Coding Horror: Software Developers and Asperger's Syndrome: "> can name Doctors and Accountants as two professions that contain people even 'weirder' than programmers.

Really? Do accountants go home and do a bunch of accounting for fun? Do doctors? Somehow I think that's unlikely, but many programmers do exactly this.

Example. For better or worse, I spend nearly every waking hour (almost literally) in front of a computer. I have a hard time imagining accountants going home and cracking open their accounting ledger and sliding on their green visor, you know, 'for fun'.

I think other professional fields *can* be asperger-y, but few as much as computer science."