So Meat Loaf caused a little kerfuffle this weekend by saying he thought Greta Thunberg had been “brainwashed.”
I don’t know why that should be a surprise, but it got me thinking about her again. I have a lot of sympathy for the kid.
For me, it started with seeing her picture. She’s small, slight, even scrawny; her head looks out of proportion to her body.
She’s now 17 (as of 3 January) but she still looks childlike, prepubertal, younger than her 14-year-old sister. Frankly, she looks like she’s been in a concentration camp: malnourished over the long term.
Sure enough, reading a little about her, we find that she’s an Asperger’s child (I guess this month that’s now called “high-functioning autism”), she has obsessive-compulsive disorder, she stopped eating for months and still refuses to eat anything but certain specific things, in particular, a dish of pancakes filled with rice — but her OCD keeps her from eating if there’s a sticker or label on the package.
She suffers from “selective mutism,” which means basically that there are situations in which she’s unable to speak.
She’s said that this means she only “speaks when she thinks it’s necessary.” This includes speaking to the UN General Assembly, but in interviews, her mother often speaks for her.
Her public career started when she took Fridays off from school to hold up a sign outside the Swedish Parliament; this grew into a movement that spread throughout Europe.
Through it all, things keep striking me as odd. I don’t know what it’s like in Sweden, but cutting classes one day a week isn’t normally feted as heroic in the United States.
And she hasn’t been attending school for months as she’s traveling. In the U.S., that’s called “dropping out”
So, this is what we’re being asked to believe: that an autistic kid with OCD who often can’t speak on her own has:
- organized a worldwide movement
- given TED talks, spoken to the UN General Assembly, and been named Person of the Year by Time magazine
- managed to get a ride on a multimillion-dollar racing yacht so she wouldn’t have to fly (and bragged on how she wasn’t releasing CO2 on the trip, although it required seven plane tickets for the crew for the boat)
There’s a bucolic barnyard term for that — actually, several, depending on your choice of equine, bovine, or galline.
This isn’t a neurologically atypical high school kid arranging this: there are adults, and probably a lot of adults, using her as a front.
Some of them are surely her parents, but while they’ve been reasonably successful in music and the arts, I don’t think they have the money that’s obviously behind this.
Frankly, that’s a tragedy. Instead of getting the treatment she needs, she’s become a climate-change muppet.
It’s hardly the first time a teenage girl has become the symbol of a movement. Of course, Joan of Arc was eventually burned at the stake.
I don’t think that is in Greta’s future. But what’s happening to her looks to me like another martyrdom in pursuit of a political cause.
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She was in grade 9 when she started skipping school. In Sweden grade 1-9 is compulsory and skipping school means that you are breaking the law and should result in a police intervention.
But the law apparently doesn’t apply to Greta..
The little goddess of weather is beyond tiresome and will be dropped by her promoters when she’s no longer useful.
Just another Brainwashed Child a Product of her Nations leftists run Educational system a perfect example of why we need Home and Private Schooling and gotten out of these indoctrination Centers called Public Schools
It’s easy to take shots at front person Great and her goon squad entourage. The more important issue is the gullibility of Western society. Billions of people elsewhere are blissfully unaware and unaffected by 420 ppm of CO2 in their world.
Kids can easly be manipulated and what they read or learn a few years ago there was this book BROTHER EAGLE SISTER SKY A MESSAGE FROM CHIEF SEATTLE aimed at its it turned out the book was a totaly fictional putting words in Seattle’s mouth he ever spoke just like Micheal Bellsilles book ARMING AMERICA it was all fake and a total hoax Bellsillies lost his Bancroft prize and the Money and was forced to resign in disgrace.Global Warming/Climate Change is just another scandal being used by the globalists and Eco-Freaks
That was then. In nowadays with the totally corrupted media, he would get another Academic Reward and a gig at CNN as a “gun violence” expert.
I wonder If Greta Dumberg took Fridays off from school to hold up a sign ” Sweeden needs 2nd Amendment” outside the Swedish Parliament, would she be invited to speak to the UN and American Congress?
I bet they would call her a stupid kid, charged for the skipping school and probably send her to the mental institution.
Greta handlers are child abusers .
Her” dreams” are their delusions .
Time should have stuck their faces on their fluff piece .
Greta is a Petra Kelly redux.