spoon theory- I feel like this really applies to autism!

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wow I can really apply this to my life, I feel like this really applies to autism and what it is like and why though I am capable I often hae trouble doing the basic stuff. what do others think?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn5IBsm49Rk[/youtube]

Im new to spoon theory - l look at it as belief.

not sure I understand what you mean

I read that in a blog somewhere. Now it's been made into a video too.

Love it.

As somewhat with a chronic illness on top of Autism, they are NOTHING alike.

I agree somewhat, that was my first reaction - I'd take just autism any day as that is NOT as severe in limitations on my life as chronic illness is.
But I think it is a fitting analogy. I do have a storage of social energy that can be used up and then I get to the point that I'm not functioning really well, in terms of "normality". It's good just getting people to recognize that "ordinary" things can be exhausting for many reasons.

Personally for me it fits perfect to depression and by autism to the overload. I can stand some noise, but more and more and I get overload.

I find it fits my experience of overload as well. It also fits my ability to get things done in general, but that's impacted by at least five different things (autism, ADHD, fibromyalgia, depression, and circumstance) so I am not sure it is precisely autism on its own.

I've found the spoon theory very easy to relate to because it has matched how I experience things for much of my life. More recently, I've tried to take on more responsibilities and ended up having a fairly severe depressive episode (I was seriously considering hospitalization) and everything else I needed or wanted to do suffered. I am trying to work out what I can commit to and how often without wiping myself out multiple times per week.

For me it fits to explain how much stress, sensory input un expected change I can handle before I meltdown or shut down and how even the small things have to be broken into small steps when I do them.

I have a chronic illness and the spoon relates to it well but no to my AS.

In fact using spoons seems rather silly. I'd choose keys or something. You only have a certain amount of keys so you can only open a certain amount of doors and go a certain amount of places.

With a chronic illness you never seem to have enough keys. And you loose keys a lot, sometimes they break when you try to ope a door. But people assume you always have enough which is very irritating. I'm limited physically by my chronic illness way more than AS.

With AS, all the keys are bent so they're really hard to use and it's exhausting to open a door. And the longer I interact with people the more bent out of shape my keys become. So it limits me socially and exhausts me mentally (although sometimes physically but it's nothing to being in pain 24/7).

Not perfect, but I think that explains things a bit better. The theory could use some work though.

The spoon theory fits well for me, but I've been wanting to find a way to explain a generalization where there are both things I spend by choice, and things that are taken away from me.

It's not my choice when an ambulance comes down a road.

It is my choice to "spend" spoons, when I go shower.


Even as is the spoon theory is a good description for me.