Me I do not, smiling is not really in my repertoire and I find smiles
bizarre
But then I would apparantly the full on toothy grin is a relatively modern
phenomenon predicated by the advent of modern dentistry for in the world
before cosmetic teeth only a fool or a madman would show what they lack
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/staff/cjones/research/
fortunately as an autist I am immune to these strange neurotypical
expressions though as a sometime photographer I know of there social import.
Larry
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> Subject: The smile: A key to the disability iconograpy
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> Hi all,
>
> I am looking into the cultural meaning of the smiling disabled person in
> pictures and movies.
>
> The smile encompasses, presumeably, everything from acceptance
> motif built
> into the tragedy theory, to the joy and pride of identity affirmation.
>
> I am especially interested in how such images are mediated on the web.
>
> Any online suggestions?
>
> Yours,
> Halvor Hanisch
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