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My wife, who spent time around heaps of social workers, starting creating a list of vocations and which psychiatric disorders that might help them. Asperger's:
by sanj 18y ago
My wife, who spent time around heaps of social workers, starting creating a list of vocations and which psychiatric disorders that might help them.
Asperger's: engineers/coders
Narcissism: politicians
Egotism: CEOs
Lawyers: OCD
others?
- ComputerGuru 18y agoOCD also applies to coders - speaking from experience here. You haven't seen truly refactored code until you've seen somebody with OCD try to infinitely refine it :)
- jrockway 18y agoI disagree, people with OCD tend to write terrible code. They want their code to show all the details, but hiding details is what programming is all about. OCD people will make your project very late as they worry about all the special cases that aren't.
- cia_plant 18y ago"Lawyers" is listed in the same column as the three mental disorders. Was that intentional?
- zandorg 18y agoSchizophrenia - Science fiction/cyberpunk author...