In a group on the app LINE, I read a discussion about how we can learn English more reasonably and effectively except in the public schools we attend. I remember my case... When I was in my 30s, and already had become a terrible heavy drinker who just wished for death every day, some friends who were also bookworms recommended I should go to enjoy learning English again at any private school. Yes, I would do that if I could... To be honest, I am an autistic, handicapped person and therefore can never work as a full-time worker, therefore I am very poor (so, at that period I had to live with my parents).
In those days, I must have been haunted by the stubborn bias that said any English school needed much money for me. Maybe that bias led me that I must endure anything I gave up to do anymore... at least, I had to give up "human" happiness which every neurotypical one could enjoy. Yes, you would think it must be ridiculous simply. However, imagine the days when we hadn't gotten used to the terms "autism" and "ASD", the days I only had to live the lonesome, abandoned life without the current connection (yes, the connection with YOU who are reading this text now).
But, the time has changed (as I have written in these texts). At 40 when I started learning about myself as an autistic person, who might have any good points the same as bad points, someone (probably my job coach) told me that there is an International Association in this city that also keeps on holding the English conversation classes very reasonably. So, I decided to join the class for the first time.
Although all I had only expected were reasonable learning opportunities, some students in the classes started praising my English and becoming friends of mine actually in real life (and even, the teachers also have done!). Of course, private schools must have great effects on their methods. All I want to say is that I have been able to learn and get various great harvests in the process of learning, therefore I'm very grateful for the real connection, even though I can't deny so-called the "virtual" connection's fascinating taste.
