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Does Vladimir Putin have Asperger's syndrome?
CBS News ^ | February 5, 2015 | U-JIN LEE

Posted on 02/05/2015 9:54:44 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep

A 2008 Pentagon report claims Russian President Vladimir Putin has Asperger's syndrome, according to a copy of the study obtained by CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin.

The research was conducted by the Office of Net Assessment, a secretive, internal Pentagon think tank. It defined Asperger's syndrome as "an autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions."

The analysis is solely based on videos of Putin's public actions, dating back to the year 2000. The researchers did not claim to have access to any data from scans of Putin's brain.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: aspergers; autism
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1 posted on 02/05/2015 9:54:44 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Yeah I saw that on BBC news wire today or Sky news

How seriously it is

Sound like he is Sheldon Cooper of Russia


2 posted on 02/05/2015 9:58:18 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

That’s just what this world needs. Putin and a sociopath in the White House.


3 posted on 02/05/2015 9:59:01 AM PST by ChocChipCookie ("Demons run when a good man goes to war.")
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Instead of speculating on Putin, why don’t they vet Obama first?


4 posted on 02/05/2015 9:59:06 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

No he has Headupass syndrome.


5 posted on 02/05/2015 9:59:12 AM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Don’t write off as a syndrome what could easily just be that he’s a jerk.


6 posted on 02/05/2015 9:59:17 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
I'm thinking this might be something made up to tweak Putin.

On the other hand, I wouldn't question a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder given how often he likes to pose with his shirt off and/or in "action" scenarios.

(My apologies to the Putin Fan Club here).

7 posted on 02/05/2015 9:59:57 AM PST by gdani (Ebola exposed the U.S. as fearful, easy-to-manipulate weaklings)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Maybe Obama could sent Putin a hugbox as a personal gift.


8 posted on 02/05/2015 10:00:15 AM PST by oblomov (White privilege: the contemporary left's way of saying "the Jews".)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Does it matter? even a little bit? 50 years ago what we call now Aspergers Syndrome was just part of Normal. Normal was a much broader field of humanity than it is now. Many of the new “syndromes” are but Psychologists inventing new “conditions” to treat and along the way, narrowing down “normal” further and further. Listen to a psychologist, and I have done that, you would discover that only 5-10 per cent of human beings are “normal,” all of them politically Liberal.


9 posted on 02/05/2015 10:02:54 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

No, he has satanic communist disease.


10 posted on 02/05/2015 10:06:07 AM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Well I have a High Functioning family member with Asberger’s and I have to say she is vastly a cut above and then some of her classmates in “reading people accuratly”...and highly focused when they speak.

I understand Putin has that as well...but it was not specified as Asberger’s before.

Many high profile people have Asberger’s.....and it takes specific testing to make that determination,.... So I say this is hogwash.


11 posted on 02/05/2015 10:06:50 AM PST by caww
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I always thought he was an A$$burger.


12 posted on 02/05/2015 10:08:49 AM PST by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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Does it matter? even a little bit? 50 years ago what we call now Aspergers Syndrome was just part of Normal. Normal was a much broader field of humanity than it is now. Many of the new “syndromes” are but Psychologists inventing new “conditions” to treat and along the way, narrowing down “normal” further and further. Listen to a psychologist, and I have done that, you would discover that only 5-10 per cent of human beings are “normal,” all of them politically Liberal.


13 posted on 02/05/2015 10:10:12 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: gdani
I'm thinking this might be something made up to tweak Putin. On the other hand, I wouldn't question a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder given how often he likes to pose with his shirt off and/or in "action" scenarios. (My apologies to the Putin Fan Club here).

ROTFL

14 posted on 02/05/2015 10:12:11 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: arthurus

EXACTLY! Just like Autism spectrum expansion.


15 posted on 02/05/2015 10:14:50 AM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I worked with a young guy that had Aspergers. You have to be around people with the condition and listen them talk and get a sense for their thought processes to pick up on it. That is how it was for this young man anyway. I don’t know if there are varying degrees of affliction. Be really hard to pick up if you didn’t know the language they were speaking.


16 posted on 02/05/2015 10:15:00 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: arthurus

It really doesn’t matter....

Here’s just a few People determined to have Asberger’s:

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German/American theoretical physicist

Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scottish/Canadian/American inventor of the telephone

Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German/Viennese composer

Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US humorist

Michelangelo, 1475 1564 - Italian Renissance artist

Benjamin Franklin,1706-1790, US polictician/writer

Henry Ford, 1863-1947, US industrialist

Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862, US writer

Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist

Jane Austen, 1775-1817, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice


17 posted on 02/05/2015 10:15:48 AM PST by caww
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

My underwear have my name in them. They say Vladimir Putin.
Of course I don't have my underwear.
I'm definitely not wearing my underwear.


18 posted on 02/05/2015 10:16:41 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: caww

Wow. That’s quite a list.


19 posted on 02/05/2015 10:18:44 AM PST by McGruff (Haters Gonna Hate)
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Bill Gates, 1955-, Entrepreneur and philanthropist. A key player in the personal computer revolution.

Bob Dylan, 1941-, US singer-songwriter

Charles Dickinson, 1951, US Writer

James Taylor, 1948-, US singer/songwriter

Jeff Greenfield, 1943-, US political analyst/speechwriter, a political wonk

John Motson, 1945-, English sports commentator

John Nash, 1928-, US mathematician (portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, USA 2001)

Joseph Erber, 1985-, young English composer/musician who has Asperger’s Syndrome, subject of a BBC TV documentary

Keith Olbermann, 1959-, US sportscaster

Kevin Mitnick, 1963-, US “hacker”

Paul Kostabi 1962-, writer, comedian, artist, producer, technician

Robin Williams, 1951-, US Actor

Seth Engstrom, 1987-, Magician and World Champion in Sleight of Hand. The best man with a deck of cards that the world has ever seen.

Tony Benn, 1925-, English Labour politician


20 posted on 02/05/2015 10:19:58 AM PST by caww
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