Imagine seeing one of these and believing you're so special that you don't drain other people's social batteries. So you get offended when you learn that you do.
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Mine would always be red.
Well maybe if you remember to plug it in every once in awhile
So that's what I was doing wrong, just needed to use a plug to recharge!
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Ive been considering getting one of these honestly. as an introvert there are just some days where I really don't want to talk to people but retail doesn't care about that and I need money. at least having some kind of gague seems better than just glowering and hoping i don't have to deal with small talk
You'd just be drawing more attention to yourself... Or inviting a challenge
I'd rather take that then yet another soulless 'how are you today'
You don't think people would go "aww how come you are down? Let me cheer you up"?
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"let me fix that for you"
- drags it to positive
imagine flirting with someone and she slides her genderfluid pronoun pin from she/her to he/they
That would be awesome for a person with a compatible gender. Like, you are so interesting and attractive I'm willing to expand my horizons.
Thats gotta be the funniest fucking trans joke I have seen in A LONG TIME.
IM NOT BEING SARCASTIC BTW, I MEAN THIS. God I wish I could give awards...
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isn't that how batteries work though
I wouldn’t take it as a slight. If they’re like me, any social interaction, even a pleasant one drains my battery
I was thinking about gamifying spoon theory in a similar manner.
It's in Balatro style. Normally, you have a limited number of spoons each day, which you need to spend on doing things. If you overspend one day, it will raise your burnout levels and your meltdown chance, as well as having less spoons for the next few days. However you can gain various extra spoons and/or kitchen utensils, so you can have a better chance at surviving the day.
Isn't spoon theory just a convoluted way of saying you have limited energy for daily life activities?
Yes. Why spoons? Makes no sense.
I think it is a case of using a purposefully absurd metaphor because more straight forward ones are too obviously in conflict with basic immutable, toxic aspects of people's belief systems (drilled and blasted through in their childhoods) that function to labotomize their empathy for the hardships of others.
You know how like other cultures use fairy tales and myths to talk about taboos or impossible truths so does "western" culture use the absurd framework of spoons to talk about the "impossible" state of being incapable of what the ruling class demands of us daily.
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From the wiki, the idea comes from an essay that somebody has written about a conversation they had with a friend about the struggles of chronic illness. The conversation took place at a restaurant, and she grabbed the spoons for use in a metaphor because there were spoons nearby. She gave her friend a set of spoons, and every time her friend mentioned doing a task, she took a spoon away.
It could have been anything, but spoons happened to be at hand and she wanted to make a physical representation of an abstract concept. The essay resonated with people, so spoons became entrenched. And now I hear people say that they're all out of spoons to express the idea that they've done all that they can that day.
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Yes but for some reason when you tell people you don't have energy they don't believe you. Because they think mental energy is an infinite resources you can just force out or something
I'm a big proponent of fork theory.
Basically, fork this shit we are all forking forked.
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I've actually bought some of these for some autistic children I used to work with. It gave them agency, even if they weren't able to communicate it verbally.
Looks like various places sell them, here's an Etsy one I found: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1596896586/my-social-battery-funny-lapel-pin-hard
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I’d quite like one of these so I can adjust it down when someone says “happy Friday”.
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At first I read it as "Sorry to be a brother..." It's hard to be a sibling sometimes.
Imagine a barista with a pin that says "Here are some of the soft skills that this job demands and which I lack."
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