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Re: US Presidents acting nuts



Jim Devine wrote:

(I'm told that a lot of people with autism spectrum disorders go into
acting because it's easier to follow a script. I'm sure that's true
for some other mental or perceptual disorders.)

They psychoanalyst Joseph Sandler suggested that people with narcissitic personality disorders often go into acting because they don't have coherent personalities, and like to take on strange ones.

Doug



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