my younger friend

Daily writing prompt
Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?

In my late childhood years I had a three years younger friend, I’m calling her HR. She had very significant case of AS/Asperger syndrome and was really a unique person, I’ve never known any autistic person as well as I knew her. I’m mentioning HR in particular because honestly I was playing God with my younger friends, especially with HR and I regret this with my entire core inner being and I so strongly wish I had been more understanding and truly compassionate. I had no clue we had this condition in common before it was too late to apologize in person and I would have really listen to her opinions and vulnerable state, I’m literally in tears for the things I didn’t understand then. I wish I had done so much more and been an equal in real ways. I wish we had many more of our deep philosophy conversations and our unique connection being treated with care.

And I was so lucky to know this wonderful and special young girl, I truly hope she is in good spirits and survived the difficult years we all go through in life.

Takk HR og unnskyld for at jeg ikke alltid forstod deg, at jeg var den som dominerte over de yngre vennene mine jeg skulle satt mye større pris på, du er fantastisk og var gull verdt, jeg glemmer deg aldri ❤

medication and the recovery from deep Darkness

Daily writing prompt
Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

since 2005 when I was 12 years old I got actually psychotic and bipolarity much more strongly than before, I had some bipolarity already in 2001 at age 8 years. But in fact I went 8 years with this strong schizoaffective condition before I got effective treatment and diagnosis of real mental health conditions, I had been diagnosed with autism/Asperger syndrome a couple of years before this but they didn’t listen to me or close family so I got more severe symptoms. But after my treatments started working everything changed and it wasn’t easy at all, very difficult in fact. I realised how delusional I had been and how much the voice-hearing had dragged me down to nothing, how my mood disorder twisted my perspective on life in general. It was very hard, but I kept taking my medications for the sake of my family members well-being, and thank goodness for me to make this choice and the efforts to get even better; still a living project even 12 years later. And I thank my family, my psychiatric nurse and my first psychiatrist for fighting and to believe in my recovery.

It’s really about passion and effort from all directions, both health-care workers family members and importantly also the person within this state of being. I learn something and it goes:

There is Light behind even the Darkest moments.

thank you everyone for visiting ❤

Finnish heritage

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 ❤

My mothers true fighter spirits

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

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 ❤

Heat, too much

Daily writing prompt
What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why?

there is no particular place I never want to visit. But I don’t do well on our Norwegian summer heat; only 30°C is too warm for my well-being and health conditions. Being naturally warm even on very cold winter season days with -25°C makes me quite sensitive to very warm summer environments. I do very well with only a true mild sauna experience and I also appreciate our Finnish and our close Kven roots, the culture around these ethnic minority groups. I cannot imagine what the desert environments really feel within my perspective, when the locals there feel too much heat for their well-being, health.

The Twelve Houses

What book could you read over and over again?

This is an astrology book about the astrological houses in Western astrology. All of the astrology books I own are interesting to read even many times, especially when I need to inspire my true spiritual side and the inner world I carry with me. I have two books from Sue Tompkins and one book from Howard Sasportas being his work writing the book ‘The Twelve Houses’. I have many planets and placements in the 12th house including my Sun and Mercury in conjunction from two different astrological signs; Virgo and Leo. I’m a quiet person in my everyday life and I value being true to my inner world, finding new parts of me within my introspective search.

I love reading different kinds of books from fantasy novels to spiritual/psychodynamic topics and non-fiction as well. And I also enjoy writing, maybe I’ll write something for any person that wishes to learn about voice-hearing and important aspects of Asperger syndrome from my own perspective and experiences.

I’m very grateful for this blog and I thank you all for reading and I hope to ignite the inspiration in people to explore their deep inner passion with mentioning my favourite astrology books and other works.

stop the bullying of Dennis

Daily writing prompt
Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?

I had a classmate named Dennis, he was a farmer boy and they had horses there. It was in the more rural part of our town, and since my mother didn’t own car I used to be a passager on the bus or some adult bring me to this place.

