Learning Czech
It's like every day English to my autistic wee self.
The autist in me is operating overtime right now. What does this mean? It means I’m having a lot of trouble with cognition of very simple (to “normal people”) things.
Like writing
Reading
Following instructions
Not because I’m a jerk - although god knows I can be and sometimes on purpose - but because you are all speaking a foreign language.
It’s exhausting, overwhelming to have to decipher every thing every one is saying my my mother tongue.
It’s easier to study Czech. Why?
Because all of us in the class have no goddamn idea what is going on.
I’m sorry, you said SEVEN cases?
We are all fumbling and finding our way and the only expert is the tutor.
There’s comfort in communal unknowing, misunderstanding, confusion.