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11 Dec 2019, 11:19 am

Greta Thunberg,Yes.

Today Time has announced 16 year old Greta Thunberg as there person of the year.

This is the first time the magazine has honored a teenager,and likely a person with autism as well.

USA TODAY


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12 Dec 2019, 9:32 am

Congratulations to Greta



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13 Dec 2019, 12:56 am

Well done Greta



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13 Dec 2019, 4:53 pm

This is huge for the autistic community.


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13 Dec 2019, 11:22 pm

She great.

Now that kids with ASD are being frequently diagnosed, we can hope to see many more celebrity advocates like her.

Her Friday protests are still going on: Climate Protest. The local protests here have been pretty sad. Even in NYC, the biggest one was only 60,000. Should have been millions.


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14 Dec 2019, 3:55 am

Well done, Greta!



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14 Dec 2019, 9:09 pm

A great day for Aspergers/Autism. Now we must empower all people with Aspergers/Autism to achieve great things in life and make change. I have had enough of us Autistics being shamed, bullied, discriminated and excluded by the non-Autistic population.