Greta Thunberg, who plainly exhibits many of the signs of autism, is more to be pitied than scorned. She has been immorally manipulated and abused by her parents for the usual "good" reasons: fame and wealth.
Might there be some
prescription-drug influence? I wonder: What's the prevailing medical response in Scandinavia to a diagnosis of
autism?
It's my impression that in the U.S.A., prescribing drugs is the prevailing medical response to a diagnosis of
autism. Potential drugs include
amphetamines (a.k.a. "speed" &c.), whose effects depend dramatically on
puberty, acting as sedatives before puberty
[*], and as stimulants after puberty. It's also my impression that there's
no credible scientific research that indicates that it's safe to administer such drugs continually to a child before, during, and after she crosses that crucial boundary of physical development. Or safe at any time before adulthood, because childhood and adolescence is the period during which the human brain undergoes its greatest development. Amphetamines earned notoriety for afflicting adults with clinical
paranoia.
While Thunberg was studying climate change in school at the age of 11, she reacted in a surprisingly intense way: she suffered an episode of severe depression. After a time it lifted, only to resurface last spring. “I felt everything was meaningless and there was no point going to school if there was no future,” Thunberg says.
Uh,
huh. So in Scandinavia, she was being subjected to the alarmism of
apocalyptic climate propaganda as early as
elementary school, in 5th or 6th grade (U.S. equivalents)!?
I suppose I'll be criticized for writing this, but when I first saw photos of Greta
circa 1/2 year ago
[#], I thought she looked most like a
12-year-old child (+|-2 years)! Might prescription drugs have disrupted her physical development as an adolescent girl? And afflicted her with a chronic
fog of emotions related to clinical
paranoia?-------
Note
*: I recall reading many years ago that amphetamines are prescribed before puberty to act as sedatives to stifle chronic hyperactivity. Never mind that children nowadays in the U.S.A. have a really high--if not excessive--chronic intake of sugar and its equivalents, which might be sufficient to explain hyperactivity among many U.S. children.
Note
#:
TIME May 16, 2019 cover-story, by a Suyin Haynes, more promotional than genuinely newsworthy, as a "Next Generation Leaders" installment in its "
TIME 100" series: <
http://time.com/collection-post/5584902/greta-thunberg-next-generation-leaders/>. Perhaps it's more readily found as compiled into <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_100>.