I think it’s too late now to split it up, so yes. But it would be interesting to see how people on HN are distributed among these cases. I think I will re-submit the poll with better categories one day or other.
I disagree with the author. Handicaps are real, very real, they are not mere excuses to protect our sense of self-worth. If anything, what the handicapped/troubled person desires is to lift and be free his burden - and not to use it to fail repeatedly.
Apart from that, yes subconscious fear of failing, of being not good enough, can paralyze you and demolish your productivity. You spend time searching for that perfect design, then you stumble upon someone's else work, feel inferior/get jealous - go back to the drawing board, and your project gets never completed, not even halfway done. You can never be perfect enough.
So, striving for perfection is not a good ally, striving for providing solutions is.
But please keep real problems/issues out of that, you don't have the right to insult troubled people and call them under performers, and diminish their burdens to "excuses for failure".
This isn't meant to be a hippie, voodoo, "all you need to do is focus on success and it will come" message. There are real handicaps.
But there's also tons of people hurting their chances of success in order to protect their egos. It's not just about perfectionism (although that's one manifestation).
Which "real burdens" did you think were targeted that shouldn't have been?