But my East African origin female friend really bullied this boy a lot, and I wish I had made her stop. Btw he was dyslexic and l one time joined the evil ones just laughing at a song one of the Norwegian ethnicity bullies came up with about this poor boy. It’s never a good idea to bully people and be your best compassionate self instead of this tbh quite abusive treatment.

The reason I joined them was a combination of mania, paranoia, voice-hearing, wanted the feeling of being superior to someone. I was myself bullied significantly for being different with my undiagnosed conditions including Asperger syndrome and long-term psychosis. I was feeling shame around my farmer roots and the youth environment (and the adult culture) had dislike of farmers and toward the people of rival towns in our close region.

I wish I had spoken out against the youth bullying this boy, get the teachers to pay attention to our youth culture and to promote equality in actions, not just words.

I’m truly sorry Dennis for not helping you, and I hope your life is good for you now.

Thank you all for reading ❤

my way

Daily writing prompt
How do you unwind after a demanding day?

Having a cup of lovely hot tea, a particular brand of Earl Grey is my favourite. I get cozy sensation from my many wool blankets (including merino wool) and the feeling of being done for the day, being happy and finished with something is one of the best states of mind to be in for me. 

And I reflect on my experiences of the day, it’s so important to really let the mind work through the events and words, sometimes it’s kind of like a connected disconnect in life. Btw I have mental-health conditions affecting my life quite significantly including while on medications.

I feel comfortable in mind and body after some time doing this, especially if I’m suffering pain and then it gets better so I can sleep through the night and wake up with a new perspective.

(Norwegian text, in my native language)

Tusen takk for at dere leser ❤

same same but different

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

This is funny in Norway, and I am Sámi so this fits well with the title. And I assume some of my life will be mostly similar to now, but different still.

I’m going to keep researching our ancestry and appreciate our cultural background. I want to know well the languages that were taken from us by Norwegianization/Fornorskning, (forced assimilation policies) and I’m likely getting traditional clothing from my type of ethnicity and also not forget the beauty of it in several meanings.

I intend to grow and healing wounds, to nurture different relationships and support my strong causes and build my own activism efforts.

We need people in our society to see how connected we are with each other and the Earth, and I’m going to make it into a realistic goal of my own lifetime to fight for the underdogs.

thanks for reading, visiting and for listening ❤

Healing in progress

Daily writing prompt
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

mostly I see myself moving forward with my goal of healing in general, my difficult experiences in perspective different from now. So I really believe I will have grown as a person in several ways and keep evolving this self-compassion. Writing about my experiences of adversity and severe mental illness and being an autistic woman. I can be someones good friend listening deep. I could have a partner that loves me as much as I love them, and you need to learn how to love yourself to really be compassionate with others on deep level.

The question of names

What is something most people don’t understand?

Note/warning: Very much self-critical of my name and I’m in a very dark mood now. I advice to not read if you feel unstable in your identity.

I have one name I don’t like. I really don’t like it actually, I feel resentment just thinking about it. Maybe it will get better when I get my name ‘fixed’ so I feel good about my name identity. It’s a Norse origin name apparently but it isn’t cool enough like Ingvild and Torunn that are great names of respect. I hate my name with a passion, get rid of the stupid four letter word that I cannot even write properly with my handwriting. I’m very feeling resentment toward even my parents for choose it sorry that’s evil of me to feel, to tell the World. Lost in my mind now, the memories are strong how the bullies made cruel fun of me for having this ‘old aunts name’ (that is different from Torunn a pretty and cool name common in 1950s to 1960s just like my name I hate, this four letter name it’s not a pretty name i hate it)

The point of this is to show what it look like inside someone with self-worth issues around names. I deep within know my name isn’t really ugly or wrong, it’s because I am listening to the past hurts of my child self being bullied by people with common names from early 1990s Norway. I hope your days are good ❤

Thank you all and I do wish I liked the name that I currently despise. Happy Saturday ❤

Racism in different forms

Describe something you learned in high school.

important part: this is about a lot of different topics so it might seem very not related to question. But I did learn this in my early to late teenage years, it’s a very big part of my life actually still today.

