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There are 2-3 options I could see as being possible.

One is less likely, that either you have it or don't and all cases are as extreme as any other.

Second is some people have it or don't, and the people who have it can have varying symptom levels.

Third is that it's a spectrum everyone is on. Technically most people "have it", but have to to such a minor degree that it is classified as not having it. But restructuring how we classify it would reveal a continuum that applies to most of the population.

How binary vs spectral do you think schizophrenia is?

What would a sub-classified schizophrenic person be like?

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[-]chakwit8(+7|0)

Having dealt with a few in my life, I think it's both binary and spectral. I.e., you either have it or you don't, but if you do have it, you can have it from slightly to so intensely that you're not really connected to reality.

[-]RickSanchez4(+3|0)

I think autism is related to Schizophrenia as they both affect the same part of the brain and are both treated with the same medicine.

[-]chakwit3(+2|0)

Interesting. Autism, arguably, cuts one off from perceiving "social reality", where schizophrenia cuts one off from actual reality. Might be something to that.

[-]RickSanchez2(+1|0)

Schizophrenia also cuts one off from a social reality because it makes one a pariah in society.

[-]chakwit2(+1|0)

Bit different from the sense in which I meant it, though. And hearing voices, or seeing things that are not there, are very different things from being blind to social cues.

[-]newJiminy2(+1|0)

Could be left brain is more for analytical thinking, right brain more creative, one side can get messed up more for whatever reason causing autism, or schitzophrenia, or other mental issues.

[-]newJiminy2(+1|0)

I agree I think normally the blood brain barrier keeps bad stuff out of the brain, but if that gets broken bad stuff can get in there, and the level of severity depends on what the stuff is, and time.

[-]kraken1(0|0)

level of autism, you mean

[-]newJiminy1(0|0)

Any kind of mental issue

[-]JasonCarswell3(+2|0)

Schizophrenia can be genetic, and life is a sexually transmitted virus that no one survives.

[-]RickSanchez3(+2|0)

I have Schizoaffective Disorder, which is like having schizophrenia and bipolar disorder at the same time. Sarah Connor was diagnosed with it when she was put in a mental hospital while she was blowing up AI Data Centers to stop killer robots from the future.

[-]newJiminy3(+2|0)

The terminator line is a term for the separation of dark and light on the moon.

[-]x0x73(+2|0)

Sounds like a useful disease.

[-]RickSanchez3(+2|0)

Sara Connor wasn't mentally ill; she was right that Cyberdyne and Skynet were creating Terminators, killer robots.

[-]newJiminy2(+1|0)

Maybe the whole series was all in her head .... that'd be terrible never mind.

[-]RickSanchez1(0|0)

Is the Terminator T-800 her ex-husband?

[-]newJiminy1(0|0)

Could be yeah like everyone's from her family like the wizard of oz.

[-]soundsituation2(+1|0)

Some people have it or don't, and the people who have it can have varying symptom levels.

It's definitely this one. A lot of the symptom severity has to do with the content of the delusions; some beliefs are pretty benign and others tend to inspire disastrous behavioral responses.

[-]kraken1(0|0)

yes