Don’t Call Greta Thunberg “Superhuman”

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We don’t need pernicious code words about autism to praise a remarkable 16-year-old girl.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/1 ... ebunk.html

People think sub-human when they hear "autism".

To dumb people though that's probably how she looks.

Yeah she's not a superhuman. She was in my city today I wasn't able to go to the rally but I watched it on youtube and yeah shes just human. If anything I kind of think it would be disrespectful to idolize her and I doubt she wants it.

She also seems nervous being in front of so many people, which having autism myself I can sympathize with that.

What she is mostly is a kid being exploited for a cause

She’s a climate change alarmist who I wish would obtain academic qualifications.

Anyone who's a bit different based on certain identifications one has who happened to have a huge microphone on might've.

In that case, there's young, there's female, then there's verbal autistic, who just so happens to push issues on climate change for which ever reason.



As a, erm, a 'resident' of some vulnerable country, many would appreciate the concern... Provoking panic is a way to catch attention or urgency. Just as the president here chose cussing and death threats.

From where I live, we focus adapting and many cannot afford panic.
Panic is easy to pass by here, because some of the most affected are too focused somewhere else, some don't have a time to grieve even let alone have those existential urgency to be loud, some almost can't watch the news regularly, some prefers distractions.

But it cannot be said to other's that aren't accustomed nor as affected.

Yet as an autistic with enough access to the numbers and data that says 'my current location is one of the most affected places' -- should I panic about this? One of those places happened to be my 'home' along with many of my relatives and friends, with first hand experiences.
I don't, yet some foreigner do. I'm not numb nor simply dismiss things around me as normal, nor simply gone fatalistic.

Nope, I'm too busy keeping other people sane by making them worry less, and line them up with examples and subtle prompts not to throw the damn trash on the canals. I'd rather whisper in one's ears and say those tiny little things of everyday doings and tell them to pass the message around as NTs tend would do and would enforce to do so.
I'd rather want my mom to be strong, because she's a local enforcer that so happened to be the president's most relied on unit -- I'd rather have her less stressed out and sane. Sane enough to tell the chief, sane enough to tell the mayor, sane enough to tell the rest of the government, sane enough to tell the citizens and those citizens spreads the word.

No need a louder microphone, a well streamed visual, big names audience and provoking statements here.


Yet even the chief executive here isn't heard enough for some reason.
So why not a bigger microphone with differentiating tones in the same content and concerns, and yet with a different face for a speaker that just so happened to be a young, foreign, female and autistic?



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Most of the criticism of her has been of a sexist nature, and of her being a “millennial”, rather than of her being on the spectrum.

But as far as climate change goes, I do wonder if it is technology possible to reverse climate change, a redo of sorts.

But still, I would rather her be a face of autism, than some disgruntled incel.