By Charlie Martin 2020-01-06
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.............. Instead of getting the treatment she needs, she's become a climate-change muppet............To Read More....
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