Hi, this is a wonderful display of a normal 19 year old who is autistic. She is open about it, how it affects her daily life, how her celebrity which she is not using for her own benefit, and how she copes she mentions she really doesn’t like what she feels she has to do and often retreats to an environment that soothes her emotion distress. One of the things she mentions is her love of beans, and eating one bean at a time, as it helps her deal. The interview was grand. Here is a 19 year old who could have been using her status to make millions as an influencer yet proudly admits she will use her large platform to introduce other people who have expertise or experience in fighting the climate emergency, and then she steps aside, giving them the entire stage to say what needs to be said.
She is engaging, dare I say cute, without being called out as a sexist pig? She laughed at the host, who was not trying to be funny because that was how it struck her. I loved how she totally was not like other guests, she was herself.
If I don’t clip this right and you want to hear her talk about her autism and how it affects her and her activism, please go through the video. Oh one thing before where I start with her interview, they have kids on, and the kids love her. To the point where the host tries to ask one of the kids if he knew who he was or wanted to talk to him and the kid was like, no, I want to talk to her. What an ego busting moment. Hugs, best wishes, loves. Scottie
Oh notice one thing, she says she doesn’t need to make money from the books and activism, because she is in what we call college or university and her country pays her not only to be there but enough to live. Her living costs are paid because she is a student. Think about that next time an argument about student loans comes up and how great the US is. Hugs
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Some people, including Ms. Thunberg by now because of her books, pay taxes for all the correct reasons! 🙂
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Hello Ali. Amazing and yet not a word of complaint from her on that. Puts our “adult” republicans to shame. Hugs. Scottie
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That video is unavailable in Aotearoa, and possibly other countries as well. I found an alternative on the Russel Howard channel that I hope is the same video: https://youtu.be/62ECkYYbPlA?si=McPHQlaXOiQDPvW4
It doesn’t include the section with the kids, But this may be it: https://youtu.be/BgBpYR7gFbQ?si=y6GYwylsh4TjBYZt
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Hi Barry. I am so sorry that when I post a video you can not see it. It is frustrating to you and me both. I know once Roger suggested you take the title and post it in the local YouTube you use. I myself use a VPN, I love it for many reasons, and it lets me watch anything restricted to any country simply by changing my connection to that country while protecting my computers.
On the links you sent. Thank you. They are the same show I watched.
Barry I hate to pry, but at the risk of seeming insensitive, how did you find her interview? See, I am really grateful to you for teaching me about autism, and people with it. I really never thought of it much until you talked about it openly here on my blog. I really hope you will keep helping me and maybe my other viewers understand what the world / situations might be like for autistic people.
Oh one thing. I hope you have not already answered this question and I missed it, but I know you said it was autistic people, not people with autism. Just like it is gay people but not people with being gay. But what about the phrase “on the spectrum”? I used that a lot. Now I am not sure if that is appropriate or even a good thing to say. Thanks for helping me understand. Best wishes. Scottie
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I use VPN on my phone when away from my house but tend not to use it for any device on my home network. I have a gigabit Internet connection and I have yet to find a VPN that allows such speeds.
I find Greta totally adorable and delightful. I was yet to meet my wife when she was 19, but I imagine at that age, and when she was in a totally comfortable situation she would present in a way that’s similar to Greta. Whatever either does, it’s at 120%.
Autistic females generally present in ways that superficially appear closer to neurotypical females than autistic males do to neurotypical males. In some ways that makes their life easier and in other ways more difficult compared to male autistics.
While it’s true that most autistic people prefer identity-first (autistic person) over person-first (person with autism) there are those who do not.
The best rule of thumb for non-autistic people is listen to how an autistic person identifies themselves and use that. If such information is not available, stick with “autistic” until the person expresses a preference.
As for “on the spectrum” I personally don’t find it offensive, but in reality it’s a euphemism to avoid mentioning the “dreaded word” (autism or autistic), and is a shortening of the phrase “on the autism spectrum”. (There are other conditions where “spectrum” is also used.) Perhaps like Americans use the word “bathroom” in polite conversation to avoid reference to bodily functions. We Kiwis tend to be a bit less coy and use “toilet” or “loo” instead.
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On second thoughts the bathroom analogy doesn’t really apply. Here, the toilet is in a room of its own and not part of, or accessed through, the bathroom.
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Thank you, Barry. Best wishes. Scottie
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Oh Barry. The other thing the other advanced countries have that most of the US doesn’t is affordable, fast internet. I just got an upgrade to, download speed: up to 400 Mbps, Upload speed: up to 10 Mbps for $121.00 US dollars.
