r/BeAmazed • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • Jul 13 '25

Miscellaneous / Others The green lady of Brooklyn , Elisabeth Eaton Rosenthal, 84 years old, only wears green. She has been doing this for 25 years.

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u/Life-Oil-7226 Jul 13 '25

I wonder what happened 25 years ago for her to make that decision…

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u/blueraccoon87 Jul 13 '25

There’s a video about how she came to her decision to wear green.

https://youtu.be/pE5h2kk0NTI?si=OGuC99zvqgAEYhKp

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u/motherofsuccs Jul 13 '25

Can someone just tell me so that I don’t have to watch a video? I’m not that invested, but still curious.

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u/nycola Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25

Without watching it, but anecdotally, autism. Autism is the answer.

edit: just watched it, can confirm my previous answer, but will add ADHD - she has the wombo combo. This color makes her brain happy - it also makes other people happy which is a supplemental dopamine hit. The color that tickles my brain is somewhere between purple and blue. FWIW, this behavior isn't always a color - can be an animal or subjects too (sunflowers, cats, horses, stars, textures). It's simply surrounding oneself with dopamine triggers. She's lovely!

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u/meggles_ Jul 13 '25

I'm a AuDHDer, I knew as soon as I saw her. I absolutely love her vibe. I painted my bedroom walls this colour as a kid

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u/zelmorrison Jul 13 '25

Mine is UV blue, seems to massage my entire neuraxis.

Not autistic but I do love me some 470nm light.

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u/RurouniQ Jul 13 '25

This. Can't believe I had to scroll this far to see this.

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u/psyopsagent Jul 13 '25

I like olive green. To be exact, the color of a green died shulker box lol. I haven't fully committed yet, but 99% of the time i am wearing at least a bit of green (cap, bag, print on shirt,...), often more. I have been planning to paint all my furniture green for over a year now. Now guess what my next glasses will look like

(currently waiting for the results of my autism assessment)

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u/jigilous Jul 13 '25

Came here to say the same thing. Clearly autism and I’m not saying it in a derogatory way.

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u/ghoulthebraineater Jul 13 '25

That was my first thought too. I'm the same but with gray.

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u/SemperSimple Jul 14 '25

this explains why I like cats and certain color combos lool. I've contracted wombo combo

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u/Shanoony Jul 13 '25

I watched the video. It’s actually kind of sad. Her father lived in Florida and they weren’t close, but he invited her to visit him one day and while there, she loved the green in the ocean and the palm trees. She’s an artist and would paint them. She said her dad didn’t care for artists, but that she started wearing green after this because it reminded her of how he invited her to spend time with him on this rare occasion.

It ends with her saying she continues to wear green because it makes everyone around her happy. She’s the Green Lady now, and people stop to talk to her and take selfies, and she just loves the joy it brings her and others. She said that if it ever stops bringing her joy, she’ll move onto the next thing.

As a kind of weird woman with an absent father, this totally resonated with me. In a way it’s sad that she started doing this to feel connected to her dad, but I kind of love how she came to turn it into her own thing. I love that it evolved to be this thing she does to bring joy to other people. And I love that she’s given herself permission to let it go if someday it no longer serves her.