I had mostly non-European origin friends in my youth and we went to same school and same class. My friend from Uganda had extreme ADHD and troubled with a strong tendency to bullying behaviour, especially toward one of our dyslexic classmates. And I had a Kurdish best friend, we had a lot of fun between severe arguments and ignoring each other afterwards.

We had a Norwegian supremacist teacher who hated non-European origin youth like my friends. He also strongly disliked people like me with undiagnosed, untreated severe conditions and importantly my far-Northern roots. I’m of Sámi/Kven origins as well as Norwegian and this teacher was discriminating against us, both my friends and myself he said to other adults the worst racist comments and related misogyny.

In my time taking Sámi language lessons in a nearby little town I remember once being called strange racist slurs, I was so surprised that young boys were shouting to a much older Sámi girl. 

I also experience this in adult life, people judge by appearance what ethnicity you are and one tine we were visiting another town in our county when a local man asked two men there if they came from our town, but they were instead from Porsanger and local man said in essence ‘you look that way, like not from this town, Saami or Finnish rather than us Norwegians’. Strange man, my grandmother and me had conversations after this, what was he thinking about us we were from the largest city here, that he was referring to.

I’m rambling now, but I felt like writing exactly my perspective on this.

Thank you all for listening ❤

Tea, and being myself

Daily writing prompt
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

1 first I will mention my passion for tea. This include everything from Earl Grey, Darjeeling, oolong tea to rooibos, ginger, herbal and strawberry tea. I need at least two cups of hot tea every day, and I drink with mindfulness focus on the tea experience and my tea rituals.

2 second I’ll mention is writing on my blogs, I enjoy this a lot and it’s both the writing and the reading, the great online community here as well. My life really is different after doing this since late 2023, I’m more aware of my thoughts and the feedback. I’m thankful for my decisions to start this journey and let it unfold natural.

3 third is my friends and family, I need people just like any other person and they often help me get out of my dark moods when I’m in struggles related to my schizoaffective condition. They help me with a lot of things and I’m grateful forever to them, we connect deeply as well.

4 fourth nature outside our house, the beauty of our wonderful view and our lovely garden in the summer, having some cold drinks and getting tan in the Arctic sunshine. Mountains and forests, sea and the diversity of wildlife right outside our doorstep.

5 fifth my Arctic location and the unique features of living so far North, especially the Midnight sun in summer season. It’s all-day light for over a month, the sun does not set and nighttime is not dark at all. I watch the Northern lights when the winter sky is clear of clouds and there is little air/light pollution here. Our winters are very long and we are used to quite cold temperature often at -25°C without the account for the sometimes strong winds.

So those are my 5 parts of everyday happiness. Thank you all for reading ❤

Meeting my father

Describe something you learned in high school.

Note: this is mostly about my relationship with my father as it relates to my life in teenage years.

I didn’t have contact with my father after we left in 1995 due to his addictions and other severe troubles that affected the rest of the household very strongly. But in beginning of 9th grade he made contact with us via advocate/lawyer(?) that he wanted to meet me and we met soon after in a safe supervised setting and spoke together about different topics. But I learn the hard way he was quite unstable and broke promises to share to me important information on his experiences of his biological father and the pictures I wanted to see of him when he was my age.

And he was unfortunately quite manipulative toward me, he tried to make me dislike and distrust my mother along with trying to make me feel very guilty when he was hospitalised for significant injury at his job, I care about his well-being a lot and honestly it was quite cruel to to this manipulative thing toward a 15 year old autistic girl. I hadn’t even got a message so how would I have known this?

But he gave me quite expensive gifts and shared a little information on his biological father and his family. This I’m very grateful for and I know his childhood and youth were extremely hard for him and his family, he was severely bullied and even a victim of racist violent attacks by xenophobic youths who beat him severely with metal chains when he was just 12 years old. His family contacted the police but nothing came of it so they got away with this hate crime.

