Accessibility – Silje Elsrud Yttervik

Maps of Happiness: On the Hidden Geographies of Life

A reflection on the places, people and versions of ourselves that guide us towards the existence of happiness.

What if happiness is not a destination, but a geograpical line we reach through time?

The life I am still building

When we are born, there is a ‘map’ most of us are handed before we are old enough to question it. Depending on who, what and where we are, said map has roads supposedly leading to sucess;
Through independence, a career, a family and good achievements.
Some routes are wide and well paved, while others are narrow, expensive – or difficult to find all together.
And somewhere along, we are told that following these roads – in the right order, we will arrive at a good and happy life; where we are expected to have become someone.

But what happens when these maps are drawn out without the variation of human bodies in mind?

For many disabled people like myself, the road to ambition stops at a huge roadblock, not yet able to let us go any further. In similar fashion, the road towards independence makes a ‘not-so-small’ detour: towards hospitals, medications, surgeries, lack of job-opportunities, and various changes in what becomes accessible to you.

Our energies are not infinite.
You might have made big plans, but in a body that does not cooperate with them.

These roadblocks are not few – and have a tendency to infect every-single-are of our lives…
– When you want to create something meaningful, but the world keeps asking you to prove that you deserve the opportunity to do so.
– When said opportunity, for no apparent logical reason, requires you to go beyond what your body is capable of.
– And then when shit hits the fan, as said roadblock appears before more and more people, it is those who’ve always been excluded that gets the blame.

The map we were given

As a very ambitious – AND very disabled person, I have spent my entire life so far pushing my body towards the absolute edge of its limits – and paying the price for it in return.
This means learning what I can, and what I cannot do. it also means learning the language of hospital wards, the mathematics of my energy – and the strange geography of a world that does not always make room for people like me.
But fear not! Because my route is not yet finished!

There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting a career, a home, financial independence, a family – or the satisfaction of doing something well.
These are beautiful things to want!
The problem, however, begins when we mistake the arrangement of these things as the finite definition of a meaningful, happy life!

Most societies today are surrounded by a variotion of measurements;
– How much do you earn?
– What do you do?
– How productive are you in life?
– How independent are you?
– How much have you achieved?
– How far have you come towards your goals?

And when that is the daily background noise, whether it be from family, social media or even from your own internalized self; even the concept of happiness can become a performance. AKA; A carefully arranged exhibition of wellness, success and personal growth… And if your life does not resemble this exhibition, you are encouraged to consider – (excuse my language) – what the f. might be wrong with you?!
– Perhaps you’re just not trying hard enough.
– Perhaps you need to be more disiplined.
– Perhaps your ambitions are unrealistic.
– And, perhaps you should be grateful for what you have!
All of which are possible by the way!
And all of which are rational to consider…

But!
There is a particular cruelty in being told to dream smaller, just because the world as it is, refuses to make room for your dreams -thus shut them down with roadblock after roadblock for no logical reason what so ever.

I know ambitions can be complicated when you are disabled. There are many things I want to do, that require more planning than they might for someone else. And opportunities that come with practical barriers. There are days in my life where the current state of my body has a veto in my schedule, whether I like it or not.

But – and this is a big but!
I refuse to believe that the existence of limitations means I should stop wanting things. And I refuse to believe that a disabled person should be less ambitious in order to be more acceptable to society.

And I refuse to confuse a difficult route with an insignificant destination.

A different geography

Whether we like it or not, disability changes the geography of life.
Sometimes the distance between where you are – and where you want to go is measured in kilometres. Sometimes it is measured in personal energy.
Sometimes the distance between wanting something, and being able to do it is not a lack of motivation, but rather a lack of accessibility, support, health, money or opportunity.

Someone ones told me to stay in my lane, accept my defeat so as to not be sad.
But they got it completely wrong.
Because, the potential of my ambitions makes me happy!
And disabled or not, a dream can remain important while the route towars it changes…

If there is one thing I wish were more apparant about disabled lives its this;
We are not all standing at the same starting point, looking at the same road, with the same supplies in our backpacks.
– Silje Elsrud Yttervik

Some of us have spent years learning how to navigate our presence and existence in the world; becoming experts in our own limitations, long before we were old enough to understand why the world seemed so diffucult.

