#spoons — Public Fediverse posts

#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingAfternoonTeaAndABunNotNews; #IT's #DefinitelyNotNews and #SomeWeather...

We have #Scones and #Coffee...

#When is a #Cake; #NotACake...?

We're #MostlyCloudy... #InTheCloud and #IT's also #StillJollySunny in #TheOutside...

#CyborgOrangeJesus has #Approved #ThisMessage

🧙🧁🤖:wolfparty:🤖🧁🧙 | :fediverse:​🦹:PirateBadge:​🦄​:PirateBadge:​🦹:fediverse:

#WeHaveSpoons #LotsAndLots #Spoons #TooOldForALTText #NoAgeVerificationRequired

Doing it on my own…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/doing-it-on-my-own/

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to MEAction Network (https://www.meaction.net/) and Visible (https://www.makevisible.com/) for the Visible band I won last month 👍 Having had ME/CFS for over 15 years I thought I knew everything about pacing but the Visible band has even taught this old dog some new tricks. Very cool 😎

#MECFS #MEAction #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigue #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #ChronicIllness #CFS #Spoons #Spoonie #Pacing #Health #Visible #Visibleband

Ornate spoons, Lithuania, 19th century AD?

https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/1931186/ornate-spoons-lithuania-19th-century-ad

@actuallyadhd @autistics

Ever had one of those days where, it's been so frelling long that you've forgotten what it's like to not be in burnout but you're also just mad at everything because there's no way out of burnout?

No official diagnosis & your GP threw out the preliminary test that said you're a good candidate for autism that you got years ago. The waiting list is impossibly long so by the time you:
1) Pluck up the dice / spoons to face the GP (I'm still working on it 😣)...
2) Get an appointment & (by a miracle) maybe still have the dice / spoons...
3) Actually persuade the GP an AuDHD diagnosis is what you need...
4) Jump through whatever hoops to get the preliminaries sorted...
5) Get the green light for getting a diagnosis...

... You'll be waiting so long, you won't need it anymore as you're too old to work & are on minimum pension.

My messed up bodyclock doesn't help either.

Oh, it's you Depression... 😫... Just what I need 😡😩.

I hate it when I give myself reality checks 😔.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic
#MindFog #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons
#SelfCare #Depression
#Life #Sleep #Insomnia #SleepProblems

Dear Old Git Time,

Please rewind, hold your horses, slow down, chill, take a break, hit pause, back it up, go back a bit, and a bit more, give me a chance, calm down dear, for the love of sanity STOP!

Yours Sincerely,
Tired of Always Losing Huge Chunks of My Day

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #TimeBlindness #ExecutiveDysfunction #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons

#FotoVorschlag 'Besteck'
Besteckkunde im Inverewe House, Schottland

#NikonD5600 #Nikon D5600 | 16mm | f/2.8 | 1/80s | 18/09/2019

#hess_photography #Photography #Fotografie #Cutlery #Utensils #Tableware #Spoons #Vintage

Heyas, not had time for socials today. I'm still fighting a ridiculous fatigue bug. I've also been slowly getting back into #pyrography this week and considering products etc.

I've had a kinda planning session with wifey, so that I have a slow, logical approach, to work around my "health" and writing.

These are my latest #spoons.

But I've just been using a spreadsheet and researching other aspects and now I have a headache. So it's time for meds and sleep already.

#woodwork #handmade

Shame – part 2

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/shame-part-2/

@actuallyadhd @autistics

My getting up has slipped into the afternoons & I'm not happy about it.
Especially as in a few days I'll have to be up before 07:00 to be able to spend the day on an outing with friends. 🫣

Stricter morning routine?
- Alarm goes, switch on radio or preselected podcast instead of noticing the Mastodon notifications so I don't vanish down a 40+ notification hole?
🤔 … 🤔 In theory very easy to do, in practice very difficult to stick to, as my AuDHD screams for comfort from not being ready to face the day.

- Swap chores around with things I enjoy, want to get stuck into?
My big worry is that once I start the thing I want to do I will ignore all cues for stopping & doing the 'must do' tasks.

