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@personworm: I'm not really German. I'm a Filipina but I grew up here. My mum said I'm more German than Filipina in my behaviour so I guess that makes me German?

You can look it up here German Dialects

Yea, they do sound different from one another. I lived in Bavaria for almost 2 years and they use different terminologies sometimes, e.g. Brötchen (it's a type of bun, crispy and yummy) in NRW, Semmel in Bavaria)
When I came back from Bavaria some said that I have a Bavaria accent. Now it's gone again though.

@ rurufu: No, I didn´t post a photo here until now
Where in Germany do you live? What are your interests?

@ personworm: Did your mom tell you the story about the boy? I know it and I think it is a well-known story here. It is like this: The mother went out and told the boy not to suck his thumbs. While the mother was away a tailor looked for the child. The mother warned her child that the tailor will cut the thumbs off if he sucks. The boy did and so the tailor came and cut off the thumbs with his scissors.
The original version is written in rhymes. I heard it very often as a child and so my mother, who had to read it to me, can memorize most of it word by word until now.

@Nightingale121: I live in Essen.
My hobbies: umm... Doctor Who and BBC Sherlock. I like reading, listening to music (mostly indie such as Patrick Wolf, Iko, everything everything; prog rock like porcupine tree, Pineapple thief and sometimes classical), Ps3. I also draw and I can write a poem in a jiffy. I love languages: i can do the Scottish accent (relatives say I can) and also Pakistani English accent and some others for fun. I'm anglophile. I also enjoy spending my time with my 12 yr. old son. We play Ps3 together or just hang around sometimes discussing about the documentary films we're watching e.g. black hole, space, etc. (he knows almost all dinosaurs with their Latin names, the time they existed and so forth and also a doctor who fan). We seem a weird bunch I guess hehehe.

What about you? What's your hobby?

I like music in general, so I sing in a choir and play the accordion. Furthermore I enjoy reading, especially crime thriller and fantasy, but I also read non-fictional books when I am interested in the topic.
I like langauges too. At school I learned every language I chose until I finished school although I didn´t had to because I found it interesting. So I learned English, Latin and the ancient Greek. I also try to create my own language.
Finally I love the TV series Criminal Minds and also enjoy watching other crime thrillers, fantasy movies (like Lord of the Rings) or documentaries like Quarks & Co.

Ooh yea, Quarks & Co. I loved that show too but lately we're either watching N24 or Phoenix.

Do you still go to school?

No, I finished school last summer. Now I work as a volunteer since October. It´s a FSJ (FSJ = freiwilliges soziales Jahr).

Oh cool! Where are you doing it? Was möchtest du für eine Ausbildung machen?

Ich mache mein FSJ bei einer ambulanten Pflege. Das heißt, ich und meine Kollegen fahren zu den Patienten nach Hause und helfen ihnen dort bei Dingen, die sie nicht allein schaffen, z. B. beim Waschen und Aufstehen, aber auch bei der Einnahme von Medikamenten.
Mein Ausbildungswunsch geht aber in eine ganz andere Richtung, ich möchte sie nämlich in einer Bibliothek machen. Eigentlich wollte ich die Ausbildung schon letztes Jahr anfangen, habe aber keinen Platz bekommen. Aber obwohl es nicht von vornherein geplant war, finde ich das FSJ nun doch lohnend. Es bringt mich, glaube ich, schon weiter, vor allem eben in sozialer Hinsicht, ich lerne da gerade echt viel.
Deshalb halte ich dieses Konzept auch für sinnvoll und auch für andere empfehlenswert, natürlich nur wenn es die Person nicht zu anstrengend findet mit den ständigen Sozialkontakten oder aus anderen Gründen. Aber im Gegensatz zu denen, die das FSJ zum Beispiel im Krankenhaus machen, wo man sich immer auf neue Leute einstellen muss, ist meins angenehmer (auch wenn ich die Situation in einem Krankenhaus nicht wirklich beurteilen kann, weil ich es nur aus den Erzählungen der anderen FSJler kenne und eben weiß, dass die Patienten dort öfter wechseln). Da bin ich froh, dass ich dort nur einen kleinen Kreis von wiederkehrenden Patienten habe, die ich mit der Zeit immer besser einschätzen kann.

Edit: Ich habe gerade in deinem Profil gesehen, dass du als Krankenschwester arbeitest, vieleicht kannst du mir ja was darüber erzählen, wie das mit den wechselnden Patienten für dich ist.

