
Whereas I was well into adulthood before realising that whatever was wrong with me was not getting any better, and it took another decade or so to find a name for it. At only 16, she’s obviously been through all the stages – the denial, the anger, the bargaining, the depression – and already come out the other side to acceptance.

She was probably told what it was, how it might affect her life, and she’s smart enough to have got the picture.

There are, of course, many differences between Greta Thunberg and me.įor a start, she learnt she has Aspergers when she was a child.
