Disability LARPing.
Spoon theory has become popular recently. From Wikipedia:
“The
spoon theory is a metaphor describing the amount of physical and/or mental energy that a person has available for daily activities and tasks, and how it can become limited. It was coined by U.S. writer and blogger Christine Miserandino in 2003 as a way to express how it felt to have
lupus; explaining the viewpoint in a diner, she gave her friend a handful of
spoons and described them as units of energy to be spent performing everyday actions, representing how
chronic illness forced her to plan out days and actions in advance so as to not run out of energy.”
For people who are disabled or dealing with chronic illness, it is a sound metaphor. But it has also been adopted and co-opted by every munchie, malingerer suffering from self-diagnosed ailments or conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue etc. (these diseases, and things like POTS and EDS, do exist. People really have them. But diagnosis is symptom-based and there isn’t a definitive test for them. Which makes them very popular among the illness fakers. Of the plethora of people claiming these ailments, a small fraction are legit. Very small fraction.)
Being a spoonie or munchie seems to go hand in hand with being a TIF.