One possible fix for ignoring cues, is have lunch be the cut off point as I, like a lot of critters can be greatly motivated by food.
Current problem, lunch is around 18:00 give or take an hour & as I'm painfully aware of it being evening my brain & body default to evening mode, time to read or ideally, relax so those 'must do' tasks have pretty much a zero chance of happening.

I guess, I might be spending some time working this one out this afternoon / evening. I don't mind spending my evenings messing with dilemmas like this, as long as I can shove a movie I enjoy on whilst I'm doing it 🙂.
… That's if I remember 😅.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic
#Hyperfocus #TimeBlindness #ExecutiveDysfunction
#MindFog #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons #LackOfFocus #SelfCare

Trying to find the #spoons to create a post #criticizing an #advocate that’s #stealing content from other #advocates. It’s difficult right now.

Trying to find the #spoons to create a post #criticizing an #advocate that’s #stealing content from other #advocates. It’s difficult right now.

Trying to find the #spoons to create a post #criticizing an #advocate that’s #stealing content from other #advocates. It’s difficult right now.

Trying to find the #spoons to create a post #criticizing an #advocate that’s #stealing content from other #advocates. It’s difficult right now.

Equity will always benefit disabled people over equality. Equality's default is a society built for non disabled folks only. Equity listens to specific needs and accommodations. 🥄🥄🥄

#Disabled #SpoonTheory #Autistic #Neurodivergent #disability #Spoons #Neurodivergence #Equity

https://www.europesays.com/it/309327/ Bending Spoons sceglie le banche per la quotazione a Wall Street: obiettivo S&P500 per l’unicorno italiano delle app #Acquisizioni #Affari #app #aziende #banche #bending #BendingSpoons #Business #capitale #consorzio #corriere #dollari #dovrebbero #entrare #eventbrite #far #fonti #goldman #GoldmanSachs #GoldmanSachsMorgan #investitori #IT #Italia #Italy #jp #JpMorgan #morgan #spoons #street #valutazione #wall #WallStreet

Check your #SocialBattery and show it to others! At the #QuietCube they have these nifty 3D printed indicators. Highly recommended if you need to budget your #spoons.

#spoontheory #AdhdBrain #39c3

I think I am seriously out of #spoons. 😵‍💫 I’m going back to my hotel and watch some streams.

#spoontheory #39c3

Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons

https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/developing-hardwax-oil/

#HackerNews #foodsafe #finish #wooden #spoons #woodworking #DIY #craft

@actuallyadhd @autistics

I really wish my Mam wasn't such a technophobe. Doubly annoying that she lives so far away & triply so that she doesn't ask one of her more tech savvy friend's to help her get to grips with her phone.

The flip side is that she's the only person who phones me so I have no way to verify if all the phone call woes are her accidentally triggering things by touching buttons or things on screen (I can imagine her holding the phone slightly away from her ear so the in-call screen is displayed) & putting herself on mute or me on hold.

Is it her or has my phone, network or the Lineage OS developed problems?

After today's particularly Mute & Hold heavy call, or calls - I'd have to hang up & phone her again & again to get back to having a conversation instead of hearing nothing or being on hold - I hope she will take my strong suggestion of asking one, or some of her friends to help her.

I was hoping she would be coming over for xmas or new year's, giving me a chance to check her phone, maybe minimize google spying & if I can figure out how to be patient enough show her how to use her phone whilst knowing she won't remember or will struggle to remember.
I'd also have to hope I can still fathom how phones running android OS work as it's been several years.

I don't have the spoons to go visit her & with the festively terrible (non-existant) public transport between hers & the nearest hotel ensuring my spoon tank is permanently empty for the duration so it's probably not a good idea.
Last year I left her's on xmas day just before we were going to have dinner. Walking back to the hotel in tears & having snacks instead of a good meal. I do not recommend as it's probably my worst xmas & would not like a repeat. 😔😢😞.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons #SelfCare #Technophobia #TechEducation #TechFails #EpicTechFails #Enshittification

#PreFlightCheck

:fediverse: #Pew: #FreshPotOfCoffee - Check ✅️
:fediverse: #Pew: #Antonov-#AN225: #Downloaded - Check ✅️
:fediverse: #Pew: #Playlist #Confirmed - Check ✅️

And, #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool...

