Aspergers and (not) home-made chicken

Having read this again, I do not see Ethan's remark as  intentionally critical - depending on how he said it. Did he sound sarcastic?. I can imagine myself saying something similar. Of course, to someone without AS, this sort of comment might seem rude (this had never occurred to me before, but I now understand what you mean having read your blog post). I might say something like this without thinking, because, of course, chicken cannot be homemade in the sense that honey roasted carrots can be. And yet, maybe you had done something to the chicken, like put a sauce over it, or even cooked it from scratch. We on the spectrum often take things literally, and from a literal perspective, taking a raw chicken and cooking it in an oven is home-made cooking, because you did not simply take a ready-prepared chicken and re-heat it. 

Having read this again, I do not see Ethan's remark as  intentionally critical - depending on how he said it. Did he sound sarcastic?. I can imagine myself saying something similar. Of course, to someone without AS, this sort of comment might seem rude (this had never occurred to me before, but I now understand what you mean having read your blog post). I might say something like this without thinking, because, of course, chicken cannot be homemade in the sense that honey roasted carrots can be. And yet, maybe you had done something to the chicken, like put a sauce over it, or even cooked it from scratch. We on the spectrum often take things literally, and from a literal perspective, taking a raw chicken and cooking it in an oven is home-made cooking, because you did not simply take a ready-prepared chicken and re-heat it.