Do you know what it's like to be autistic, to have an auditory processing disorder, and to spend the first 42 years of your life in a situation of severe abuse?

Have you ever been told by doctors that people with your level of abuse are dead by the age of 25, that what you have accomplished and surviving it is a miracle? Were you 58 years old the first time you felt happiness? Have you been completely and utterly alone, fighting extreme circumstances just to survive?

I have no idea why you would think I find it easy to pick up other languages. My point was that internationally, in many countries, kids are taught several languages, and that. Internationally, it is the obligation of the foreigner to learn a language - not for the country to go out of its way to cater to very small minority.

Yes, life can be very hard for some of us. Life is extremely unfair. However, to be able to express the kind of view that you have comes from such a place of privilege, it is difficult to comprehend. The bottom line is that if one lives in a foreign country, one has to make certain adaptations, and not being able to speak the language of that country means one doesn't have English bookshops, English movies, English people to understand what one wants to go shopping.

Individual don't make demands that the world adapts to them - they adapt to the world. That is the reality.