Greta Thunberg

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One of the reason I'm "less autistic" than you is probably simply practice. Scripts have helped me a lot with practicing. My rather limited ability to mask is also as good as it is only due to practice. It could indeed be that in some social situations that aren't about facts, I end up saving my face by not answering immediately 'cause I'm thinking, while answering immediately I'd give a bad answer and make a fool of myself.

I haven't paid attention to if Thunberg masks or not, but one way of looking at things could be that her weirdness would be even more obvious if she didn't mask the amount she already does.
Note that I'm not saying she masks; I don't know if she does. I'm just saying that it's a possibility.



If it helps or not depends on the context. Let's say that Thunberg has instagram and she only posts environment stuff there (I don't know if she does, but in this example she does.) Because it's only that stuff, people interested in that stuff are likelier to see her worth following than if she constantly posted about other stuff too that had nothing to do with these people's interests. So, if one wants followers, having a specific thing(s) they talk about will help to keep people interested.



Depending on how bad things would get, people would start dying because of the relocating when there would be simply not enough livable space or usable resources left.



Not showing the emotion on your face that people expect you to show when you feel a certain way is very common autistic trait. Surely you know that, right?

I'm pretty sure I'm just critical of the hysteria of 'anti-wokeness', although I can see how some might conflate the two.

Does she, or is that just your interpretation? Personally I've never gotten that impression.

A lot of autistics script. A lot of women here talk about intensely studying facial expressions for the purposes of mimicking them. All the studying in the world is no guarantee the mimicking will be convincing. When one is not on script a “deer in headlight” expression is common. She might be a dim bulb whose speeches contain not one original thought. Atypical body language and tone of voice in an autistic person is a problematic way of coming to that conclusion.

Funeralxempire is not woke. They(guessing this is the correct pronoun based on listed non binary gender) is not censorious, they does not judge people as needing cancelation based on one deviation from progressive orthodoxy.

No I don't believe anything greta says- she is out of touch with reality. What she might perceive as going on isn't what is actually going on. Her parents seem like your standard leftist virtue signaling parents- they saw that their child was into this and put her on the world stage or handed her off to the group of people that push the climate change agenda. What they get is money and praise from those around them for having such a "brave" child. Though it could also be that they do care for her and they believe that indulging this in every way possible will make greta happier though greta being the out of touch person that she is perceives it as not enough and in need of more support for her delusions. I'm not going to pretend to know exactly how and why greta's life has played out the way it has we can only speculate. I do see where she gives her speeches and you don't go to these places without big money support.

Another way to look at it would be the way that narcissists and other nefarious characters tend to use the more naïve of the population to get what they want.

The first time I went to Banff, there was a fine old stone hotel overlooking the Columbia Glacier ending at turquoise Lake Louise. The hotel is still there, overlooking a field of rubble and a distant sliver of ice.

This has been a year of truly extraordinary fires, droughts and floods. I think you are the one hiding from reality.

Ouy second that, Mate!

If you all want to discuss the merrits and pitfulls of the global warming theory (a term which they have changed to now say "climate change") that seems more appropriate for the politics section. This year working outside I got more wet then other years. We had a late summer that wasn't particularly hot. As for the increased fires there are many things that can be attributed to why fires occur- the weather is but one factor. When people obsess over something they start to see it in everything, in order for a fire to occur there has to be spark and without that there is no fire. Unless you are talking of summer lightening storms (a very rare occurrence least where I am from) you really are out of touch. In the grand scheme of the entire history of the planet no we are not any hotter. We have had much hotter periods on this earth. The climate changes, it has always changed and will continue to do so. Your belief in some communist manifesto of forced compliance to environmental dictates that will not work are illogical and out of touch with reality. Like how we are turning to electric cars that in the end cause more pollution on the earth globally and that we don't even have the infrastructure to power. You get these illogical solutions because the premise is flawed.

Then I really am the last of the mohicans...

She is very impressive regardless. Obviously the environment is a special interest for her and she is passionate about it. I can't recall a single teenager anywhere with the balls to stand in front of the united nations and make a speech that resonates with the whole world.

So her ability to mask but also concurrently draw on her special interests is quite clever. Elon Musk is another one who does the same.

Children's books and media about animals and similar nature-related topics nearly always end with a section about how humans are destroying the earth and killing all of the cute animals. It is very easy to get these sorts of ideas if you read children's books with any frequency.

Why would she discuss science? She is not a scientist. She is (or at the time, was,) literally a child. I do not know many children who have managed to become scientists, not even passionate ones. She is repeating things she read in books and newspapers.

Maybe because those others are adults, and she is (was) a child. Children expect adults to fix problems, not make them worse. Expecting a child to know how to fix things is bizare.

Easy, because they haven't even remotely solved the problem.

"All she can do is judge their attitudes by their actions."
Yes! Which leads to the conclusion that they have not solved the problem.

"So then she has to be specific and say what it is she thinks they should have done that they didn't."
They should have solved the problem!

"And when she talked to others, she never mentioned any specific actions or inactions."
I really doubt you have watched or read accounts of every single conversation she has ever had with another person, which would be necessary to make such a sweeping claim.

Further, this is contradicted by the fact that she convinced her own parents to make substantial lifestyle changes in order to be more environmentally friendly.

For what ages? Keep in mind that Greta first heard this at 8, and that was when she stopped flying, became vegan, etc. She just went vocal about it at 16.

I remember the first time I learned about global warming at around 12, and that was when I watched the science movie for much older kids. I remember being really scared by it for a few days. Unlike Greta's case, it was just fear (not a change of action) and it only lasted few days. But it was a nightmare. So I don't think its a good idea to scare little kids with this.

Incidentally, watching science movies for older kids is how I ended up deciding at the age of 9 that my life time goal is to become a theoretical physicist. So that is how I am similar to her: we both arrived at life time goals as kids by watching movies. Its ironic that we sort of intersected out paths when I got scared of global warming in one of the science movies I watched. But, luckily for me, that fear only lasted few days. And no, that movie was not the one that made me decide to become a physicist. I made the decision much earlier, based on other movies that were not scary at all. But then as I kept watching more and more science movies, I ran across this one, along the way.

I do know though that I got scared by a bunch of other things I encountered as a kid. For example, back in Russia we had music lessons. And one of the songs that we sang had a line "And when you'll suddenly be left without your skin
Because he was the one who got killed, and not you" (see full song here https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ballada- ... trife.html ) As you can see, that line is meant to be figurative. But as a kid I took it literally and got scared. So I remember coming home and being scared of the appartment, as I was thinking of that line, I kept turning my head around looking at the appartment scared. Again it only lasted a few days, but it was frigthening.

And since I am much younger than my age, this continued into adulthood. When I was 22, I first read online about satanism. I didn't know such a thing existed before then. I was completely scared for a few weeks. That is what ended up making me decide to become a Christian (I was atheist until then).

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If the biggest fool in the world says the sun is out, it does not go dark. However, Greta is quoting just about every scientist whose salary is not dependent on climate change denial. I don't see any evidence that contradicts them, just desperate attempts to not feel guilty.