Aspergers Challenged Support Group

Ok now adapt it to Asperger's. Saying hi to someone, looking at their face (eyes are impossible), answering the phone, etc, all use more spoons for us than for those not on the spectrum.

Now if only I had more spoons.

And if only people could understand. But I guess maybe we all feel that way and wish others could understand.

I'm also somebody with a chronic illness (fibromyalgia), so I have the article mentioned above bookmarked into my computer lol.

I think the analogy still does work better for chronic illness over something like Asperger's to the unaware person's mind though. I guess they can visualize someone having a smaller physical stamina bar better than visualizing someone having a smaller social stamina bar. But the analogy can work for both if the person you're explaining this to is receptive to the general concept.