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.
You've just charged my battery!
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!
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'
just reply with “no, i’m not”
Do it the German way and just trauma dump. I mean if they didn't care they shouldn't have asked.
In Germany "how are you" is also smalltalk but you are not expected to lie. Just keep it short.
"Wie geht's?"
"Nicht so gut gerade und bei dir?"
"let me fix that for you"
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
I’d quite like one of these so I can adjust it down when someone says “happy Friday”.
At first I read it as "Sorry to be a brother..." It's hard to be a sibling sometimes.
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
I need this exact pin. You can save some money and make it without any moving parts.
"how are you doing?"
"I'm alright"
"Oh, just alright?"
Social battery falls to zero
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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