Some have had to learn the difference between accepting what is real, and surrendering to what other people expect of us.
That in itself is a strong distinction, and does not only apply to people with disabilities!

I can acknowledge that my body has limitations, withouth deciding that my future must be limited to said limitations:

I can plan around my health, without making health the only thing to plan around.
I can be ambitious and still need help.
I can take time to rest and relax – and still be serious about my work.
I can have a life that requires adjustments, and still want a life that is rich, meaningful, creative and full of possibilities.

A different route in life is not a smaller life.
It’s a different route.

What if happiness is somewhere else?

Perhaps one of the strangest things about the concept of ambition, is that it can be so closely tied to a spesific destination that we forget to ask whether we actually want to live there.
– Silje Elsrud Yttervik

We are told that happiness comes,
– With the perfect job.
– With financial success.
– With a beautiful home.
– With a good relationship.
– With the perfect body.
– With the perfect family.
In general;
– With the version of ourselves that has become entirely satisfied, achieving all their goals.

But, I believe that for most people,
happiness is not a destination marked on the map. Instead, I view it as a collection of places, people and experiences that make us feel the most like ourselves.

For me, that might be things like playing board-games for hours with my gamer-friends, or having lunch with my girlfrinds in between busy days. In having a fun conversation on the phone, or a walk in the forest behind my house, or visiting known museums while travelling to other cities/countries.

I also find happiness in truly personal things; like curating a safe, calm, clean and beautiful space just for my own pleasure – or listening to music on headphones at home, being completely enmeshed in my own creative headspace.

And it lies here;
in the freedom of knowing that while I have not completed all my dreams thus far – I still have time.
There’s still a road in front of me.

The map is not finished

My vintage-inspired globe placed on the desk with books, a bouquet of dried flowers, candles, and old writing supplies.

I do not know what my future will look like.
I know some of the things I want, some of the obstacles I will face – and I know that there will be times when I need to change my plan(s).

Some of these routes will take longer than I would like. Some things will require help; things I want to create – and directions I want to take, and versions of myself I have not yet met.

But more than anything, I think it is worth remembering, that as the world becomes eager to tell us how our lives should look – and as disabilities are treated as a reason to lower standards rather than a reason to rethink the structures around us;
a meaningful life does not need to follow the map given to us!
To not conflate ambition with achievement – or happiness with productivity.
These things are not the same!

And lastly, perhaps the most important thing we can do is to learn to distinguish between the things we cannot change, and the things we have not yet been able to imagine differently.
This is where true potential lies. And a possible beginning!

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A small task for the week: Draw your own map!

I want to invite you to do something a little different this week.
Take a piece of paper.
On it, draw a map of the life you are building. You can use roads, rooms, islands, stairs, rivers – or just simply words scattered around.
Then ask yourself;

1) What did I learn that a good life was supposed to look like?
Which expectations did you inherit from family, society, school , work or social media?

2) What do I actually want my life to contain?
What matters to YOU specifically?

3) Which ambitions are still alive in me?
What keeps returning, even after dissapointment, illness, uncertainty or time?

4) What would make those ambitions more sustainable?
What support, resources, adjustments, boundaries or changes might help?

5) Where do I already feel like myself?
Places, people, activities or moments.

6) What is one small thing I can do this week that belongs to the life I am building?
A small move towards something bigger

– Silje

The Workplace Was Never Really Built for Everybody – But It Could Be

Maybe I’m not bad at working.
Maybe I’m just bad at pretending to be able-bodied.

Throughout my entire life, there is a certain kind of advice I’ve heard over and over again, as if on constant repeat on the radio. The advice has not always been directed at me specifically – but rather, directed at everyone that don’t neatly fit into the tiny square box human beings (and their entire personalities) are supposed to fit intoo.

And I just happen to be one of them.

From a work-related point of view, it sounds something like this:
– Be more disiplined,
– Become more resilient,
– Take more responsibility for your career,
– Push through any obstacle,
– Just find a way.

And, don’t get me wrong – this is not nesessarily bad advice!
I am a firm believer in personal agency. I believe we all have a personal responsibility for the choices we make, to learn what we can do, and build the lives that makes sense for the people we are.

However – there is a massive problem with the way this advice is usually delivered.

