Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.
Our family has Finnish roots, including mostly of Northern Finnish, Tornedalian and Kven origins.
Note: kind of long post about many related topics within culture and my experiences.
The Finnish people are known for many positive features of cultures, and I want to speak Finnish well enough for normal conversations with the native speakers. I have work book of our Kven language lessons from around 2016 and I’m going to read and practice a lot.
But the aspects that really shines is the Finnish sisu of our family, we keep moving forward despite significant difficulties in life. My mother supported me in my childhood and youth years when life was often hard to handle well, being often bullied and suffering from undiagnosed conditions of severe mental illness and moderate autism spectrum. At first in 2011 I was actually diagnosed with classic autism due to my psychosis being that severe so I could not communicate my thoughts in coherent sentences.
My mother was the one who got me into youth psychiatry along with the school nurse. She didn’t stop fighting for my well-being and my education, she is a teacher since over 15 years ago and cares about her students; many are of foreign origins, we are as family very fond of diversity of cultures and ethnicities in general.
I believe we as a society must fight for the underdogs of all kinds, including among many our immigrants and drug users having hard times coping with our long winters and the lack of sunshine during the polar nights here in the far-North region.
Thank you all for reading ❤
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