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I've never really played guitar before.

Like, I learned smoke on the water and louie louie and seven nation army when I was 14, because every 14 year old learned those songs from the time they were written.

But I was always sloppy and could never really play the songs in rhythm and it didn't really matter because I'd get distracted before the song was over and only play the opening few riffs anyway.

I wanted to play guitar when I was a teenager because it is a thing you're supposed to want, you know? I thought it would be fun, and it probably would have been if I'd ever bothered to get good at it, but I convinced myself that I couldn't learn on my own, and I tried to go too fast.

(and, as I've mentioned elsewhere, I have damage to my spine which means my hands/fingers/fine motor control don't really work well under certain circumstances, but in a way that is not particularly consistent or predictable. It's not debilitating or anything, but it's a disability that results in a lot of frustration when I'm trying to learn to do new things with my hands, you know?)