Autistic Enough

If you don't know what "Spoon Theory" is, you've probably at least seen it mentioned -- maybe someone saying "I don't have enough spoons to do this right now," or "If you have the spoons, could you help me understand?" Without context, it sounds like nonsense, but if you look to the original source , it's an incredibly powerful piece of writing, and a brilliant way to explain disability to able-bodied individuals. "Spoon Theory" originated as a way to explain chronic illness: when the author's friend asked her what it was like to live with Lupus, the author (Christine Miserandino) handed her 12 spoons. Miserandino then said that every task that day would cost one spoon, and asked her friend to decide how to spend her spoons that day. They walked through this hypothetical day, making decisions about how spoons would be spent. Sometimes, the friend had to be reminded of tasks that were so easy easy that she usually didn't e...