As for VPN speed, I use NordVPN and it doesn’t interfere with my speeds, but again I don’t have your speed of internet either. Best wishes. Scottie
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10 Mbps upload? Are you sure it’s not 100? Your US$121 converts to about NZ$196. For that I could 8 Gbps if I was near a major metropolitan area. I’m in a rural town with a population of 17,000 and the fastest speed available in my street is 4 Gbps download, 2 Gbps upload, which costs around NZ$150 (US$92), depending on provider. My 980/500 Mbps plan costs NZ$88 (US$54).
Out of curiosity, do you have a wide choice of internet providers in your location? Here we don’t have “pure internet providers”. What were once internet providers, phone companies (land or mobile) electricity suppliers and gas suppliers (piped or bottled) now provide a mixture of utilities. I have a choice of around 100 companies, of which about 40 can supply all my utilities of internet, land phone line, mobile phone, and electricity. I usually do a price compare once a year and change providers to get the best deal. At present I’m using two providers, as that worked out as the best deal at the time. But looking what is currently available, the best deals are bundling all the services together. That would bring my internet down to around NZ$60 (US$37).
I don’t think my VPN speed is to do with the provider. I think it’s more do do with the way VPN traffic is routed on its way to and from New Zealand. NZ VPN speeds are acceptable, but from some locations such the US, Canada, and the UK it’s very poor. VPN from Australia and east Asia are fast, but that’s not where I spend most of my time on the internet.
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Hi Barry. Nope I meant what I typed. Download speed: up to 400 Mbps, Upload speed: up to 10 Mbps for $121.00 US dollars. As for choice of providers, we have two, Comcast cable which is the fastest, and Spectrum phone line DSL which is slower. Again in the US profit is king so no one is looking out for the customer, the company gets to gouge as much as they want. Most countries have far better internet than the US, such as yours. We still have large sections of the country without broadband and still have to rely on dial up. The government tried to pay to do something about that, but up until Biden got his big improvement bill passed, the republicans blocked every attempt. It would have eaten into corporate profits. And in the US, profit is king. Best wishes. Scottie
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I have Spectrum internet (via cable) … I’m paying for 300 Mbps download but often get over that (upload same as yours). I pay $79.99. 😊 I also get two phone lines for $28.00 (All the “unlimited” stuff plus 1 GB between the two of us — which neither one of us use anywhere near close to that).
We also pay for Dish satellite … which I’m TRYING to discontinue but the other-half has TWO channels that he watches regularly (and can’t get via ROKU) so I haven’t been able to wean him off of it yet. (GRRR)
I would guess our rates are better because of a less populous state?
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Hi Nan. I am glad to see that DSL is better outside Florida. Here the phone lines and connection boxes are so bad that people in the park had lots of trouble with it. On the rates, Florida has gotten to be one of the most expensive states to live. Rabid republicans took over after Jeb Bush, and they seriously believe profit is king and businesses rule.
For us when we replaced the old cable coming into the house from the outside box we gained a lot more speed, plus Comcast has been working to upgrade their systems including in places running fiber optic cable. I wish they would run a new cable from their main box to our outside house connection box, but if we asked for that, we would have to pay and rebury the cable ourselves.
On the internet and our phones we have unlimited data, our phone costs us more than internet does, but it always works. We run our car nav and sound system hooked to our phone, so that uses our phone data. We use a lot of internet. We don’t use any TV service because with our internet we use Apple TV boxes, we have YouTube premium which I spend most of my time on. Ron uses Netflix and Viki, which I use Netflix rarely and don’t use Viki at all. Plus we could use our Amazon Prime more, I use it for the TV shows I want to catch if I have time, but Ron doesn’t bother. So we found cable TV was useless to us and costing too much money. Hugs. Scottie
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People who live in Europe take so many things for granted–like free college. So much needless suffering and struggle in our culture.
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Hello Eurobrat. Yes. The US could have all those things also, yet profit here is king. We have to keep the wealthy even more wealthy while the rest of us suffer for it. Hugs. Scottie
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Inexperienced snot nosed brat with an ugly mug. This loser Greta should go back to school.
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Well Joe, you got much closer to the current year. But again, you’re not impressing anyone with your insults. It just goes to show you don’t know what you are talking about. You may not like what she says but she is an expert in the subjects she talks about.
She is very knowledgeable in the climate studies and doing very well in her education. I am willing to bet she could run laps around you in a test on global pollution, climate change, along with clean up procedures needed in a science based test. Of course you would win it if the test was on right wing media misinformation and lies about climate change and the cause of global warming. Hugs. Scottie
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