“Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist, describes her autism as her ‘superpower.’ ‘Many ignorant people still see it as an illness, or something negative,’ she said on Twitter. ‘When the haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you are winning.’ Prior to her climate campaign, she divulged, she had ‘no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder.”

“Greta Thunberg responds to Asperger’s Critics:’ “It’s a superpower..” by Alison Rourke, The Guardian, September 2, 2019 quoted in The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté