💥 GretaThunberg wants you — yes, you — to join the climate strike. For our latest our special issue, the 16-year-old climate activist talks protest, her Asperger’s syndrome, and why 'people who are different are so necessary.' ➡ CoveringClimateNow
, "I have Asperger’s syndrome and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And — given the right circumstances — being different is a superpower."empower her“Without [my Asperger’s syndrome], I wouldn’t have noticed this crisis,” Greta says. She tells Klein that after recognizing the climate crisis for what it was, she felt she had no other choice but to take action.
“I think it has something to do with we walk the walk and we don’t have the distance from what we know and what we say to what we do and how we act,” Greta says. “And without my diagnosis, I also wouldn’t have been such a nerd, and then I wouldn’t have had the time and energy to look through the boring facts and still be interested.
“Depression is something that often people who are different suffer from, either because they work too much or because they are being bullied because they are different or just because they don’t feel right in this society — that they feel everything is meaningless,” she says. “That is often the people who think a bit outside the box and who can see things from a different, new perspective.”
“We need these people, especially now, when we need to change things and we can’t see it just from where we are. We need to see it from a bigger perspective and from outside our current systems,” she explains. “That’s why people who are different are so necessary: because they contribute so much. Therefore we need to really look after the people who are different and who may not be heard. We need to listen to those and to look after each other.
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