Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.
As I mentioned last year on other blog I had my ‘human-etisk/borgerlig konfirmasjon’ at age 14 in 2008. I really felt out of place the whole day, like it wasn’t about me in a good way but to make me feel less than. I was undiagnosed and psychotic, so this feeling that many teens also have was much stronger in me. I was much shorter than the other teen girls and they placed me in the group so I was barely visible, I was not wearing a Norwegian bunad like all the others because I didn’t feel that represented me as a Sámi/Kven youth. We had food at the local Chinese restaurant and my cousin took pictures of me eating. The most painful part was asking my grandmother not to tell a story about something very painful from my past, luckily the story at the end was something different; still a little embarrassing as any confirmation story, but not highly traumatic.
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