I love him no matter what and I hope he is doing okay with the poly-drug use and severe alcoholic condition. The school system failed him completely and should face serious effects. There are organisations for adults who were bullied that can help bring the school and other abusive treatments to justice for this horrible things. And I hope also that he gets help for his traumatic memories and the mental-health conditions often related to trauma and adversity.

Thank you for listening and I wish you all a good weekend ❤

mother and the pharmacy like place

Daily writing prompt
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.

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 ❤

Taking my medications

Describe one positive change you have made in your life.

I used to be very anti medication and just thinking I could find another way to feel better. But the reality is that medications help you function much better and it works quickly to calm the worst psychotic symptoms so you can do other activities and feel good/normal in life. So that is on of the most important changes I have made in life, it keeps me alive and be okay most of the time. I’m asking my psych doctor about a different antipsychotic soon because they help me in different stages and the symptoms they work in particular well for.

Thanks for visiting ❤

Have more cups of hot tea

What do you wish you could do more every day?

Currently I drink average of two cups in a day, but my love for tea and my very large variety and amount of them needs at least four cups. So I’m working on it now, there is nothing truly stopping me from practice my healthy habits.

My message tonight; Enjoy sipping the hot tea and having iced tea in summer time ❤

anywhere I’m not

Daily writing prompt
What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why?

any city too big, largest city I’ve been to currently is Oslo and of course that’s our capital city in Norway (I’m Northern Norwegian). Somewhere I don’t know the official language or most of the people there cannot speak English with me. Anywhere too hot/warm; that’s actually the biggest problem of all the examples here. I’m a Northern person who is naturally warm even in really cold (like -25°C outside) winter season weather, my cousin calls me ‘radiator’ so even in our town when we get 30°C in summer I’m just very fatigued and uncomfortable.

but in general all places have some good aspects to them and that’s what really matters.

More about my cousins cats (and my mothers dog)

What animals make the best/worst pets?

As I’ve mentioned in other post my cousin is an animal rights/animal welfare activist who loves animals in general and especially cats. At one point for several years she had four cats in the household and two of them were Bengals, they are very beautiful animals and her children like them as well. They are funny ones, right now they have a single cat. It’s a Bengal and my cousin got her first Bengal cat in 2009 I believe it was. I love animals and sometimes I join my cousin visiting the local cat home/place.

I grew up having dogs in home and my mothers dog is so lovely and eccentric even, she sometimes walks outside on her hind legs with her front legs stretch out, so I call her ‘zombie dog’ because of the way it can seem like it with some strange type imagination. I cannot imagine how life would be without her, she is elderly and our family are lucky to have this wonderful dog as friend for over a decade together.

One sad important aspect of keeping any pet in family/household is how to feel grief of losing a pet friend, a family member either due to hard choices, sudden illness or similar type of unexpected death. So be prepared to experience the sorrow as well as great joy and love.

Thanks for reading ❤

Audio books

What book could you read over and over again?

I love audio books and listening to audio plays/drama is great also, in the old days in Norwegian radio they made episodes of different kinds of stories known as ‘Radioteatret’ in Norwegian language. We used to listen on CDs to these stories and just be within it with the vivid mental images, often listening before sleeping or while on long road trip travel from Finnmark county to Nordland county for 8 hours. So in this case it’s many different books and plays, I love to use my imagination in this way.

Thank you for visiting, reading and listening ❤

forgot to mention

Daily writing prompt
What’s the most fun way to exercise?

moving to music I do every day, close my eyes and embrace the feeling in my inner core being. There is no one ‘fasit/answer’ to this exercise, it’s an individual way to move no matter the genres one listens to or types of dance. I might look silly, but I’m so happy moving to the beat

Just Dance, gonna be okay ❤ ❤

Animal Farm by George Orwell

What book could you read over and over again?

I read this book several times and it is interesting thinking about the history and about our current society. I’m on the left in political ideology, it truly matters to me how we choose to live with others. And right now tonight we have a snowstorm here, still not quite spring where I live in the Arctic North. And the book is so worth reading again and again ❤

Chamber of Secrets

Daily writing prompt
What book could you read over and over again?

