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Spoon theory : ウィキペディア英語版 | Spoon theory The spoon theory is an analogy used by some people with a disability and people with chronic illness to describe their everyday living experience when their disability or illness (physical or mental) presents 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, chronic illness, or mental ilness 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. 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. Spoons are widely discussed within the autoimmune, disabled and other communities, but the concept of spoons is otherwise considered a neologism. == Origin ==
The term ''spoons'' was coined by Christine Miserandino on her website, But You Don't Look Sick. In the article "The Spoon Theory" she recalled a conversation in which her close friend and roommate asked her a vague question about what having lupus feels like. As the two were in a diner, Miserandino spontaneously took spoons from nearby tables to use as a visual aid. She handed her friend the spoons and then asked her to describe the events of a typical day, taking a spoon away after each hypothetical activity. In this way, she demonstrated that spoons, or energy, must be rationed to avoid running out before the end of the day. Miserandino also asserted that it is possible to exceed one's daily limit, but that doing so means "borrowing" from the future, and may result in not having enough spoons the next day.〔
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