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[alexseanchai]

The forks model of disability.

You know how spoons are 'doing X thing costs Y spoons'? Forks are 'doing X thing costs Y forks up front but gains you Z forks on completion'. Basically. And this makes so much more sense in context of my lived experience.

Which I still like mage power metaphors better than kitchen utensil metaphors, but.

And I seem to be experiencing a shortage of MP. I'm sure I have plenty to spend the next hour and a half crocheting another coaster or two, or expanding upon one of my larger yarn projects, and still have enough to get to and from work and do all the work in between. But I have homework to do and NaNo to write. I think I have a solid idea that I can actually make words on now, but it requires rewatching an episode approximately every two thousand words; this is not a downside, it's just time-consuming. And I don't seem to have the MP to get going on either the homework or the watch-and-write. Which is a damned shame because once I get going I'm pretty sure (because like I said, forks model of disability fits my experience really well) I'll have the MP to keep going till I'm done or it's time for work.

Comments

[davidgillon]

Oh, that's interesting. I think Spoons probably works better for me overall, but the psych side of things definitely has aspects of Forks. Leaving that link open to show to various people.

[niqaeli]

I personally had this phenomenon pegged in my head to the chemistry reaction concept of energy of activation on spontaneous reactions: even spontaneous reactions that will proceed without additional energy being poured into the reaction sometimes require a certain amount of energy -- the energy of activation -- to get started. Once you get them going, they carry along happily without signficant further interference, but that initial barrier can be pretty costly. What you get out of the reaction, in this metaphor, are the final products.

(And of course then you also have non-spontaneous reactions which DO require energy to be poured in the entire time because they flat-out require more energy to occur than exists in the reactants.)

Anyway, though, yes, this is a useful look at it. I like some of the other metaphors out there better, but I will default to the more common ones for sake of common ground with a lot of folks.