First and foremost, when these types of advices is made, their deliveries assumes the issue is always the individual. That a person lacks these things in their daily lives, and that gaining it would settle everything for the better.
And that is just not the case!

Sometimes the problem at hand has nothing to do with the individual- and everything to do with the environment said individual is asked to function within.

And by marinating in these thoughs regarding my own life, I’ve come to a few conclutions throughout the years.
Conclusions like;
I lack neither disipline nor resilience in relation to work. But there are career obstacles and pathways (litterally) cut away from me, due to things completely out of my control.
Thus, I cannot take any responsibility for its prospects either.

Because, maybe its not that I am bad at working. Maybe I’m just bad at pretending to be able-bodied, in a system relying on pretence.
Which probably explains why I love the concept of remote work so much.

We have confused a ‘workplace model’
with the concept of work itself.

When most of us picture a «proper job» many of us picture roughly the same thing:
– Wake up
– Commute
– Arrive at workplace
– Stay there for X amount of hours,
– Attend meetings
– Answer messages
– Seem visibly productive
– Go home

– Do it again tomorrow…

Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with this type of model. And plenty of people thrive within it.

But it is only one model of working, yet we have all somehow allowed it to become ‘the measurement’ of whether someone is a «real» worker.
And the issues with this type of measurements are plenty – as it entails that:
– If you are able to be physically present for eight + hours you are committed.
– If you need to work from home you are difficult.
– If you need flexible hours, you lack disipline.
– If you need frequent breaks you lack resilience.
– If your health fluctuates, you aren’t reliable (if you’re even hired at all).

This matters!
Because – it means that we cannot solve the problem by just telling disabled people to try harder.

And if your body makes conventional employment impossible?
Well, then you are always the problem…
Except that employment outcomes for disabled people tell a very different story throughout the world…

The International Labour Organization’s research has found substantial disparities in employment, unemployment, and earnings between people with and withouth disabilities. Importantly to note, these differences cannot be adequately explained simply by education, experiences or occupational category. Many disabled people have higher, wanted educations. Many of these people have also had a variety of experiences before becoming disabled.
Instead, the research concludes that the barriers made for hiring are for the most part structural. This includes structural discrimination towards a disabled workforce, a structural lack of accomodation for a potential or already existing disabled worker- and a structural inhability to alter the organization of ‘work’ in itself.

What if we designed work differently?

Now, obviously – I am not claiming that we should make all and every workplace remote, just because I find remote work better for my physical disability and mental health prospects. That would be impossible.
Similarly, I do not think that remote work is necessarily the answer for everyone, disabled or not.
Certain types of work need workshops, some people thrive in offices – and some form of work obviously require a physical presence.

The point I am trying to make is much simpler:
– Why should one particular way of working be treated as the default, when potential workers don’t come in one particular configuration?

The ILO’s research has already recognize many of the things that can make employment more accesible. Their own guidance on workplace adjustments, for example, includes aspects like the modification of both working time, job content and work organizations – as well as both physical and tecnological adjustments. The EU similarly treats reasonable accomodations as an important part of enabeling people with disabilities to participate in employment.

So, perhaps we should stop thinking twice about accesibility as something we reluctantly bolt onto a workplace after a disabled person arrives – and instead treat accesibility as something embedded in the design of said work in the first place. That way it can be valuable to everyone when in need of it.
And there is a number of ways this can be done, by default.

Let «Presence» stop being the definition of productivity

If a task can be completed remotely, why must it necessarily happen in an office? This does not remove the potential for office work – it simply adds choices for each individual to make.
After all, if an employee produces exellent work from their kitchen table, does the work somehow become less valuable because their manager couldn’t see them do it?

I have never understood why visibility has become such a close relative of productivity. Unless it’s based on the need for control – and the lack of trust, In which I would say that the company has much bigger issues to handle.
After all, someone could spend eight hours in an office and accomplish very little (been there, done that!) – and someone else could spend four hours highly focused at home, and produce something exceptional (once again – been there, done that!)

