There are some of us that were introduced into this forum by either a friend, a relative or a family friend and after introducing us to this platform we were left at our own fate without any advice or guidelines on how to navigate through the forum but yet we stood determined to succeed and we starting learning by ourselves, getting helps and information from people in this forum, Google, and YouTube and as time goes on we became accustomed to how almost everything is working now and it looked as if we never had a difficult beginning.
I urge and encourage everyone that feel left alone or abandoned when they were introduced to this platform and I tell you that no knowledge is easier to acquire than the knowledge you sort for yourself rather than relying on others to be your road map. Every little beginning has a greater ending as all you need is to be focused and sort to learn more and say less as those are the channel to arriving your destination.
Op you have said many things that touched me, like everyone of us here they wasn't very smooth but here we are today still learning and conquering too, in my university days, if am writing any exam I use to write the way I understand the question with my personal revisions, this is one of the thing that help me here, it wasn't an easy journey, a time when I wanted to give up but I tried as much as possible not to toll that way because as far as one can read and write the forum is very big to get the knowledge you desire in regards to bitcoin unless you don't want to learn.
I have always said it that giving is the worst thing anyone will ever do, let's try as much as possible to continue doing the needful, every one is important here, our ideas are all needed but what we need is to make it count and thats by learning and bring out the best in us.