Good police officer

The dream of becoming a policeman was saved by a cultural guest, writer Silja-Elisa Laitonen. She survived her childhood, even though life could have taken a different direction.

When the police arrived at the door, the chaos of the home calmed down and Silja-Elisa felt safe. The police were like a rescue angel.

A professional dream gave a direction to life, which was otherwise borne and unlimited. At home, they were drunk and lived without rules. The father suffered from mental health problems and was in various institutions for almost the entire plant during childhood.

At the age of five, Laitonen received a foster family from Jalasjärvi. There he spent a couple of years until he returned home to Helsinki to start school. At home, the conditions had not improved much, but Grandma moved to live near, so she could always get there in times of need.

Laitonen had to take care of himself, set boundaries and survive. So it’s no wonder that her Suviranta novel trilogy tells about strong women. The last part of the series * burden * (oak) appeared a few weeks ago.

Book figure can be found on the arm

The protagonist of the books Raakel is a survivor. He is Lotta in the war and sees a lot of horrors that haunt the mind throughout life, but Raakel does not break. Unlike the experienced spouse of the war who sees nightmares and suffers from mental health problems. From his mother, Raakel does not receive support at any point in his life.

Even Raakel’s career as a female police officer is not dancing on roses in a male -dominated work community. You have to fight and work to work, a lot of work.

It was only after writing the end of the series that Laitonen noticed how many novels have their own lives in his own life, even though the books are placed in the Continuation War and during the reconstruction.

Laitonen also emphasizes the importance of work in his survival. After the wars, many fled their experiences to work, and Laitonen sees the similarity in their own lives. He has worked since the age of 11. Shared ads, sweated in a greasy Mäkkär, and supervised the order as a guard and porter.

– I really like that the mother had a long time to keep her job in the library, even though she was sometimes late for drunkenness. The job brought rats to our lives. \n In many poor families, children do not get any model of working, says Laitonen. \n – The spiral of exclusion is ready.

Raakel’s character is so significant to the plant that Raakel has a tattoo on his arm.

– It may seem pretty crazy and confident when tattooed on the character of your own books on her skin, Laitonen laughs.

Unknown Soldier was a favorite book

For his books, Laitonen became familiar with military history. However, he did not have to start from scratch, as he was happy to read war -related books already at primary school.

It was only as an adult that he realized that the strange interest in war descriptions was some kind of therapy. As a child, it was comforting to read if someone had things even worse.

– From the books, I grabbed the idea that man would survive. I can survive.

Laitonen also recommends reading for today’s young people. Particularly in many books in history, we wrestle with similar problems as it is today.

Laitonen admits that he performed hard at a young age. He couldn’t stay in the corner to cry. It was not possible.

– I had to keep myself, represent myself and take care of everything from my own.

So it’s no wonder that Laitonen is still getting along and doing a lot.

Although there was no security and support from the home, there were many important, safe adults in the work of the department. They were found especially in the Youth Home on Korkeavuorenkatu in Helsinki.

No matter how the main character of the books, Raakel lives on the same street.

When Laitonen was placed in a youth home, suddenly there were adults who were interested in him and wanted to help.

Child protection client

Laitonen was practically all of his youth client in child protection. He himself does not remember everything, but has later become acquainted with his own papers. For the first time he was placed at the age of six.

He has often saved him the support network of society. Therefore, he cannot understand the current government’s surgery policy, which strikes the most in the weaker.

– Even small things can have a great, reversible effect. Therefore, cutting or privatizing services from associations can cause a lot of evil.

In the Suviranta trilogy of the department, the welfare society is just in its infancy, but during reconstruction, help was found in community. The relatives were close and the neighbors were helped.

Today, more help is available, but according to Laitos, people are very alone with their problems. Things and \”meetings\” are handled home online.

Discipline it must be

Laitonen is aware of how the dot has been that his life would not have taken a different direction.

There would have been several events. Like when, at primary school, she threw her mother’s male friend out of the home so brutally that she was flying from the stairs, or when she was hanging out at the worst rebellion of her teenage age-not in such a good company.

A deep dream of a police profession saved him from many situations.

As a teenager, it was customary for the plant to skip metal music from headphones as hard as he could. He was even thrown out of the bus for the noise. When the warnings did not work, fortunately the school nurse said it was not a matter of hearing a police officer. The decibels fell immediately.

Also, the spiral spiral was interrupted by the attachment and the insight of the plant so that even a little bit of a crawl does not look good when seeking to become a police officer.

Getting to Hervanta Police School was an important achievement for the department.

The life of the department has been defined by the child since childhood and setting boundaries. He has applied for things with clear rules and discipline.

– Control and feeling of control have been important. Because I couldn’t control my father’s illness or mother’s drink, I controlled myself.

At a young age, Laitonen dismantled the feeling and aggressions of Judo and boxing. Listening to metal music and playing the guitar also helped.

– I’ve always been a boy girl. Perhaps it started with a rebellion against the mother, who forced me to ballet classes and tried to get the violin.

A few years ago, Laitonen dug his guitar from naphthalene and gathered a band about women. Amygdalah does not play hand -warm rock, but decent metal music. Laitonen has even taken singing lessons to know how to Ör, so that the sound lasts.

– When I was at home with the kids, I found myself needing my own time. I thought that as a mother, as a mother, I could play metal, nothing forced to play classical music on the piano.

Throwing yourself into becoming a writer was terrifying

Army fermentation was a matter of course for the plant. Compared to bohemian childhood childhood, the army’s discipline felt like a safe haven, although of course many squatting was also irritated.

– However, the most annoying was that we women should not have been fucked at all because we were voluntarily there.

Laitonen worked as a police officer for eight years before leaving a full -time writer and screenwriter.

Working and living life have been important things in the life of the department. That is why the writer and the freedom associated with it at first seemed exciting.

– Yes, this is a \”decent job\” too. Above all, I feel like I am an entrepreneur, even though it may be a curse in writer circles. In these times, when the cultural sector is being fucked, it is easier to know that I can always return to the work of the police.

Despite his severe childhood, the law is not a bit bitter. She is in contact with her mother and took care of her late father until he was cared for.

Bad experiences have not wiped out good memories. Laitonen remembers the few nice moments when Dad read him books.

– Mom also brought a lot of books from the library and read. Fortunately, he read a lot of Peppi Long Slipper. Perhaps it made it like that black came.

Survival.

Read the previous cultural guest: The lyricist forgot to be ashamed and became Tiktok-Hitti-as a soma manager for his own teenage boy