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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Yeah I saw that on BBC news wire today or Sky news
How seriously it is
Sound like he is Sheldon Cooper of Russia
That’s just what this world needs. Putin and a sociopath in the White House.
Instead of speculating on Putin, why don’t they vet Obama first?
No he has Headupass syndrome.
Don’t write off as a syndrome what could easily just be that he’s a jerk.
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).
Maybe Obama could sent Putin a hugbox as a personal gift.
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.
No, he has satanic communist disease.
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.
I always thought he was an A$$burger.
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.
ROTFL
EXACTLY! Just like Autism spectrum expansion.
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.
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
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.
Wow. That’s quite a list.
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
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