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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 ❤

My mother is my most loved person in my life and she has always been there in my darkest moments, through psychosis, bipolar and even significant overdoses that got me in hospital. Single mother of two and so intelligent, she is a true Gemini with three planets in Gemini sign plus Mercury in Cancer sign, Mercury being the ruler of Gemini it’s important to her astrology. She also helps my half-brother and his children, we all get along in this part of my family. She encouraged me to get treatments for many of my illnesses and she also has her own strong fighter spirits, I love her so much ❤ ❤ ❤

Tusen takk mamma, for at du er her for oss alltid ❤

Daily writing prompt

Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.

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NOTE: kind of sensitive topics

when I turn 13 years when I got my monthly cycles I needed help because I had chronic enuresis and bedwetting and luckily my mother decided to seek help from general physician to help me with this difficult situation. When we had the appointment I admit I often wet myself and also the fact that my cycles were long lasting and quite heavy. My doctor then prescribed me protective underwear so we didn’t need to spend a lot of money and I really needed this aid to function. So my mother really was saving my social life in several ways even if it felt strange wearing it to school in teenage life, my classmates sometimes noticed that I wore them and bullied me saying they would post photos on nettby but I don’t believe they actually did that.

I have Asperger syndrome and was often bullied in general for my way of being different in several ways; I was of different ethnicity than the tall, blue eyed kids and I came to identify strong with my background and the cultures of Sámi, Kven and Finnish peoples as well as my likely Romani/Reisende roots after finding my deep passion for family research/genealogy. And thanks to my mother I could sleep much better and don’t worry a lot about visible accidents at school.

I want to break the stigma around bedwetting and enuresis as well as about period troubles in youth and I hope to be successfully bring hope to the people, including the teenage girls struggles with these experience in life.

thank you for reading and don’t hesitate to seek help from health-care and support groups. You are worthy as you are ❤

Daily writing prompt

Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.

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I don’t know my father and I rarely speak with him, but last year he and his mother agreed to take MyHeritage DNA-tests to help my research and know our genetic roots better in several ways. I was kind of surprised he agreed because he had a lot of experience with racist plus xenophobic bullying and education adversity in the 1970s and early 80s. I’ve mentioned before on blogs with his addictions and more about his very difficult school years, and his past affected me even when not knowing how or why we are so alike in many ways. So it’s about our connection more than anything else.

Thank you for reading this ❤