obviously there's a difference btwn someone who cannot do a task Literally Ever and someone who can do it under great duress in an emergency but i feel like these conversations ignore that the latter person, if their entire life becomes "an emergency", is going to become the former person in about 2 weeks - 2 yrs depending. if you are the type of person who says "i can't prepare my own food" and really mean "i can force myself to prepare my own food if i would die otherwise" and you are forced to prepare your own food All The Time lest you die, how long do you think that "emergency" skill is actually going to last? and how many other skills are going to go down with it? or: what else is the person sacrificing, on purpose or not, to stay alive under those circumstances? it may be Almost Every Other Skill They Have. this is where things like "autistic regression" come from!
