2:16pm July 2, 2012

➸ Flutterfly Invasion: I am not a fan of spoon theory.

inflateablefilth:

transhumanisticpanspermia:

I feel it’s oversimplistic, condescending, and unhelpful.

Disabled people aren’t collections of spoons. They all face different, distinct challenges. And if I tell someone that I’m “out of spoons,” that won’t mean diddly-squat to them. They…

Yeah. I don’t like it that much actually in that it doesn’t apply cleanly to my life, and the original is… more pity-laden than anything I’d want to get across, despite being written by a disabled person. But often I have no better option. The reality is far too complex for me to describe quickly. So I sometimes use this.

And the idea that it’s (in a general sense) wrong to simplify communication kinda rubs me the wrong way as someone who finds communication hard.

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