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via @stuffifound who wrote: "Admit it, allistic people are pretty weird when you think about it"

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#autism #autistmspectrum #thunberg #gretathunberg #climate #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #climateactivism #activism #xr #extinctionrebellion #fridaysforfuture #mentalhealth

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

@actuallyautistic Future generations will remember a certain autistic activist as "The Great Tune-Berry!"
#GretaThunberg #Thunberg #GreatThunberg

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@DoomsdaysCW @actuallyautistic I never realized she too is autistic. That explains her intense focus and abiity to grab onto and hold onto the task no matter how difficult.

When she came to the US by sailboat to avoid flying, that was the sort of "here's the problem, let's look at ALL the possible bypasses" answer I might have come up with myself. She had what to many would have been seen as two incompatable goals: attend the climate summit, and stay off of airliners. She found a solution, one that a neurotypical person not raised on the water might have missed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, I could swear I remember reading about someone else who attended a climate conference via boat, then got fired by their environmental activist company because they refused to take a plane back. Then got hired back because uh... idiot meet courthouse. What was their name...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There it is!

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/01/16/dr-grimalda/

On 9 October 2023, IfW notified Dr. Grimalda of the termination of his research contract due to his failure to return to Germany by plane from his fieldwork in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.

Although the original plan approved by IfW was for Dr. Grimalda to return by ‘slow travel’, IfW ordered Dr. Grimalda to return by plane after he failed to show up in Kiel on the agreed date. Dr Grimalda claims that his delay was due to visa deferrals, security threats, volcano activity and other logistical impediments.

This was the first known case of an employee being fired for refusing to take a plane to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The settlement stipulates that the contract was terminated with ordinary dismissal because of incompatible ideological convictions between the parties. The immediate termination by IfW was repealed and IfW will exonerate Dr. Grimalda from any breach of contract.

In view of the strained relationship with his employer if the employment relationship were to continue, he agreed to receive a severance payment from IfW when he left his employment relationship.

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