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Greta Thunberg ... again

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Longdogs

Chatterbox

SW England

Joined: Mar 2016

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24-09-2019, 02:30 PM

Re: Greta Thunberg ... again

Originally Posted by Floydy ->

Aww Roxy, that's unfair. Lassie was lovely

You beat me to it.

Julie1962

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Surrey

Joined: Feb 2013

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24-09-2019, 02:38 PM

Re: Greta Thunberg ... again

Originally Posted by d00d ->

Thanks.

I know nothing about Aspergers.

Greta says:

"I have Aspergers and that means sometimes I'm a bit different from the norm. And — given the right circumstances — being different is a superpower". Rock on.

I'd like to say it is but unless it's carefully managed and hers appears not to be it can mean the person is so convinced they are right, so obsessed with the topic they cannot disengage in a way to actually see a bigger picture. Example my husband notices everything he'd be a great witness he can tell you how many lamp posts, how many bricks in the pavement, exactly what someone was wearing down to each button and how it was sewn onto a garment. But it also means he becomes so obsessed he has to touch each lamp post, each car, each brick etc. It becomes so important he he can't see a bigger picture that he may be going somewhere and needs to keep moving. He has to manage his condition with medication and meditation and exercise. That way he can work and be a useful person.

Now I don't know what greta does for hers but seeing her face the other day I'd suggest she is heading into a bad place soon and her parents should be seeing that and moving her away from the media.

Bruce

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Wollongong, Australia

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25-09-2019, 07:12 AM

Re: Greta Thunberg ... again

I read this in today's Sydney Morning Herald:

Thunberg has called the condition a "gift" and credited it with sparking her activism.

"Some people mock me for my diagnosis. But Asperger is not a disease, it's a gift. People also say that since I have Asperger I couldn't possibly have put myself in this position. But that's exactly why I did this," she wrote on Facebook in February.

"Because if I would have been 'normal' and social I would have organised myself in an organisation, or started an organisation by myself. But since I am not that good at socialising I did this instead. I was so frustrated that nothing was being done about the climate crisis and I felt like I had to do something, anything."

What a remarkable young lady she is.

I wonder if your Swedish is as good as her English?

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-a...25-p52uln.html