Putin the aspie?

Russian facial expressions have become news again as Kremlinologists have veered into the more unreliable efforts to diagnose foreign leaders. Of note, one report speculated that Putin had asperger's syndrome and there was other speculation that he had some stroke in utero.

That said, one guy did make a very valid point.






When I went to Russia, a lack of expressiveness was the norm, not the exception. It is Western (especially American) norms of smiling all the time that are abnormal for a Russian politician when the politician grew up in... Russia.