@Nightingale121Hi! I've posted on another Topic that I often get migraine since I started working at the OR. I think it's more stress related than patient related. I don't have to worry about interacting as patients are mostly asleep when I start to work. With colleagues, I ignore one silly nurse who tries to make my life miserable. Others think I'm friendly and carefree. I think it's because I can't relate with how they feel. I sometimes don't understand why they'd act the way they do in certain situations....
I just do the things that I have to do and I think I'm doing it well cos until now there's no complain from the nurse who have me the tasks. She even thanked me.
I never liked at a normal ward. Too many patients to interact with, although with old people you just have to listen.

I can relate I was diagnosed with BPD before to and now realizing it is likely Aspergers. I am 26 myself but been in and out of psych wards since 18 years old and I wondering I am finally figuring out who I am.

Hi pinkgurl87! Yea, it's quite difficult especially since BPD and Asperger's symptoms seem to overlap. I've stopped hurting myself for i think 7 years now or even more. I don't have the urge even during desperate times. What I have is anxiety and still black and white thinking (people say it) and other symptoms that rather point towards Asperger's than BPD.
What about you?

Oh, I forgot the colleagues in my post. That´s an interest topic, too in my case. During the time I get better and better with the different patients because I almost always know what to do there and what they especially care about (for example if the water should be rather hot or not so hot during the bath or what some people like to eat).
But the colleagues are sometimes rather stressful because I have to interact with them during the driving time. Two collegues are very quiet and if we talk, then about work-relatede topics. I can do this quite well. But two other collegues are the opposite of this, especially one of them. She always wants to talk and wants me to say something. The topics are most of the time small talk topics (especially the weather) or private things like what I did at the weekend. The problem is that I am not interested in their private life or in the weather. I mean, why do they comment on what I already see like: "Look, it´s raining." If I don´t say anything after this sentence, she wonders why I don´t say anything, but I just don´t know what to say after this except "I see it."
Those conversations are more stressful than the work itself for me. The worst sentence is: "Just tell me something!" I never know what she expects me to tell them, so I just think about it and don´t say very much. I just don´t understand why they do this and what to say.
As far as I know most of the patients also see me as friendly.
Oh, you don´t only have to listen to old people. They often are rather complicated in what exactly and how they want us to do things. But to listen to them is interesting because they often made many experiences in their life and talk about it.

I am new to WP, nerotyp. with a 22 year old son with Aspergers. He was only diagnosed at 19 being depressed and suicidal by then. Check ups from baby on for bowel problems, language, behavior...everybody just checked their own field and missed the bigger picture. For me the diagn was great, not my bad parenting, not him being cross when he walks past/through us, just his focus on something else. He is a wonderful person but sadly stuck in obsessive walking up and down, triggered by worries,I think. He does not know how he feels himself,not evr it seems.
We live in Austria, the book with the thumbs is called Struwwelpeter, featuring the suppencasper, it was used for education and is sick,sick,sick. Different from for example the violent finishing endings of fairytales, children see those as fair, Stuwwelpeter was written by asick mind. So, again, hi to everybody.

I am new to WP, nerotyp. with a 22 year old son with Aspergers. He was only diagnosed at 19 being depressed and suicidal by then. Check ups from baby on for bowel problems, language, behavior...everybody just checked their own field and missed the bigger picture. For me the diagn was great, not my bad parenting, not him being cross when he walks past/through us, just his focus on something else. He is a wonderful person but sadly stuck in obsessive walking up and down, triggered by worries,I think. He does not know how he feels himself,not evr it seems.
We live in Austria, the book with the thumbs is called Struwwelpeter, featuring the suppencasper, it was used for education and is sick,sick,sick. Different from for example the violent finishing endings of fairytales, children see those as fair, Stuwwelpeter was written by asick mind. So, again, hi to everybody.

I am new to WP, nerotyp. with a 22 year old son with Aspergers. He was only diagnosed at 19 being depressed and suicidal by then. Check ups from baby on for bowel problems, language, behavior...everybody just checked their own field and missed the bigger picture. For me the diagn was great, not my bad parenting, not him being cross when he walks past/through us, just his focus on something else. He is a wonderful person but sadly stuck in obsessive walking up and down, triggered by worries,I think. He does not know how he feels himself,not evr it seems.
We live in Austria, the book with the thumbs is called Struwwelpeter, featuring the suppencasper, it was used for education and is sick,sick,sick. Different from for example the violent finishing endings of fairytales, children see those as fair, Stuwwelpeter was written by asick mind. So, again, hi to everybody.

@mitzi. I'm not that familiar with Struwwelpeter. But yep, I've heard it's quite a brutal story for kids. Maybe it's a cautionary tale?