I agree with Akenaton. He's not a herd animal. His views may be rigid and doctrinaire, but they are fairly unique when viewed as a whole.

It is my belief that attention deficit disorder is somewhere on the fringes of the autism spectrum, and has a similar tendency put one outside the herd (whether one wants to be on the outside or not). I have ADD, myself, and so does my son. One thing that I have observed about people following the herd is that it seems to provide a lot of comfort to those who are in it, and this is probably a big part of the reason it is so hard for people to break out of it.