Teen climate activist Greta: ‘Before I started school striking…I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning’
Greta Thunberg: "Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder.
All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people."
Climate Skeptic Tom Nelson responded: "Greta, if you were to discover that there is no climate crisis, would your life lose all meaning? Do you have any interest at all in natural climate variability?"
Greta: “Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder.
All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.”
Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder.
All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 31, 2019
When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning!
I have Aspergers and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And – given the right circumstances- being different is a superpower.#aspiepower pic.twitter.com/A71qVBhWUU— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 31, 2019
I'm not public about my diagnosis to "hide" behind it, but because I know many ignorant people still see it as an "illness", or something negative. And believe me, my diagnosis has limited me before. >
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 31, 2019
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Greta, if you were to discover that there is no climate crisis, would your life lose all meaning? Do you have any interest at all in natural climate variability? https://t.co/62wh8DtXas
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) August 31, 2019
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Sure happy to know your “meaning” comes from an insatiable desire to confiscate our wealth and restrict our freedoms…
— Kensington 3487 (@Wiswall13) August 31, 2019
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Greta Thunberg at 2018 TED Talk on her climate worry: If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn’t it made illegal? To me, that did not add up. It was too unreal. So when I was 11, I became ill. I fell into depression, I stopped talking, and I stopped eating. In two months, I lost about 10 kilos of weight. Later on, I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, OCD and selective mutism. That basically means I only speak when I think it’s necessary – now is one of those moments.”
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Also see: New Claim: ‘Climate Despair’ Is Making People Give Up on Life
