as everyone else in it had taken some Finnish before and I never had.
I told her "I'm terrible with the vocabulary, but I'm doing really good with the grammar rules, I love learning rules."
She smiled and said "Ah, you're part Finn."
In reality I replied "Haha, thanks"
In my head I replied, "No, I'm autistic, my whole life revolves around memorizing arbitrary rules that nobody explains, it's literally my only skill."