Art Schools versus Science Schools

Today, I had a conversation with two friends, an architect and a painter, and we started talking about psychologically disturbed people to be found in art school. (They both went to the former CCAC, now known as the CCA).

At the end of an anecdote, my painter friend concluded that there must be a lot of people with border-line personality disorder amongst art-school students. My architect friend added that, when she went to the CCAC, the psychological distresses of art-school was so severe that the CCAC had round-the-clock counselors to service troubled art-school students.

That got me thinking, whilst studying physics, I didn't meet many border-line psychotics, but I did know a lot of socially dysfunctional people. Boys who couldn't interact with normal people, who couldn't emphasize with other people's emotion, let alone recognize emotions, or make eye contact. In short, in science schools, there was a surfeit of borderline autistics.

In conclusion, one can say that art-schools breed border-line psychosis, whilst science schools breed autism.