Can you make a sandwich?

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Earl of Sandwich lent his name to this great fast food topic

I already answered this topic in my menu post in this forum. But my own sandwiches actually suck. My ex husband, NT, is the better cook, as he was the primary meal maker for his six younger siblings. (His father was out of the picture and his mother was drunk a lot).

Yeah, but the story says he didn't MAKE it, but described it!

I can barely cook at all. Bacon and eggs are about the only animal products I know how to cook with a reasonable degree of success. I know how to follow instructions on frozen dinners, but I despise those things. And to think, I'm going to try living on my own in a few days...

I can make things if I'm not caught up in something else. I'm prone to forgetting that I made them, though. Things tend to get left in the toaster/oven or on the countertop a lot...

I can cook pretty good.
Whatever i make has to have lots of spices and has to be crispy.
The main thing in my meals is lots of crispy baked meat.
I am kind of a perfectionist when i cook and can't stand it not being perfect.
In the last few years i stopped eating fastood and such alltogether.
What i make is alsways very tastefull.

But i tend to stick to a very narrow range of foods.
I don't eat fish period.
Don't like to cook dishes wich don't involve alot of spices.
There always have to be 2 pieces of meat per person or alot of meat simply.
I never revolve dishes around something other than meat.

I can cook, it's one of my specialties.

I can't cook, but I can make a sandwich.

Which 'wich was which topic

My source said "lent" as in "his name could be used." But you are right, he did not create the convenience food. Funny name, though; I wonder what it might have been called had the Earl been somewhere else?

There's not many physical actions tied in with functions/operations; I sit here and move my fingers. There's also no routine I inducted from an early age, I've used a computer for a long time, and I have a routine.

I cannot make a sandwich for the same reason I cannot drive a car, make a bed, etcetera.

It's an autistic disorder thingy; I know it's an Asperger's thingy too in some cases, I'm interested in seeing if it's as global in Asperger's as it's in autistic disorder, but I don't think it is.

You understand the principles involved.. thats evident. So where exactly is the trouble coming in? What is it about the process that causes you difficulty?

Physically starting each step; think of each step as if you were about to cut a finger off, and that shows how uncomfortable and impossible it is. It'd probably be possible for me to cut my fingers off, actually, in comparison to doing the aforementioned sandwich making.

O, and I also understand the principles of flight; this doesn't mean I can fly.

Judging from the list of tasks you feel are involved in making a sandwich, it would appear you are overcomplicating the task. Such a task does not have to involve so many subroutines within the main part of the mission. Try cutting out the whole toasting aspect. Do it sans butter. That sort of thing. Get someone else to do the slicing. Buy ready sliced cheese. There are manifold ways it can be done, and no part of the process has to be dangerous or painful or stressful.

I'm fairly "high-functioning", so I can grab one piece of bread by itself and eat that if someone isn't around to make a sandwich for me; I get by. "Low-functioning" people cannot even do that. A little while ago there was a young autistic girl around here who starved to death because her family didn't care for her, and they left her to fend for herself; the parents are in jail, which is cool.

Anything more than a couple of steps, and it equates to pain and an impossibility; it's just how it goes.

If a person can talk at length about a specialised area of interest, surely they can have a normal conversation?

For God's sake, of all the places I go, I'd expect at least the people on this site to realise that just because you can do x, it doesn't follow that you can do y.

I am a good cook and I enjoy cooking. I first had an interest in it when I was 6 and I used to make up recipes. Some of them turned out nicely: the banana chocolate pudding was a big success.

Try breaking it down further. You can grab a piece of bread and eat it. Assumably you can grab another bit afterwards if you are still hungry, and these would be two small and seperate events, neither particularly stressful. If you were to grab another food stuff and eat it, after eating the first piece, but before eating the second piece, then you have effectively ingested a sandwich. Then its just a matter of bringing the three simple events together into a single simple event.

Well, it is HARD to fathom how a person can use a computer and not be able to make a sandwich. Driving a car IS different. I could understand why you could use a computer and not drive, but make a sandwich?!?!? Comeon!

BTW As for making a bed, there are a LOT of different ways. I could see someone having problems because of speed, physical ability, dexterity, etc... But spreading something on slices of bread, or putting meat between?!?!?

And daniel says he is very high functioning, and then says something like this that makes people wonder.