With #Bullets; #LotsAndLots of #Bullets... And, #Spoons...!

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🛫☕️️🍪🦄🍪☕️🛬

@actuallyadhd @autistics

Really need to get to bed before midnight tonight, or I turn into a gremlin or something 🤷.

I need to start reclaiming my mornings as it would be nice to get to about lunch time & actually have accomplished some thing. Just simple things maybe but things like a bit of house cleaning, going for a walk, some reading & maybe a little bit of writing & drawing.

Maybe it could boost my confidence & make it possible to volunteer somewhere, even if the local volunteering options are only charity shop work.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #MindFog #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons #LackOfFocus #SelfCare #Depression #Life #Sleep #SleepProblems

Just watched a goodly short by a content creator who struggled with long-COVID for about 2 years.

5 things healthy people take for granted

For anyone who wants to read the text, rather than the short, here's a transcript we generated quickly from the audio using Subtitle Edit. (It only needed one word change and a couple of minor apostrophe edits.)

I haven't done one of these videos in ages, but here are five things that healthy people take for granted.

Number one is being able to do everyday basic things. Getting out of bed, climbing the stairs, cooking, every single everyday thing. Healthy people can just do all of it without questioning any of it. Healthy people are just able to function normally in everyday life.

Number two is that most healthy people can just move their bodies whenever they want. Sorry, what do you mean that you can just go on a run or exercise or move? With all that excess energy they can just push their body to the extreme without any consequences. Unlike like a couple of days maybe recovery time.

Healthy people can just make plans and schedule in a coffee date for a few weeks' time without even like thinking about it. Because of course they're gonna be able to make it. They just plan and then they just do.

Okay, they never have to think of spoons. Only when like they're doing the dishwasher or eating soup. Healthy people do not need to track or ration their energy. So they don't need a language for it. There's no budgeting their energy for different tasks. Spoons are merely pieces of metal they find in their cutlery drawer.

Most of the time, healthy people do not need to advocate for their own health. Most might not even know what the term medical gaslighting is or they may have never experienced it. There's no anxiety around doctors' appointments. They're not fighting anyone for answers or support. It's such a privilege to be believed and receive empathy.

So yeah, if you're healthy and you might not even think about these things or perhaps take them for granted, just know that there are people who are chronically ill or perhaps have poor health that do not have these privileges.

#spoons #spoonie #SpoonTheory #health #PhysicalHealth #MentalHealth

Edit: If you saw the hilarious typo we made before we quickly edited it out, shhhhh 😅🤭🩷

#Now...

#MakeYourOwn: #ProfiteroleCastle...!

#ToMake: #ProfiteroleCastle #YouWillNeed...

• #Profiteroles;
• #LotsAndLots of #Profiteroles; and,
• #Spoons...

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What are you doing to refuel yourself? #life #health #energy #spoons #spoontheory #dailyprompt #writer #blog

http://invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/09/20/daily-prompt-energy-9-20-25/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

@actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic

Well, life with no schedule & no solid plans has hit a small bolder today.
I had a vague plan to finally give my Lineage OS a massive update (going through most of the rigmarole of installing fresh OS procedure 😰) & updating a laptop that's been neglected for several months & finally Linux-ifying my Surface that has been missing for many months (possibly a year or more).

The small bolder = my phone, thankfully, reminding me that today is library day, swap & renew books. Renew I could do online but swap means prep for peopling mode, get changed & step outside.

Today I started feeling fine but my lack of enough sleep soon caught up, so me & my brain just cringed & thought, "hell no!" to the reminder, but needs must.

I'm glad I managed to just get on with it rather than waste ½ - 1 hour trying to rejig a planned day. It meant I could just get on with it.

I'm back from the library & a quick look in the secondhand bookshop / cafe where I found two books to take home. Got back home, still feeling knackered but also feeling much better.

I doubt I've got the spoons to sort my phone but laptop is doable & if I've still got the time & mood to do it, maybe sort the Surface.

Oops! More than I was expecting to prattle 😅. Guess my autism is in a talky mood.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Life #Sleep #Insomnia #SleepProblems #MindFog #Burnout #Spoons

@actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic

Today's plans got chucked in the bin last night.
First I messed up, then my guts kept me awake for 1½ hours. Still had a few things planned but I'll try & see if today can be used to begin weaning me off plans.
If in can wean myself off plans, maybe I can begin to learn to be a bit more spontaneous, or so goes the theory.

