![]() Instead, you get forks when you finish particular tasks.” The author suggested socializing, showering, and eating as examples of getting back forks upon task completion. ![]() ![]() However, unlike spoons, forks don’t replenish gradually over time. In 2014, the Thing of Things blog described a fork theory for mental illness: “Forks work somewhat like spoons, in that you have to pay varying amounts for tasks. Live a life filled with excitement, laughter, fun, and craziness, but do it in a way that works for you.” In 2017, a writer on the Chronically Healthy blog suggested that instead of focusing on sickness with spoon theory, we should “be a fork and stab life. When you are all out of forks, each ableist thing you say means I get to stab you really hard with a fork, and leave it stuck in your skin.” Fair enough, perhaps, but yikes! Every time you say something ableist to me, I take a fork away from you. She was talking about fork theory as described by blogger Jen Rose in 2018, but before we get to that version, let’s look at a few others that have popped up.Ĭade Leebron, who was not a fan of spoon theory, wrote in the American Literary Review in 2018: “Imagine that you wake up in the morning and I hand you twenty-five very sharp forks. The first time I encountered fork theory was on a post by Bipolar Me. I’ve gotta say, I’m loving the cutlery metaphors to represent mental illness life! Different versions of fork theory More recently, I came across fork theory, which we’ll look at in this post. ![]() In my 15 years working as a mental health nurse, I had never come across the concept of spoon theory I only learned about it once I started blogging. ![]()
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