“She changed us and now she is changing a great many other people.” Introducing Greta Thunberg – Guardian, March 11, 2019

“She changed us and now she is changing a great many other people. There was no hint of this in her childhood. It’s unbelievable. If this can happen, anything can happen.”

The quote is from a March 11, 2019 Guardian article, entitled: “Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior.

Another excerpt reads:

Greta was exceptionally bright. Four years ago, she was diagnosed with Asperger’s.

“I overthink. Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad. I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.”

She has come to accept this as part of who she is – and made it a motivating force instead of a source of paralysing depression, which it once was.

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