Giant spiders and the Basilisk, ghosts (like mentioned earlier Myrtle Warren), Gilderoy Lockheart and Tom Riddle. And so much more, I have been reading it several times over in my lifetime and maybe I’ll read through it again soon?

I enjoy the Harry Potter universe a lot and every book is interesting in unique ways, I like audio books a lot and this makes it easy both getting vivid mental images as well as hearing someone else reading the story with emotional skill and passion.

thanks for listening ❤

Climb that

Daily writing prompt
What’s the most fun way to exercise?

as I have sometimes said on my different blogs I used to climb as after school activity and it’s really quite fun in part because it tests you in several ways more than you would believe before trying. I also really enjoy hiking in Mountain regions and I don’t have a fear of heights so these activities are suited for me. I love nature so much and I could not live somewhere without a stunning view to the sea, the sky and the Mountains and forests around us. Walking is part of my everyday outdoor life, we don’t own a car and I also am epileptic so it’s no driving for me.

Enjoy your favourite exercise no matter what it is, we all have strenghts that we can use to grow.

Both (II)

If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

It would be either or both the characters Luna Lovegood and Myrtle Warren from Harry Potter series. Luna is one of a kind and eccentric, very good-natured as well and I truly admire her persona and deep values. She remind me of my brighter days and being authentic no matter what others believe. Myrtle is like me when I’m in a much darker mood, I’m extremely sensitive at times and we share history of being a target of frequent bullying. I also have a big soft spot for troubled male youth, just like Myrtle.

And these characters even feature in my life experiences with my friends when we were acting to be different people from the Harry Potter universe. I wore glasses so I was often also acting as Harry with our group and I also liked being the villain like for example Draco Malfoy. And in our former house we had a room under the stairs like the Dursleys had where Harry used to sleep in the beginning of first book.

Thank you for reading and enjoy the fantastic in real life, and no limits on the imagination ❤

Peppes Pizza of our old town

Daily writing prompt
What is your favorite restaurant?

in our previous town we always loved to be at the local Peppes Pizza to eat and talk together. It had a nice view to the sea port(?) and the food was good as well. Sadly they closed it after we moved to other town, but they still have a local restaurant right close to it; it’s called Qa and they are known for the food being great and of course the wonderful view.

in my current location I like the local Chinese restaurant a lot, and we have two takeout shops very close to where we live. I must mention we often order from Uno cafe a lot, their lactose-free oreo shake is wonderful and I always enjoy it ❤

So I have several favourites in our Northern Norwegian environment, when I lived in Nordland we very often went to cafe and spoke together over some food.

thank you for visiting my blog ❤

my father took the test

Daily writing prompt
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.

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 ❤

More about common degu

What animals make the best/worst pets?

Note: more thoughts on what I wrote about in previous post regarding this type of pet

We actually did quite well despite our lack of experience taking care of this kind of animal. They are also very cute and funny animals in my memory of them, I think they are good pets.

Here is a picture I found (not mine)

I miss my former psychiatrist

How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

Note: this is partly about Corona virus pandemic and some thoughts about psychiatry in relation to the pandemic. Kind of off-topic, but it’s related to Covid-19 also. Health care was the main things that affected my life in particular during pandemic.

As I said in earlier post my Swedish psychiatric doctor could not travel to Norway for his usual office appointments for over a year. But we had call appointments instead and we spoke once every month through this year of big changes.

I really honestly miss him a lot, my current psychiatrist has not spoken with me for several months and my mental health is suffering so it’s not good. They also are very different doctors in general, he was less authoritarian and more compassionate with my perspective. But I truly hope my current psychiatric doctor will be there now when I need help with the treatments I need to function. And I like having a good relationship with my doctors and health-care workers, so I try and see the positive in every person.

Thank you for reading ❤

Degu and my cousins cats

What animals make the best/worst pets?

