I've been reading and viewing the opinions of people with chronic illness that hate the spoon theory. Reasons they give are: 1. The spoon theory doesn't account for the fact that one day an action may take more "spoons" than another. 2. Some people have the opinion that you can "borrow" spoons from the next day. 3. It's been appropriated by people who don't have a specific set of conditions. And I understand that regardless of my take on this, there are still going to be people who feel that the spoon theory minimizes or trivializes their illness. I'm not sure how they communicate their day to day needs to the people around them, but they certainly despise this tool. I find it useful. 1. The spoon theory was designed as an EXAMPLE of how "energy" is dispersed throughout the day as a way to illustrate how every day activities most people don't even think about require some sort of physical investment. It does