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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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No. Blindness is also a spectrum but not everyone is blind. There is a range of normal vision and someone is only blind if they fall outside of that range. However, two people who are deemed blind can have varying degrees of blindness and need varying degrees of assistance.
Although it would probably be fitting to describe it as a subset. If you look at vision, then it is a spectrum that includes everyone. Even blind people. If you are looking at blindness, then it is a subset of the vision spectrum that only includes people that meet certain other criteria, i.e. below a certain threshold of vision. Same for autism disorder. Every human is on a mentality spectrum, and autism is a subset of that.
This is how I understood the question, too.
That's a great comparison.
This is a pretty decent comparison. Not everyone can have ASD because then it can’t be classified as a disorder. There is a threshold for being diagnosed just as with vision impairment. Those who are diagnosed are on a spectrum from least debilitating to most.
Surely vision is a spectrum with everyone on it.
One end "better than 20-20" on the other "only darkness"
Vision yes, blindness no.
Vision is the opposite of blindness, no?
Surely if the spectrum exists for one it must exist for the other?
0 becomes 100 and 100 becomes zero
0% blind is perfect vision, 100% blind is no vision
Technical an common language often intersect in logically confusing ways.
Blindness is on the greater vision spectrum but not all of the vision spectrum is the blindness spectrum. At a point on the vision spectrum one stops being blind and becomes sighted. Think of it like light. Ultraviolet is on the light spectrum and has a spectrum of its own; but not all of the light spectrum is ultraviolet.
So would it be accurate to say that autism is on a spectrum that also includes non-autistic people?