Ego depletion isn't really the same thing. Ego depletion is about doing things you don't want to do or not doing something you want to do. It implies we have li

Ego depletion isn't really the same thing. Ego depletion is about doing things you don't want to do or not doing something you want to do. It implies we have limited bits of self-control. Spoons theory is more metaphor, trying to describe the penalty on both time, energy and capacity a disability applies to your day to day to people who have an excess of both to handle the mundane. One problem I have is that spoons theory says, "You have 20 spoons per day, I have 5." While the end result is the same, it's more that getting dressed in the morning requires 1 spoon for me and 4 spoons for someone with a disability. Similarly, other mundane activities require four times the amount of time and energy. Also you can borrow spoons from the next day, either by skipping sleep or just outright pushing through an activity well beyond your disability's limit. However, then you have less time and energy the next day. It's definitely in line with normalizing deviance. Most people who can hold down a job and an independent life with a disability are operating at their limits. They have no spare spoons for emergencies or unexpected events. The people around then normalize that and then become surprised when "one small thing" blows everything out of whack for two days. That person had no more spoons to spare. They borrowed from the next day, and now their Fibro has them bedridden, the stress triggered a manic episode, etc.