Spoon Theory

Let\'s see a show of hands; who has heard of Spoon Theory?

<a href=\"http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spoon Theory</a> was coined by a woman named Christine Miserandino on her blog. She wrote an entry where she describes to a friend what living with lupus was like, using a unique metaphor where table spoons represent energy loss. You should really just <a href=\"http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/\" rel=\"nofollow\">read her entry</a> because I can\'t do it justice.

Since this entry was written, it traveled quickly across the chronic illness communities, and has been adopted by many other diseases to help explain themselves to healthy people. Even though it was written specifically with lupus in mind, many of the neurological/autoimmune illnesses share so many symptoms, it has become extremely useful to a wide variety of people suffering from numerous ailments, including Chronic Fatigue. It has become something of a doctrine to the chronically ill who have trouble being understood by the rest of society, and I wanted to pay tribute to the huge influence it has had with this self portrait.
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