In 2003 our family got two degu, a type of South American rodent. They are certainly good for people who know rodent care very well, which we unfortunately didn’t. They had little ones unexpected in early 2004 and it was both joy and sorrow in the years we had them in our house.

My cousin at one point had 4 cats, two of them Bengals and she is a true cat person and animal welfare activist volunteer with Dyrebeskyttelsen to save animals suffering from difficulties and taking care of them, finding new homes. Her cats were/are wonderful pets for their household and very beautiful animals. I like cats and respect their true nature as animals but I’m also really very much a dog person. My mother has an elderly little dog that we love so much, unique and so much a part of our family.

Every animal needs and deserves good conditions for their particular needs and their true nature must be of deep value to the humans living with them in everyday life. Animals are living beings just like us.

My own thing

What job would you do for free?

This is about my life and of course the genealogy is a big part of my service to others in my offline and online official life.

I do some work for so-called free, I’m not rich by Norwegian standards but I’m  okay with my situation at this time. But what I do is I help my grandmother/other older relatives with phone apps and my ongoing genealogical research interpretation and the DNA-testing information. I’ve been researching our families ancestry since year 2007 at age 14 so I know some of my work well and I embrace genetic genealogy as a way of finding out more about our roots and connection with relatives. There are other activities I do that don’t give me extra money but I love it so much to have something to offer other people that I also enjoy doing for my own mental state and well-being. That’s what it’s about at right now.

Thank you for reading this blog ❤

People think I’m a Leo, and it’s true.. kind of

What is one word that describes you?

Note: Very astrology related topics and of course it’s about how I could be described in one word. So Leo influenced truly and double Virgo and a Lunar Sagittarian, etc/osv/aso

The people around me tend to see either my Leo side or my Virgo Rising, but when I tell them I’m a double Virgo it’s often a surprise to them. I’m also a 12th house Sun and importantly I have Mercury and Chiron in Leo close conjunction aspects with them and my Sun and I have Moon in Sagittarius in 4th house. And a fun aspect of astrology is how in-depth and fascinating to think deep about what it really is.

And everyone is special even if they born on the same date and the details truly matter a lot in astrology, something interesting for my strong Virgo perspective 😂❤️👌

Thank you for reading ❤ ❤

Ungdomsskolen eller videregående? (Norwegian education system)

Daily writing prompt
Describe something you learned in high school.

note: this post is about everything related to my experiences in teenage years and read it with this in mind.

Our Norwegian system of youth education is 10 years obligatorisk education/school including ‘ungdomsskole’ and three years of necessary but not obligatorisk ‘videregående skole/opplæring’ after this. I finished ungdomsskole but not videregående because of my untreated schizoaffective and autism spectrum condition.

In ungdomsskolen I learn some from the teachers and books, but mostly learn from interaction with people including teachers in different settings and my same-aged people. And it was hard, being very unfair and sometimes abusive in nature.

One thing I really became more aware of in these early teenage years was my roots and our different cultures in relation to my school environment. I’m of a type of European Arctic indigenous people called Sámi or the old mostly negative sounding term “Lapp” and the native languages are very different from Norwegian language.

I didn’t really get that good education for considering my untreated severe mental-health conditions and in addition the undiagnosed Asperger syndrome made school difficult in many different ways.

And I love learning from own effort and learning from others, my mother is a teacher and we meet every day including now in my early 30s. We deeply value knowledge and real learning, knowing something inside and out, not on just surface that doesn’t stay with you.

I hope the youths of today will see how society really need awareness and passion for big changes in social and political arenas. Without deep awareness and passion we are not really helping make a positive difference.

Thanks for reading ❤

Luna? Or Myrtle? Both

Daily writing prompt
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

This is likely many other peoples answer as well, but I am drawn to Harry Potter series from my childhood and youth years and my character I would wish to be is Luna Lovegood. I used to be that way in my school years except I’m also kind of similar to Moaning Myrtle on certain difficult Mind states. I write about my thoughts like Myrtle and share some of her adversity. I’m the distant strange one, my unusual ways of expression with others.

thanks for listening ❤

Slalom skiing

What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?

