I think we should be really careful with this kind of comment. Assuming things from the body language of an autistic teen in an official picture with old government officials, even if they’re a counterproductive lib, is really not fine IMO. There’s plenty to criticise about her and her actions without going there.
She is 20 years old, I wish people would stop using the cop out that she is a child or a teen because of her small figure (not saying you necessarily did that but I’ve seen that a lot), but I get what you mean with her being autistic as it can definitely be harder to depict the body language.
Oh yeah, I it was already weird for people to excuse her (lacking) political worldview when she was 16. Makes even less sense now. But from a social aspect, it’s important to remember that she’s still a rather young neurodivergent woman in a political environment that usually doesn’t receive either of those, despite liberals claiming to be so progressive. I mentioned her age there only because she’s surrounded by people who might have twice her age so it’s natural for her to look out-of-place. So many comments against her person (and not her bland ideology) can at best fail to take this context into account and at worse be malicious.
It’s always best to take care with that and be aware of it. I really wouldn’t enjoy people assuming they can read my body language in a picture for instance.
I was saying she seems to know what she is doing isn’t right. But fair, could be an inaccurate assumption on my part, and she may indeed think what she is doing is somehow okay.
Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to say you were criticising her appearance or anything of the sort. It’s just that us brain weirdos tend to look weird in pictures (and out of them) in ways that might look like some kind of “body language” to the neurotypical observer. Even “normal” people have that happen to them a lot too. It’s generally hard to parse such things from a picture, which is why I felt like pointing that out.
I know and am also not what people would call normal. I have panic attacks on the regular in crowds and can’t even grocery shop during certain hours of certain days because of it. Also been involuntarily hospitalized a few times as well. Since I’m also a USian this stuff costs me between $10k - $20k USD per year, the variation depending on how good my insurance is amd how bad a given year is for me.
I’m not the flavor of neuro diverse Greta is, but I try to be aware of these things.
Greta, I’ve noticed, exudes a lot of confidence and poise when she is in her element, which is the environmental activist sphere. As I suspect she should be since she is actually very well educated in. When she speaks or poses for pictures or whatever while doing things related to these matters, she is clearly confident.
But she isn’t all that knowledgeable about imperialism. Or geopolitics. Or socio-economics. Or the NATO/Russia/Ukraine relationship.
So here she is, likely having already spent several hours already with these people, who would’ve been talking to her about shit she knows next to nothing about, appearing uncomfortable in the photo shoot. Because she is out of her element and knows it.
I think we should be really careful with this kind of comment. Assuming things from the body language of an autistic teen in an official picture with old government officials, even if they’re a counterproductive lib, is really not fine IMO. There’s plenty to criticise about her and her actions without going there.
She is 20 years old, I wish people would stop using the cop out that she is a child or a teen because of her small figure (not saying you necessarily did that but I’ve seen that a lot), but I get what you mean with her being autistic as it can definitely be harder to depict the body language.
Oh yeah, I it was already weird for people to excuse her (lacking) political worldview when she was 16. Makes even less sense now. But from a social aspect, it’s important to remember that she’s still a rather young neurodivergent woman in a political environment that usually doesn’t receive either of those, despite liberals claiming to be so progressive. I mentioned her age there only because she’s surrounded by people who might have twice her age so it’s natural for her to look out-of-place. So many comments against her person (and not her bland ideology) can at best fail to take this context into account and at worse be malicious.
It’s always best to take care with that and be aware of it. I really wouldn’t enjoy people assuming they can read my body language in a picture for instance.
I wasn’t criticizing her appearance.
I was saying she seems to know what she is doing isn’t right. But fair, could be an inaccurate assumption on my part, and she may indeed think what she is doing is somehow okay.
Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to say you were criticising her appearance or anything of the sort. It’s just that us brain weirdos tend to look weird in pictures (and out of them) in ways that might look like some kind of “body language” to the neurotypical observer. Even “normal” people have that happen to them a lot too. It’s generally hard to parse such things from a picture, which is why I felt like pointing that out.
I know and am also not what people would call normal. I have panic attacks on the regular in crowds and can’t even grocery shop during certain hours of certain days because of it. Also been involuntarily hospitalized a few times as well. Since I’m also a USian this stuff costs me between $10k - $20k USD per year, the variation depending on how good my insurance is amd how bad a given year is for me.
I’m not the flavor of neuro diverse Greta is, but I try to be aware of these things.
Greta, I’ve noticed, exudes a lot of confidence and poise when she is in her element, which is the environmental activist sphere. As I suspect she should be since she is actually very well educated in. When she speaks or poses for pictures or whatever while doing things related to these matters, she is clearly confident.
But she isn’t all that knowledgeable about imperialism. Or geopolitics. Or socio-economics. Or the NATO/Russia/Ukraine relationship.
So here she is, likely having already spent several hours already with these people, who would’ve been talking to her about shit she knows next to nothing about, appearing uncomfortable in the photo shoot. Because she is out of her element and knows it.