20101011

Light and Shadows from the past

I'm crying like crazy right now, DR2 Premiere showed the movie "El Orfanato". I've watched it a number of times already and it's such a sad and touching film~ No wonder it got a 10 minutes applause when it was aired at the film festival for the first time! (;_・)

This weekend was spend at my parents house ♥ I have only been home 4 times since I moved out in January.. But one of the reasons for this is that the train ride takes about 4-5 hours, depending on which time of the day you take the train (  ゚,_ゝ゚)
The main reason for me to go home was actually not only to see my parents again, but because I had to hold a lecture at Asperggaard.
Some of you know that I've held lectures before, and it's a think I enjoy!
This time I was going to talk to 4 girls, aged 12-16, and their parents - these girls are where I was when I was their age.
Oh, and for those of you who doesn't know; I have Aspergers Syndrome, a form of Autism, and many people have told me, that my story is a success story, that I've been so lost in life and the system, but I beat everyone and I'm now living an almost independent life, this is why I'm doing this.
I learned so much from this lecture, and it was kind of a relief to meet someone who is just as myself. Now I know that I'm not alone to have had such feelings and felt so hopeless - so I'm just very happy that I can give something to these girls, maybe give them a sign that they're not alone and that life gets better ♥
They told me that it was nice to talk to someone who have been through the same thing, and to see that things can be sorted out; it made me so happy that I could give them that!
It was truly an eyeopening evening, and I hope that I'll hear from the girls again! ♥
I thought it was nice that I got to talk with the girls, just us, when my mom got to talk with all the parents in another room - this gave room for questions some might not want to ask with their parents/daughters near.

The arrangers of this event payed for my train ticket, which I thought was a very nice gesture and "payment". But they didn't find that enough, so they gave me another 500Dkr and a nice bag of delicious tea, chocolate, liquorice and jam, wow! My mom and I was very surprised, and both of us want to hear how it's going to go for these girls!

Sometimes I think I wouldn't mind living off of this, I really feel like I can make a difference, and actually help someone. I know that I would have loved to talk to someone about these things when I was in my darkest times, someone who had gotten out of it and was living their own life despise all the difficulties.


Thank you if you read all of this wall of text, haha ♥


I enjoyed being with my parents a great deal, we ate delicious food all the time, mom and I went to the town and bought drawing materials, sat in the garden and drew together with mom, had some good talks with my dad and played a whole lot with Bernhard!
I didn't want to go home yesterday, but sadly school was calling ☆⌒(>。≪)
But I'm going to see them again next week, so excited! I'm going to see my sister Stine too!


I'm sorry I haven't got any pictures to show you, but my cellphone camera isn't really the best in the world, haha.
But here you can have a picture of my banana I was going to eat some day last week. Laughed so much when I saw it! This is what happens when I have guests over;

11 kommentarer:

  1. Sa-chan/Kristine/Isabella in da house ;D

    - Først det lidt sjovere, elsker bananen xD Haha, den er vold fed <3


    Vil lige nævne jeg også vil tillade mig at være stolt af dig! Du er sådan en varm, dejlig, skøn pige og jeg nyder dit selskab rigtig meget. FLOT du var ude og give det foredrag! <3 Du simplethen så sej

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  2. Wow, jeg var faktisk ikke klar over at du har Aspergers oÔ Det er fandeme flot, det du gør Astrid! Du kan roligt være stolt af dig selv og jeg er SIKKER på at de piger har fået en masse ud af dit selskab og dine erfaringer :)

    Den der banan.. høhøhø :P

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  3. From what you've told me it sounds like such an exciting meeting :) I can't even imagine how it must feel like to talk with someone going through the same thing as your did yourself. It must have been a huge inspiration for the girls to meet someone like you, how "beat" the whole thing. I'm so proud, ohoho~
    And you make ME miss your parents when writing stuff like that, haha! Sounds like the best weekend in a long time ♥

    I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT YOU HADN'T NOTICED MR. BANANA BEFORE NOW :C

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  4. Jeg bliver utroligt berørt, på et helt specielt plan når du fortæller om dine aspergers-relaterede episoder. Jeg har jo fulgt dig i gennem en hel del år efterhånden, og det er så fantastisk at se og høre om din udvikling. Jeg er blot endnu en stemme, der kan sluttes til stemmerne, der fortæller dig hvor godt det er gået. jeg er utroligt stolt over dig, og jeg føler vi er vokset sammen. På mange måder. Jeg savner nu også lidt vores uskyldige børnesind. Jeg savner dig altid. tvivl aldrig på det. Jeg håber vi kan ses snart. Jeg elsker dig - Anna.

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  5. Aww, dejligt at du kan hjælpe folk, der har det på samme måde som du havde engang <3 og at det også giver dig noget, total win-win!
    Banan love <3

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  6. Du er virkelig bare en lille vinder Astrid <3! Så fedt at høre du er så selvstændig og endda også så kan hjælpe andre! Min mormor ville elske dig tror jeg... XD (Vi har selv en infantil autist i familien (ældste kusine) som min mormor også tager rundt og holder lidt fordrag om hvordan man som familie kan hjælpe)

    Om nom nom I love walls of text >DD

    mmh... Dén der banan er bare perfekt modnet *drool* <3

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  7. Hvor er det dejligt og vildt at du kan gøre sådan en forskel ! Håber virkelig at du kan hjælpe pigerne og flere i fremtiden! Jeg ville (får det) osse virkelig få noget at se op til, når du fortæller om det hele ! Syntes du er fantastisk Astrid :D !

    Elsker den mister banana !

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  8. jeg gad godt at høre dit foredrag en dag :)
    Jeg tror du er mere end velkommen til at komme en tur til Randers - Hinnerup kollegiet på Østervold.
    Det er et sted for unge med asperger syndrome :)
    det er også der jeg er blevet sat hen.
    Jeg er selv stadig meget fortabt i min autisme, og er derfor blevet vurderet til at jeg skal pensioneres hurtigst muligt da jeg nok aldrig kommer i job. Desværre :(

    Hvis du gerne vil komme til Randers og holde et foredrag der må du gerne kontakte mig omkring det :D synes det kunne være super spændende og informerende !

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  9. Du er for vild Astrid. Du er så vildt åben om din diagnose. Det er virkelig hjertevarmende at du kan det. Jeg blev helt overrasket da du fortalte mig, en FREMMED, om det. Og nu fortæller du det til en hel masse ukendte herinde. Du er en stærk kvinde. De piger er helt sikkert blevet mere end bare inspireret af dit foredrag.

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  10. There is no better feeling than that one; when you feel like your experiences can help other people.
    I'm so proud of you <3 !

    I would love to hear your lecture, sometime!

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  11. Nu jeg lige kom forbi og læste det vil jeg da også gerne slutte mig til.

    Jeg har ikke kendt dig så længe, trods det faktum at vi har gået i klasse sammen siden Januar, hehe. Men siden vi havde de to uger med projekt og siden der generelt er flyttet rundt i klassen og jeg har lært dig at kende synes jeg kun mere om dig. Du er så hyggelig, hehe. Og jeg håber da vi kan lave mere uden for skolen også. Det ville jeg i hvert fald finde hyggeligt.

    Jeg synes også som de andre har sagt at det er fantastisk du kan gøre den forskel og hjælpe andre igennem det du har været igennem, selv om jeg ikke personligt synes jeg mærker noget til det i dag. Men det er også kun så meget stærkere bevis på at du er kommet igennem det hele fantastisk.

    Jeg er stolt af dig. :)

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