Wanting to saw Hjalti help others

A young man walked into the sea at Kirkjusand in Reykjavik in the second half of March. The boy was on autism and had been ill for another year. Despite repeatedly organized search experiments, he has not yet been in the search.

The boy’s mother says he would have been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome if that development disorder was still used. Today, children like Hjalti Snær Árnason, who are well -fledged and with great intellectual development, but do not foot in this normal community, simply diagnosed with autism.

Hjalti Snær would have turned 23 tomorrow if he had not had to leave in my own bag for his own illness. On this occasion, Hjalta Snæs’ family will launch a strength project.

Preventive Sustainable Community

The family’s dream is that some kind of sustainable community can be established that would be preventative for young people in the footsteps of Hjalta Snæs. People who have a strong connection to nature and have more opportunities for rehabilitation in such an environment than ordinary institutional and hospitality environments. It would have been a remedy that would have fit Hjalta Snow. They want his story to help others in his tracks.

Gerður Ósk, Hjalta’s mother, says in a conversation with mbl.is that in Akureyri there is nowhere to get services for people in the footsteps of Hjalta Snæs. No one knows what to do for people in his tracks and the only answer is drugs.

There is no rehabilitation in Akureyri and nothing that takes over after people are discharged from the psychiatric ward in Akureyri. Gerður says it is very common for children in the position of Hjalta Snæs to go into psychosis around the age of twenty and that autism overlap with schizophrenia. That was exactly the case with Hjalta Snow, who has been fighting his illness over the past two years, especially.

Hjalti Snær got inside Laugarás – early intervention for young people with psychiatric disorders. That service was suitable for Hjalta Snow in many ways but not at all, and says Gerður simply has come in too late.

However, she believes that if his condition had been better when he entered Laugarás, it could have changed a lot and says that resources such as Laugarás in Akureyri would have saved his son.

Gerður says Hjalta Snæ has repeatedly called for help but somehow like people have not heard. She says no one has shown her son interest and he somehow has not always found purpose.

Summit time on Hjalta Snæs’ birthday

Hjalta’s family awaits family and friends and friends Hjalta as well as all who have a connection to autism for a meeting at the Freyvang Theater in Eyjafjarðarsveit tomorrow at 8 pm.

Music items and refreshments will be offered, and goods will be for sale, but all proceeds will go into the Hjalta Snæs family’s strength project. The stage will be open and people are invited to step up.

A sponsorship account has been opened, which is registered at the time of Gerði Ósk, mother of Hjalta:

Account number: 0526-14-201214

ID number: 050578-5779