell i grabbed spoons off of the other tables.
A spoonie is a person with an invisible illness or chronic pain. Once again i m feeling like an imposter lying in the darkness because light hurts me mildly high on pain killers that don t even make a dent in my joint pain and headache because of course i am faking it all baaabyyy. At that moment the spoon theory was born. You can find the original article here.
One of those things is spoon theory. People who could relate to the spoon theory started to refer to themselves as spoonies. Spoons are a visual representation used as a unit of measure in order to quantify how. Thank you to them for having me and to stealth awareness for making the video.
Spoon theory was created by christine miserandino in a 2003 essay she described using the metaphor to describe to a friend what it felt like to have a chronic invisible illness in her case lupus. She looked at me slightly confused as anyone would when they are being handed a bouquet of spoons. The autoimmune disease often causes fatigue fever and joint pain. The spoon theory or spoon metaphor is a disability metaphor for a combination of ego depletion fatigue and other factors a neologism used to explain the reduced amount of mental and physical energy available for activities of living and productive tasks that may result from disability or chronic illness.
This is me reading the spoon theory live at a lupus symposium. Apr 19 2016 explore jess dodson s board spoon theory on pinterest. It was originally written by christine miserandino. The spoon theory explains how to cope with chronic illness using spoons as a metaphor for our limited energy supply.
See more ideas about spoon theory fibromyalgia chronic illness. See more ideas about spoon theory fibromyalgia invisible illness. This video is from the speaking appearance at the piedmont nc lfa on september 11 2010. I looked at her in the eyes and said here you go you have lupus.