After years of depression, eating disorders, and anxiety attacks, she finally receives a medical diagnosis: Aspergers syndrome, high-functioning autism, and OCD. She also suffers from selective mutismwhich explains why she sometimes cant speak to anyone outside her closest family. When she wants to tell a climate researcher that she plans a school strike on behalf of the environment, she speaks through her father.
Wow.
Yeah. I never knew that! So she’s basically a ventriloquist’s dummy for her idiot dad on top of everything else?! I’m close to feeling sorry for her. Kinda.