By Photography by The first thing Selma Blair says is “How are your spoons?” and I feel myself relax just a little. It’s the last Friday of September, and I am across from her in the sitting room of her house.
Blair is wearing riding boots and a linen shirt, her bleached blonde bob hanging above the collar. “I can’t believe I went my whole career without ever being nervous for an interview,” she says as we sit down.
Until now, that is. Her voice tilts and crashes on different syllables before lifting up again, marked by the spasmodic dysphonia that accompanies a flare of .
Yes, she seems nervous.So the spoons: are a shorthand way for chronically ill and disabled people to explain and ask each other how much energy they have on a given day.
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