Looks like a recent study attempts to prove that those Goth kids you knew in high school tended be those same kids who end up becoming high paid professionals – minus the makeup.

It’s every parent’s nightmare. Their apparently well-adjusted child suddenly comes home with hair the colour of a coalface, a face whiter than anything made by Dulux, and announces, “Mummy, I’m a goth.” However, according to a new study, parents of goths will probably end up boasting about their son/daughter the doctor, lawyer or bank manager.

Part of the trick about being goth (or otherwise “wierd” and different) is that you pretty much need to be a really smart and intelligent individual. All too often you need to deal with ignorant or conservative people and the only way to get through life is to out-smart the masses.