The number of hours someone is visible to an office manager, should not be the same as the value they create.
Make Flexibility ordinary

For some disabled people, having flexibility in ones daily life is not a luxuary; it is the one thing that makes employment possible for them.
Perhaps someone works better later in the morning, or need various breaks throughout the day.
Perhaps they can even work for several days being excellent, before they need a quiet day to themselves.
Perhaps medication affects their energy, or they have regular hospital appointments (usually within work hours).
Perhaps their condition(s) – and with that their health, fluctuates during the seasons.
And perhaps they are still exceptional at their work!

A flexible workplace does not necessarily mean lowering ones expectations, it just means changing when and how various employers reach them.
Designing for fluctuating health-aspects

This is probably one of the things we still have remarably poor understanding of in society.
We often imagine poor health and disabilities, as something which is static in its nature;
– You have a wheelchair = you need a ramp; problem solved!
But many disabilities fluctuate…
Some days are good! Some days are bad! Most days are somewhere in between.
And sometimes, a person’s health can change dramatically, withouth warning.

For someone like me, for example, an epileptic seizure is not something I can scedule neatly in between meetings. Similarly, various seizures might come in the daily – and need various types of recovery.
There may be medication changes, leading to a severe change in physical and/ or mental health (for better or worse):
There may also be periods where my brain needs more rest than usual (as in up to 17 hours of sleep). This does not nesessarily mean that I am incapable of working all together.
It means, however – that my capacity is not identical every single day. And that said capacity might change through the year(s).

Personally, I think a good workplace should have mechanisms in place for temporary adjustments and recovery – instead of treating every change in health as evidence that someone is no longer employable.
Stop measuring endurance instead of contribution

In many ways, this might be my biggest issue with modern productivity culture when within the workspace. Because today, we highly admire, and look up to endurance, with little knowledge of needed restitution. AKA;
– How early someone wakes up
– How late they work
– The amount of meeting they attend, and email they respond to
– How little they sleep.
– And how much they can squeeze intoo a day.

And as someone who used to have a large #FOMO mindset in my late teens, early twenties (with nothing to show for it other than draining myself out of energy) it is completely nuts!

None of these ‘endurance’ metrics tell us anything about how valuable a person’s work is.
Because, on the one hand – the work could be exceptional.
On the other, it could be complete trash.

And I do not want to live in a world in which whoever can pretend to be A-OKAY for the longest takes the prize, completely regardless of the quality of their work, the quality of their health and the quality of their contribution.

Instead, I wish for a society where the quality of what someone contributes actually matters. And disabled people definately have valuable contributions. This could be through things like:
– Inside knowledge related to healtcare
– Out of the square box creativity and art
– Life experience similar to aging
– Ability to problem solve, do to a daily need to do so
– Entrepeneurial research, leadership and skills

Oftentimes these contributions come from simply looking at a problem from a different angle. And while our bodies might work differently, that does not mean that our minds, ideas or contribution is less valuable.

And then there is the question of accessibility

There is also another aspect not discussed enough;
Because – what if we stopped waiting around for people to become disabled before making workplaces accessible.
Clear communication is better for everyone. Good digital accessibility can help everyone. Quiet work environments can be better for everyone.
The possibility of remote participation can help everyone. Flexible possibilities within a predictable sceduling can help everyone. Ergonomic and healthcare possibilities can help everyone.

And when workplaces are designed with these variations in mind from the beginning, it results in less friction, less discrimination and more possible opportunities – for everyone!

The cost of exclusion

Furthermore, there is also something rather «strange» about the way we talk about accomodations.
We ask «how much will it cost to accomodate this employee?»
But as a society, we don’t ask «how much will it cost to exclude them?»

Most people want to participate something to the society they live in. But when the labour market (in practice) has put a ban on accomodation for certain marginalized groups, and discrimination towards disabled people are allowed to run wild, most of us feel left out.

And, as mentioned earlier – the ILO’s reasearch shows that the employment and wage gap experienced by disabled people, cannot simply be explained away by inexperiences in education, or actual labour experience. Many of us have plenty to offer. Instead, it is the various system(s) currently in place that are unable to recognize it.

And no,
I don’t believe we can do absolutely everything!

With all this in mind, I do still want to be really clear here. Because, I do not believe in the typical aspirational version of disability usually shown online, in which we are told «You can do anything if you believe it hard enough!».
No, I can’t!
That is not me trying to be edgy – it’s (in my case) a litteral, legal fact:
I cannot drive a car; The law prevents me from doing so, due to my epilepsy.
Similarly, a blind person cannot decide that their sight will return just because they want it to. And, someone paralyzed who uses a wheelchair cannot just decide to get up on their feet because they want it.

