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  Spoonie Culture and the Backlash of Misunderstanding from Other Generations Picture credit: Carenity.com Chronic Illness is difficult to explain without sounding like a medical dictionary at the best of times.  Especially when it comes to simply not knowing how to describe energy levels or the lack of focus, especially if you don’t have a diagnosis. Many like me have started to adopt the Spoon Theory to explain how much focus, energy, emotional strength and motivation we have. It was originally thought up by another who has a chronic disease, Christine Miserandino, who lives with Lupus - a disability where the defensive antibodies attack the body’s useful cells, thinking them a threat to the immune system.  This limits what they can accomplish on bad days compared to good ones, but it varies from person to person.  Struggling to explain this to her friend, Miserandino eventually gazed around the café they were at and started to explain using spoons from the avail...

  Harry and Meghan- The Reception to the Netflix Show Kevin Mazur/Getty Images The Royals have always had a strange relationship with the media. From the first broadcast, the Queen did to her Coronation being on television in 1953 to the Royal Family documentary that got hidden in the Royal Vaults for making the Royal family look ‘Too vulnerable and normal’ in 1969, at a time of social change and political unrest. However, we have come a long way since then. Or have we? Despite the efforts of multiple members of the Royal family to modernise it, some unconventional and outdated opinions still seem to be present from both the public and the Royal family themselves, perhaps a part of the turbulent history of the British monarchy. I even experienced this when asking a family member what they thought on the day of Harry and Meghan’s wedding as we were watching the broadcast. The opinion of the older member of my household seemed to be that “Meghan was too much like Wallis Simpson sinc...