In a new book about Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist’s
family describes the teen's struggles as a child, including selective
mutism, an eating disorder and her autism diagnosis.
“She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness,” Greta’s
mother, opera singer Malena Ernman, wrote in an excerpt of “Our House
is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis."
“She stopped playing the piano. She stopped laughing. She stopped
talking. And she stopped eating," Ernman said.
When Greta, now 17, was around 11 years old, she became depressed and
didn't speak and wouldn't eat anything beyond small amounts of rice,
avocado and gnocchi. She was hospitalized after she lost more than 20
pounds in just a couple of months, her mother wrote, according to The
Guardian.
When she finally returned to school, Ernman said, her classmates
bullied her and school officials blamed her.
“Their understanding of the situation is different. It’s Greta’s own
fault, the school thinks,” Ernman wrote.
She was eventually diagnosed with “high-functioning” autism
(Asperger’s) and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Her mother said Greta, who was named Time’s Person of the Year in
2019, first became interested in the environment when one of her
teachers showed a film about pollution in the ocean.
“Greta can’t reconcile any of this with any of what she has just
seen,” Ernman wrote, adding that while other students quickly moved on
to other topics after they saw the film, she was overwhelmed by its
message. “She saw what the rest of us did not want to see. It was as
if she could see our CO2 emissions with her naked eye.”
During her first “school strike” in 2018, in which she sat outside of
the Swedish prime minister’s office with a homemade protest sign that
read “School strike for the climate,” a Greenpeace activist offered
her some vegan Thai noodles.
Her mother wrote the moment was a changing point for Greta, who would
eat only at home at that time.
“She takes a little bite. And another. No one reacts to what’s
happening. Why would they?" she wrote, according to The Guardian.
"Greta keeps eating. Not just a few bites but almost the whole
serving.”
Greta’s strike eventually started a global climate change movement and
she now spends her time traveling around the world advocating for
climate awareness.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/greta-thunbergs-mom-describes-teen-activists-struggles-with-autism-eating-disorder-in-new-book
Greta is as ignorant as a dry turd.