Can we work towards it (whatever it is) – if such training is possible and avalaibe?
– Yes.
Does said training automatically mean that we will succeed?
– No.

You can only control what you can control.
And at least to me, that is a much more empowering philosophy than pretending my limitations don’t exist.

To (once again) use myself as an example;
– I can control how I treat myself: (eat, sleeep, possible routines and hobbies). I can adapt and develop my skills, ask for help when in need of it. I can take a good look at my actual limitations, and consider which of these are worth pushing, and which are nessesary to just take into consideration.
So, from a more practical side:
1. I can not drive a car (yet), as I need to be without a seizure for at least a year before doing so. And I can not control my (at current), daily seizures.
2. My epilepsy reacts badly to caffeine and alcohol, and my seizures gets worse from it.
I can control what i consume, so that my seizures don’t get unessesarily worse.

This is personal agency. And while my limitations are there, I still believe it’s possible to build a meaningful life, by just building around them.

Perhaps independence isn’t the goal

In a way, this is also why I’ve become Increasingly out of it, in relation to how we speak about independence.
We are told from childhood that beeing successful means needing nobody. Doing everything ourselves. Working full time, living alone and never asking for help.
But human beings were never actually degined that way. We were created interdependent; we need other people.
The difference is that to many disabled people that reality is made much more visible than to others, from a relatively young age.

The Workplace was never really built for everybody

As we are approaching the end of this, I want to preface that I don’t want a future where disabled people are «graciously permitted» to participate in a workplace designed for somebody else.
Instead,
I want something much more ambitious!
Workplaces designed with human variation in mind. A place where fluctuating energy, brainchemistry, health and the general circumstances of life – varies.
As all lives do.

– I want remote work to be an option in professions that doesn’t require office-attendance.
– I want flexibility in scedules to be seen as a working tool rather than a moral failing.
– I want accomodations to be a normal part of work etiquette, rather than a reason for humiliation and discrimination within the workforce
– I want productivity to mean contribution instead of endurance.

And more than anything, I want becoming disabled to no longer automatically mean loosing your career and livelihood.
And for those of us disabled to be able to proudly say «This is what my body can do. These are the conditions I need. And here is what I can contribute» – and to say it with a spine.

The problem has never been that disabled people can’t work. It’s that we can’t work inside workspaces designed without us in mind.

BUT if we were to re-design it, perhaps the same workspaces that were never built for everyone, could become one that is!

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A small task for you

This week, think about your own ideal way of working.
Not the job title – or even the salary attached to it.
Not even what society claims a «sucessful career» should look like.

Instead ask;
– What conditions would allow me to do my best work?
Write down the first three that comes to mind.
– What would have to change – in me, my workplace or in society, for those conditions to become possible?

You may discover that the life you want isn’t as impossible as you once thought!

– Silje <3

The Distance Between Us: Remote Work and the Disabled Reality

Back to 2020 – The Year Everything Shifted
When the world shut down in 2020, many able-bodied people experienced working from home for the first time.
During this time, they discovered what disabled people had been saying for decades:

working from home reduces energy use
commuting should not be a moral work requirement
the choice of flexibility creates healthier days, and happier people
the concept of productivity is not tied to litteral office-work

Since then, the years that followed has left even more people permanently changed. Long Covid rose globally, and chronic illnesses increased. It was as if – over night, millions of people were suddenly living in bodies they couldn’t recognise; bodies that behaved vastly different than they did before.

So, when the world suddenly decided it was «time to get back to the office»
many newly disabled people were unable to do so.
Suddenly, remote work was not just a convenient option. For many it became a lifeline. And for a moment, for many of us who were already disabled pre-covid, it looked like the future work-marked would finally include us.

But then comes the real question – the one I’ve been asking myself more and more lately; was remote work ever built with disabled people in mind?
Or was it just built for the able-bodied people who temporarily needed it?