Note: This is about my perspective living very close to Mountain nature and how I see the world around. So a little bit off-topic.

As I have no trouble with standing at a height looking down to the sea and up at the sky, I understand somewhat the alpine skiers different perspective. I used to live in a wonderful nature environment (and our current town is so nature beautiful as well, naturskjønne omgivelser) in Mountain region with sea and forests, clear lakes; everything really ❤

But slalom and alpine skiing is a lot of fun to watch and I believe we still have Norwegian athletes at top levels of them. And I likely don’t have to remind people reading my blogs that I love watching biathlon 😂❄️🇧🇻

I like this season change

What is your favorite type of weather?

Right now in our town it is transition between spring-winter and spring (eight seasons) and even if the winds are at times storm strenght (vindkast på 30m/s) we are so happy to walk on bare ground after many months of the winter seasons. What I like most about spring is that it is so different since most of our year is winter seasons and the snow is beginning to really melt away most places. And the Sun is up for so long and daylight early, sun is up at 5 am/in the morning here. So thank God and Nature for the eight seasons and our wonderful planet Earth ❤

Hvor vanskelig det er å være alkoholiker (Alcoholic)

Hva er noe de fleste ikke forstår?

Norwegian language:

Jeg har i perioder problematisk alkoholforbruk og faren min er alkoholiker og rusavhengig. Det er veldig dyrt å drikke så mye alkohol her i Norge og heldigvis selger ikke matbutikker sterk alkohol her. Jeg orker ikke å dra helt til Vinmonopolet på kjøpesenteret og møte en masse skumle tenåringer jeg blir paranoid av og angsten er ikke verdt det. Men også matbutikken kan være utfordrende hvis man velger feil tidspunkt på dagen eller av en eller annen grunn det er mye ungdommer der akkurat da. Jeg er selfølgelig skeptisk til ungdommer/tenåringer delvis av egen meget negativ erfaring med jevnaldrende og nå nylig har tenåringskulturen blitt betydelig hardere og derfor velger jeg tidspunkt på dagen der det er mindre sannsynlig å treffe på dem. Det er fullt av cider på bordet på sommeren her jeg er glad i cider og drikker av og til 8 halvliter av dem sammen med energidrikk så jeg blir ganske beruset av og til. En annen ting er de fysiske effektene av alkohol og til og med effekter på ting man ikke tenker på som alkoholrelaterte sykdommer. Det går selfølgelig også utover sosiale forhold og evne til å fungere normalt.

Takk for besøket ❤

everything or nothing, equality

Daily writing prompt
What job would you do for free?

I personally believe any work should be valued as equal to the person doing it, so either every job for free or none of them. I don’t know exactly if this made sense, but it’s what I thought of this moment.

value everything and every job, every person doing the work ❤

Winter sports

Daily writing prompt
What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?

I really like biathlon (also known as skiskyting in Norwegian) especially, many of our athletes are very good at this and it’s just great to watch even if you don’t watch other sports. It’s really so thrilling seeing them shoot and moving fast on the snow, the talent and combined skill the athletes have. I like summer olympics also, but biathlon and cross-country skiing are big things to watch here in Norway.

Thanks for listening ❤

Inclusive environment

How would you improve your community?

Our family culture very strongly value the refugees, immigrants, ethnic minorities and diversity in general. So I would like to help immigrants feel welcome in our town and on my own part getting to know new people and learn about other cultures. I also as mentioned on other blog would like less noise from the main road we live right next to, and awareness of autistic peoples sensitive hearing and sensory overload.

Thanks for reading this ❤ ❤

Southern Starry Summer Night

What is your favorite type of weather?

We in the Arctic regions have Midnight sun in summer time so the stars cannot be seen in these months. The few times I’ve been to more Southern regions in summer season holiday the sky really is dark, in comparison to our summer.

