> Psychology is kind of a mess. I rather quote from the jargon file (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesse

> Psychology is kind of a mess. I rather quote from the jargon file (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html): "Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists. Thus, hackers aware of the issue tend to be among those questioning whether ADD and AS actually exist; and if so whether they are really ‘diseases’ rather than extremes of a normal genetic variation like having freckles or being able to taste DPT. In either case, they have a sneaking tendency to wonder if these syndromes are over-diagnosed and over-treated. After all, people in authority will always be inconvenienced by schoolchildren or workers or citizens who are prickly, intelligent individualists — thus, any social system that depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and therapize and drug such ‘abnormal’ people until they are properly docile and stupid and ‘well-socialized’. So hackers tend to believe they have good reason for skepticism about clinical explanations of the hacker personality."