The Promise of Remote Work
Remote work holds enormous potential for disabled people:

fewer sensory triggers
more control over energy and environment
the ability to rest, stretch and manage a variety of sympoms
no inaccesible public transit
flexibility around medical appointments
lower social pressure

For many of us, remote work felt like the beginning of a revolution. A moment when the world caught up to the reality disabled people had lived in all along.
But as we all should know by now, potential is not the same as design,
– and accessibility is not the same as inclusion.
While remote work it has the potential to be extremelty liberating – it is often designed and illustrated as the digital version of jobs, with the same structural barriers as before.

Thus, many disabled people report; stricter scedules, despite the word «flexible» being featured in job descriptions. Others experience «zoom-fatigue», especially for those of us with neurological or sensory disabilities. Furthermore, while it varies between countries – some employers have expected constant availability, and several organizations lacks clear accomodation policies.
Many disabled workers with cognitive or physical needs – have also experienced the lack of adaptable digital tools – which makes remote work difficult, if said tools are nessesarry to be able to work in the first place.
Others have also experienced a pressure to keep their cameras on, despite it being unessesarry for the work they do.
And lastly, many employees experienced a form of isolation without proper support – infrastructure, which can take a toll on anyone .

Truth be told, remote work only seems inclusive, when the people designing it assumes everyone doing it is able-bodied.
And so the hopeful dream quickly becomes another exhausting reality check.

My Own Experience: A Disabled Worker in a Digital World
As a disabled individual, I can during good weeks work up to 40% – if I’m careful.
I have creative skills, practical experience and education
– as well as a genuine desire to contribute something meaningful.
Remote work should, tecnically speaking be the perfect sollution for someone like me; someone who are perfectly able to work by themselves – but also unable/ unnalowed to take rushtime public-transit or drive a car.

Yet, in the past few years, none of these things have helped me, because I don’t know the right people, and I don’t have the energy to go out and fakely befriend them either. Thus, I’ve applied for job after job, with no luck.
Instead, I’ve faced descrimination on interviews, emails, and sometimes even face-to-face. Is this illegal? – yes. Is this common – even more yes.

And I am far from being alone in this!

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Employers seem to love the idea of remote work – until the employee is disabled. Then suddenly, it’s a problem.
It’s almost like remote work is framed as a benefit for busy, high-performing professionals who dreams of flexibility.

But in reality, the concept of remote work has been a basic accomodation practice disableed people have needed for decades.
So, I decided to shift my energy elsewhere. I write. I create. I’ve made my own practice of ‘remote-work’ that is built around my own needs, and my own scedule.
Thus, I’m able to productively use my energy during the hours I have
– and it has made me much happier for it!

Where did remote work go wrong?

«Remote work should not be a privilige.
For disabled people, it’s accessibility – and accessibility is a human right».
– Alice Wong, disability activist & founder of Disability Visibility

The current work model fails disabled people in many ways:

it assumes productivity looks the same for everyone…
Some of us work best in 2-hour bursts.
Some need mid-day rest
Some need to handle medical routine in between tasks.
¨¨¨~Productivity should be measured by output, not through hours glued to a screen.
It wasn’t built with energy limitations in mind.
Fatigue is not the same as laziness.
Executive dysfunction is not disinterest.
~Disability is not something you «manage around»- it’s a reality shaped by body, biology and boundaries.
It excludes disabled voices by design.
Companies build remote work systems without consulting the people who need – and rely on them the most.
~Thus, the systems becomes an echo of the office – not an improvement of it.

What remote work could become – if we chose to listen

While I’ve painted quite a muddy picture, I still believe that remote work could become revolutionary. But for that to happen, businesses – and the world at large needs to be willing to listen, and to do the nessessary work, for all people.

In my mind this is a future where:

meeting default to asynchronous communication
scedules adapt to body rhytms
employers understand energy budgeting
disabled workers help design digital tools
output matters more than presence
camera – off culture is normalized
accessibility is built – in, not added later.

Final Reflection: A task for my readers
This week, I want you to explore your own relationship to «work».
Ask yourself:

What does productivity actually mean for my body?
what daily rhytms supports my health, my body, and my mind?
if remote work felt freeing – how so?
What would a truly inclusive workday/ week look like for me?

Write down your answers, let yourself dream a little.
Because the current systems may not be built for all of us,
but that does not mean that we cannot imagine.
After all, if we imagine enough, we might be able to create new systems ourself, and ask for something better.

– Silje