Greta Thunberg responds to Asperger's critics: 'It's a superpower'
Teenage climate activist responds to criticism, saying ‘when haters go after your looks and differences ... you know you’re winning’
Greta Thunberg has spoken about her Asperger’s syndrome diagnosis after she was criticised over the condition, saying it makes her a “different”, but that she considers it a “superpower”.
Thunberg, the public face of the school climate strike movement said on Twitter that before she started her climate action campaign she had “no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder.”
She said she had not been open about her diagnosis of being on the autism spectrum in order to “hide” behind it, but because she knew “many ignorant people still see it as an ‘illness’, or something negative”.
“When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning!” she wrote, using the hashtag #aspiepower.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/02/greta-thunberg-responds-to-aspergers-critics-its-a-superpower
Hey Greta, if I may call you Greta, first and foremost I and thousands of others have your back and stand with you, second and foremost in my immediate family I have relative that has Asperger's and he is great young man ..............................you and him are Giants in my book......................keep up the good work, you have more common sense than those that attack you, they are small minded in everything they do..............................
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You are a force to be reckoned with. Please don’t stop. 
I thought my 6th graders were cruel but apparently cruelty and purposeful ignorance is quite common in adults. Thanks to MF45 being cruel and sadistic is more than just OK, it is something to aspire to. 