First, try wrapping my head around the 'be kind / gentle with yourself' mantra as I always fall into the trap of, '-but this needs doing, or I can quickly do this, & that & probably this thing!
Next thing I know, it's taken me 6 - 8 hours not including food breaks to get these three, quick & simple tasks done & I'm as relaxed as mouse in a trap, being stalked by a cat.

Here's hoping I can put a crack in that self-destructive cycle.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons
#Depression #Sleep #SleepProblems

Sometimes, I just wanna scream…

…into the void and hope it won’t scream back at me…

There are days when you try your hardest. You didn’t have the best sleep. You had to get up and get going. So you gathered all the spoons you could find and you went ahead, hoping that you’d have enough energy to last the day (even though you knew you could probably use several more due to the things on the program for that day).

You do the things that you had planned. You help out where you can. Things seem to wotk out well, so you even feel a little bit pleased about yourself. “See, I did this and I did well, they can’t take this little victory away from me” 💪🏻 , or so you’re inclined to think. And then… Then something happens, something triggers, something disrupts the feel-good vibes you were rollin’ with and it all crashes down hard… 😖

[…]

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/sometimes-i-just-wanna-scream/

@actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic

Waking up & wondering why my bedside lamp is on & why my phone isn't next to it?
Especially as I remember putting phone next to it & switching the lamp off.
Hello, life stresses. What's happening now?

Also, why does my body default to 6 hours sleep? When it clearly needs more? And yet it won't let me install the Nap Time plugin I so desperately need.

Result: permanent dice / spoon deficit

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Sleep #Insomnia #SleepProblems #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons

Feeling wierdly inspired to make a schedule or roster. Problem is I know I'm either, A) going to try it & fail within minutes, hours, days or at some point in the second week or, B) will find myself unable to try it because I've forgotten there's things I need to do that don't fit or because I just don't have the dice/spoons/battery.

It is of course typical that I'm settling down to have supper & watch a film before making an attempt to get to bed before 00:30 instead of after 02:30 when.this urge has to strike. I would like to be able to enjoy my mornings without sleeping or dozing through them.
Fingers 🤞 the movie & my supper distract me enough to leave it till a more sensible time.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Hyperfocus #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons #Focus #Life #Sleep #SleepProblems

Just blogged! This time about a lovely badge I got sent. A #Spoonbot which decoratively gives an indication of how many remaining spoons the wearer possesses! #opensource #oshwa #spoons #socialbattery
https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/04/lovely-friends-make-lovely-things-steam.html

I may have survived the mind-fog-bank that owned me for a couple of days but I'm getting peeved off with this mental haze.
I'm still being controlled but if I'm able to focus on what I want to do I can get it done.
It's taking extra spoons to get there.

#Life #MindFog #Spoons #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic

Okay, it seems I used up all my #spoons yesterday and making #breakfast is just too much for me now. So, #cornflakes and #instantCoffee it is... 😔

Shit. I need a spon to eat cornflakes. 🤪

#spoontheory #noSpoons #depression

#ListeningTo #Spoons – No More Growing Up (on "Arias & Symphonies") https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=1uEusJR7qmM #Uhn! #ReadyRecordsLR027 #Canada #1982 #Electronic #Rock #SynthPop #NewWave

A lot of my long-term action #spoons have correspondingly long #cool-off #times too.

Most of those #burned off as I watched my plans disintegrate in the debacles of #trauma2022. Some are growing back. Slowly. Surely. Our way.

In the meantime, the #ashes have fueled a resurgent #growth in short- and mid-term action spoons. And the growth #cycles are in full-on mode for all the established ones, too.

So #praise the #devs on that one.

A lot of my long-term action #spoons have correspondingly long #cool-off #times too.

Most of those #burned off as I watched my plans disintegrate in the debacles of #trauma2022. Some are growing back. Slowly. Surely. Our way.

In the meantime, the #ashes have fueled a resurgent #growth in short- and mid-term action spoons. And the growth #cycles are in full-on mode for all the established ones, too.

