"People with disabilities for the most part get what you mean when you talk about not having capacity..."

s.e. smith @ Cuteifying Disability – this ain’t livin’ (via notemily) I might have linked this before? But it’s still awesome. (via criptheatrequeer)

I also want to add this quotation:

I have a hard time talking about these things in cute terms because these things are not cute. They are scary and frustrating and intimidating.

I like the language of ‘spoons’ because of the quantization, the idea that each task requires a discrete unit of energy. I also have a hard time with using it for myself because it doesn’t account for the importance of self-care in my life. It’s not so much that I have limited energy so much as that if I fail to perform adequate self-care, my energy will become limited. Then we get into issues of what constitutes self-care, because my self-care doesn’t necessarily look like your self-care, and oh, look, I suppose it’s time for me to write a blog post.

(via pastthestorm)

I’ve tried explaining my current situation using spoons but a lot of people don’t get it. So right now, I have sealed myself off from the world mostly and I’m letting that speak for me.