#spoonie friend just made extraordinary observation:

Our daily struggles are less about "managing spoons" and more like dealing with a massive "global spoon shortage."

🤯

#burnout #spoonEconomics #society

Current brain use strategy
(would not recommend):

Use brain all morning until you feel physically gross.

Get really fucking high to stop brain feeling gross.

End up all zoomy chatty high.

Use brain again a whole lot more, but ineffectually, because...high.

Get really grumpy and frustrated and pretty much ruin everything that is nice and fun about being high. 🤦‍♀️

#spoonEconomics #brainfog #mmj

@vlrny

Get a lot of little spoons. A whole lot.

#spponies #spooneconomics

One of my spoonie friends just advised:

"Conserve thyself."

And that is my new fav phrase for pacing.

#spponies #spoonEconomics

After pondering carefully what absolutely needs to be done with my very limited spoons for the day....

I ignored all that and instead used a mop handle to bash a bunch of ice off the fire escape.

Winter will go away if I start hitting it with a big stick, yeah?

#priorities #spoonEconomics

@liambean This sounds very similar to my experience as well. Supports are either:
- unavailable
- not responsive in timely ways when my needs shift (multi-month lag when I crash)
- limited, and with the autism takes more spoons to adjust to the intrusion than I benefit from the help.

#spoonEconomics #asd #neurodivergent

- oooo and impossible to articulate when I am already in crisis. Like trying to teach someone CPR _while_ having a heart attack. 🤦

Oof. I should go do all that stuff I didn't get done yesterday. But the sunbeam lingers and so do I.

But ya know what? I am *not* doing nothing, I am building more spoons.

#spoonEconomics

Man! I had to go out for an appointment yesterday (and put on pants I tell ya, PANTS). It pretty much cost me all my spoons for the day, and interestingly made all my other lil daily self care things wobble, right down to keeping myself fed.

I am still in that precarious zone of: I can take care of myself, or I can get shit done; there isn't yet spoons for both.

#spoonEconomics