The favourite things about visiting South in summer season is it’s just strange it gets so dark and the times we saw the visible stars in the night sky ❤

Thank you for reading ❤

Some small dreams of a more fair world

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I’ve mentioned the acting passion I had but I also wanted to be like my mother: a student and a type of activist on the left politically/socially. As I write about on other blog I had conversations online with adults about organic/fairtrade tea and they didn’t believe I was only 11 years old. And I admire true activists so much ❤

Minor surgery in Corona virus times

How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

Note; I don’t know if it’s very relevant to the question asked

I had several surgeries on my foot in 2020 (as well as 2018 and 2019 btw) and I got the first in February and the next surgery in September before my last time in December 2020. It’s not major surgery but major pain still, I have to use strong pain medication for a week after the medical prosedyre at least.

I did heal well from the surgery with good help from wounds specialised nurses and that is a true blessing ❤

And thank you for reading ❤

May Madness

What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?

Always get psychotic in May month, every year; no exceptions for over fifteen years it hits hard. So here are my first hour in May month psychosis:

It’s 4 am in early morning, really close to Midnight sun here it arrive in our town in end of May actually. So it’s not at all dark, I’m really struggle with my thoughts making sense to do important tasks. Like my morning medications I need to remember the different places I keep different pills the most important to get right are my anticonvulsants and antipsychotics or I risk getting much, much worse. I drink something non-alcohol drinks like Imsdal or Battery/Red Bull/other soft drinks together with my medicine. I look at smartphone about different notifications and updates. I listen to music on my iPod during waking hours.

Compassionate listener

Who are your favorite people to be around?

My favourite people to be around are people who truly listen with compassion. It could be a friend, a health-care worker/doctor or a friendly/kind stranger. I really appreciate the people doing this from a place of heartfelt words and actions. If something should be paid work this would definitively be on top of my list.

And also thank you for reading this ❤

Norwegian? Yes, and Kveninnish!

What is one word that describes you?

Okay, so I’m from Norway and I’m around 1/4th far-Southern Norwegian and also around 1/16th far-Southern Swedish. But most of my ancestors lived in Northern parts of Norway and were of mixed ethnicity groups including especially Sámi and Kven/Finnish. As I write in other recent post I’m Kveninnish (my own term) 😂🇫🇮💙❄️☺️👌

Here are my recent MyHeritage DNA-test results;

(Two different tests, both from me)

73,8/77,4% Norwegian

16/17,4% Finnish

4,4/7,2% Swedish

1,6/2,2% Danish

I write more about my family-history in several posts and also on the other blog. I have some quite interesting ethnicity estimates from my 23andMe DNA-test results, btw.

Have a wonderful day ❤ ❤ ❤

Astrological aspect

Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?

I’m quite interested in astrology, and one important part of it are the aspects. Like for example the opposition (180°) the conjunction (0°) and the square (90°) the aspects are the relation between two planets or the Ascendant/Midheaven/other points of the chart.

What makes us unique consists of many aspects, including astrology and genealogy/genetics among several other features. I write on other blog about this topic also. In my own life what makes me in particular unique is my fighter spirits and my kinder side in interactions with others, I have my mental-health conditions and autistic traits also and it does not adversely affect my own kind of different type of compassion.

I wish you happy unique days and I’m also very thankful for this moment ❤

My German language teacher

Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

He was special in several different ways, but what really made me fascinated by him was how interesting conversations we had once I got to know him more. We went to beautiful places in our location like a wonderful beach some half hour drive away. And his interests in deep thought, films, philosophy, music, German language and Eastern spirituality made me admire him a lot.

Focus on nature around

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

Especially in summer season one thing that really helps to cope with darker feelings is to focus on the unbelievable, stunning beauty of our local environment. I’m being completely honest about this, it only works when you have both an open heart and an open mind to take it all in to see clearly how wonderful life truly is.

I stand outside feeling the breeze in my hair, sunshine on my skin, summer season scents and warmth from within and outside. It also brings nostalgic feeling to me, how I used to spend so much time outside in my childhood and youth years. I was outside for several hours often, in the local environment to explore the different places deeply.

So it’s really a very powerful way to cope. Thank you all for listening ❤