Malena Ernman on daughter Greta Thunberg: ‘She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness’

Guardian ^ | February 23, 2020 | Malena Ernman (Greta's Mother)

[tired&retired]

A new book by Greta Thunberg’s mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter’s transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon

One evening in the autumn of 2014, Svante and I sat slumped on our bathroom floor in Stockholm. It was late, the children were asleep. Everything was starting to fall apart around us. Greta was 11, had just started fifth grade, and was not doing well. She cried at night when she should be sleeping. She cried on her way to school. She cried in her classes and during her breaks, and the teachers called home almost every day. Svante had to run off and bring her home to Moses, our golden retriever. She sat with him for hours, petting him and stroking his fur. She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness and little by little, bit by bit, she seemed to stop functioning. She stopped playing the piano. She stopped laughing. She stopped talking. And she stopped eating.

[Fungi]

There is a guy who does a tech show, LaPorte, who is all in for this autistic, mentally disturbed, no nothing precocious little puppet. Leo, get a brain....or back to Canada...

[Mark17]

She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness and little by little, bit by bit, she seemed to stop functioning.

I think she reached that darkness, and stopped functioning, a long time ago.

[decal]

Sure. Worst of all? She knows the crackup is coming fast and is cashing in while she can. Expect the old man to rat on her soon.

[Bullish]

So we have to cancel capitalism and all its inherent fairness in order to appease a simpering, whiny, little immature baby?

I'm gonna’ be sick now.

[hondact200]

Asperger’s with OCD and ADHD. She should stay home. People with Aspergers will focus on one particular problem and think they are the only one who can fix it. Sometimes asperger’s is called idiot savant

[jonascord]

Double handful of Seconal, washed down with a liter of Absolut. At 25, when she is broke and living under a bridge...

Women don't like ugly corpses, so they tend to internalize, rather than go sudden and violent. Although being found in a puddle of vomit with her head in the toilet, and her panties full of feces raises questions...

[Viking2002]

The biggest sickness is that they took a child with obvious mental and genetic defects, programmed and groomed her, and made her the face of a cult which wants to change human history and dictate the direction of future society. And all of it based on feeding an ignorant populace cherry-picked, carefully filtered climate data of dubious sources. Look hard and meet a seething mass of weak minds on this planet.

[Rashputin]

"She makes a sound we’ve never heard before, ever. She lets out an abysmal howl that lasts for over 40 minutes."

If forty minutes isn't an exaggeration, then it isn't panic, it's possession.

[Viking2002]

*snicker* I know, it just doesn’t get old. And it covers so many other topics of concern, as well.

[Nevadan]

Spot-on analysis

[higgmeister]

Judged in perpetuity for her final carbon footprint.

[ifinnegan]

She ain’t no idiot savant.

[dp0622]

That sounds like a potential winner.

Yeah everyone thinks the old booze/pill overdose leaves a pretty corpse.

Not usually.

[dp0622]

Well that’s pretty scary.

Angry and/or bored and/or spoiled and/or ignorant people are easy to manipulate.

And there’s 10s of millions that fit the bill out there today.

[Pelham]

dammit. I was going to post that pic. Now I have to go with my 2nd choice

[dp0622]

lol

I still don’t know what the #### a carbon footprint is :)

How do you not leave one if you just breathe?

[Ratman0823]

[crusty old prospector]

You must not get out of the basement much.

[Viking2002]

OK, let’s have a contest. We need to have a new name for this one. ‘******** Gothic’. Autistic Gothic, something like that. Start a new thread. It ought to be amusing. *chuckle*

[higgmeister]

Double handful of Seconal, washed down with a liter of Absolut. At 25, when she is broke and living under a bridge...

I love it! Your's is better than mine, especially the ellipsis because whatever anyone else would imagine?