Required reading from Quilette.....Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism by Paulina Neuding
Greta is eleven years old and has gone two months without eating. Her
heart rate and blood pressure show clear signs of starvation. She has
stopped speaking to anyone but her parents and younger sister, Beata.
After years of depression, eating disorders, and anxiety attacks, she
finally receives a medical diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome,
high-functioning autism, and OCD. She also suffers from selective
mutism—which explains why she sometimes can’t speak to anyone outside
her closest family. When she wants to tell a climate researcher that she
plans a school strike on behalf of the environment, she speaks through
her father.
The book Scenes from the Heart (“Scener från Hjärtat,” 2018)
recounts these medical difficulties and the events that led to Greta
Thunberg’s now-famous “school strike for climate,” in which hundreds of
thousands of children have refused to attend school to protest about
government inaction over climate change. Greta herself strikes every
Friday and spent three weeks sitting outside the Swedish Parliament at
the beginning of the school year. READ MORE HERE.
Another interesting article: THE CULT OF GRETA THUNBERG https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/22/the-cult-of-greta-thunberg/
Ugh three times for the so-called adults.
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