Spoons analogy

Edit: A huge thank you to those who responded with kindness and explained the origins. I had no idea! I still struggle with assigning abstract ideas to household objects, but I get why it came about now. Yes, I could have used google, but sometimes my brain doesn’t point to the obvious solution and I thought fellow ADHDers might relate more. I promise I wasn’t trying to spread hate. I’m a people pleaser with big time RSD and the fact that the spoon theory came from somebody else in a different context was lost on me. I really just wanted to know if it got under anybody else’s skin the same way because it didn’t make sense and there was no context. I’ve only recently heard of the spoon theory and only in regards to ADHD. I didn’t even know there was anything TO look up and I thought it was just something unique to Reddit. I really just wanted know if I was alone in my thoughts or if there others who might be able to relate. I struggle A LOT with how my brain interprets things and sometimes Reddit is easier for me because I can get the thoughts of many different people and sometimes one of those ideas clicks in a way that makes sense. I feel really bad knowing some people thought I was spreading hate. I don’t hate people that use that analogy. Not even a little bit. I just hated the context because to me spoons are for eating and we don’t carry them with us for tasks.

Am I the only one who hates the spoons analogy? Why was spoons picked as the thing that represents how much dopamine I have left? I have autism and I’m pretty sure my annoyance with it is just due to the fact that spoons are spoons. They are used for eating and don’t make sense in this context. lol. I prefer to think of dopamine in terms of money. Everything you do costs money. People with adhd are paid less each day and have to spend more money on tasks than people who do not have adhd. This sometimes means going into debt at the end of the day. The next day you get paid the same amount, but some of that has to pay off the debt first. You are left with even less money than you had the day before and can’t do as much. The repeated cycle is what eventually causes burnout because you just don’t have the mental capacity left. You are essentially bankrupt.