That's right. Without this forum, my perspective on Bitcoin would've been like an ordinary person on the street. I can say that my biggest advantage is to discover this place in the earliest period. When I look at the people around me, their perspective on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is very different than users of this forum.
There are many people who see Bitcoin only as a get-rich quick scheme or think like only gambling or the stock market. Not many people look at the technological side of things. If they had researched this, they would've adjusted their investment preferences according to that.
For my instance, I could have kept that thought of Bitcoin being an illegal coin only used in dark web and that was the only thing that kept me from investing into it. I don't want any sorts of trouble when I just wanted to invest to something that might give profits or even use something that don't have to involve any third party like falling in line in banks is quite hassle for me already. This whole forum corrected my misconception from that and heck I thought first that I would not even be able to access this site without any specialized browsers like Tor.
Ultimately this forum changes your mind and the minds of some people who think negatively about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. I also had a negative opinion about bitcoin before getting to know this forum. Assume that bitcoin is only a digital asset that will be abandoned and will not develop. I got to know Bitcoin when the bitcoin price was still below $1000 and of course that would be a very good moment for long term investment. But I didn't and thought Bitcoin would never grow. But in the end Bitcoin reached a fantastic price. Now we can see how this forum is very useful for us, to open our minds about the future of crypto. There is no forum quite like Bitcointalk.