So #praise the #devs on that one.

A lot of my long-term action #spoons have correspondingly long #cool-off #times too.

Most of those #burned off as I watched my plans disintegrate in the debacles of #trauma2022. Some are growing back. Slowly. Surely. Our way.

In the meantime, the #ashes have fueled a resurgent #growth in short- and mid-term action spoons. And the growth #cycles are in full-on mode for all the established ones, too.

So #praise the #devs on that one.

A lot of my long-term action #spoons have correspondingly long #cool-off #times too.

Most of those #burned off as I watched my plans disintegrate in the debacles of #trauma2022. Some are growing back. Slowly. Surely. Our way.

In the meantime, the #ashes have fueled a resurgent #growth in short- and mid-term action spoons. And the growth #cycles are in full-on mode for all the established ones, too.

So #praise the #devs on that one.

A lot of my long-term action #spoons have correspondingly long #cool-off #times too.

Most of those #burned off as I watched my plans disintegrate in the debacles of #trauma2022. Some are growing back. Slowly. Surely. Our way.

In the meantime, the #ashes have fueled a resurgent #growth in short- and mid-term action spoons. And the growth #cycles are in full-on mode for all the established ones, too.

So #praise the #devs on that one.

This morning I (almost) invisibly mended hole in my stretch leggings

Just sewed a headband (out of a scuba material!! It's v stretchy and slippy and goes through an Overlocker like silk !? ) and made some Rock Cakes (currently in the oven).

This morning I prepped some French bread (currently proving), and now planning dinner..

Yesterday I struggled all day to watch a 15 min instructional video on youtube

Also TWO loads of laundry

Who the hell am I ?

#ADHD #Autisim #HyperActivity #Spoons

MIDI Spoon Piano Is Exactly What You Think It Is - Pianos traditionally had keys made out of ivory, but there’s a great way to avoid ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/midi-spoon-piano-is-exactly-what-you-think-it-is/ #capacitivetouch #musicalhacks #midisynth #keyboard #spoons #music #midi

MIDI Spoon Piano Is Exactly What You Think It Is https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/midi-spoon-piano-is-exactly-what-you-think-it-is/ #capacitivetouch #MusicalHacks #midisynth #keyboard #spoons #music #midi

#LongDay. Smoke detector by the elevator goes off during the service (the children's minister having used matches). Deacons and I rush out. Turn it off and keep it off with rosewood cane. Head-scratching ensues. Surprised to learned that the system is a hodgepodge. Code? What Code? (Nothing like potential exposure to liability to light a fire under someone's ass). And, and, and...! #Family conference. Brother and his wife Get A Clue about Mother's mercifully gentle decline.
#Spoons

#BraceYourselves | #BraceBrace...

A #LongStory in #ManyParts with #MusicalInterludes and #OtherStuff along #TheWay...

#IT will #TakeSomeTime to #PortIT all over from #SpaceKarenX's US$44bn #VanityProject; so, #BearWithMe... 🧸​ Or, #Not...

#IT won't #AffectTheOutcome; #IT's #AlreadyHappened...

#IT'll #HappenAgain...

#HoldOn to your #Spoons and #GetYourself #WoolReady...

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https://twitter.com/PearRaider/status/1312509422048997378

@vlrny that is very well put and sounds familiar. Ideally we can be heard when throw our hands in the air and say #ImDone or I'm outta #spoons when we feel that brain blowout coming. Don't always happen though. Restful #processing to you

bonus #2 Ceramic Hello sample that forms the basis for this track:

#CeramicHello #ImEx #TheAbsenceOfACanary #Spoons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPrxXHTyic

Diagnostic scheduled, new therapist contacted, test results from earlier thing requested, and another appointment scheduled...

So that's all the Papa Otter and adulting tasks out of the way (along with far too many #spoons for my liking.)

Today's #SelfCare day too. I don't wanna. But I'll feel better after a shower and shave.

Yes, I schedule that. If I don't, I'll find some rabbit hole, work bender, life, whatever, and forget.

#Neurodivergent #BrainWeasels
#ToDo

I think she's dead...

#vintageads #silverware #spoons #xmasads