People are projecting from their experience.
I suspect they're actually "retrojecting" rather than projecting. And that's even less reliable, perhaps, because it's all too easy to fail to appreciate how much society has changed - quite apart from themselves changing - since they were 16. (For some of us, it's not
all that long ago, so that factor's perhaps less significant?)
When they were 16 years old, they were apparently expected (by their peers) to get a fake ID, get drunk, and impregnate milfs.
Well, not the third one, in my case, but I hear you ...
If you succeeded, you must have mastered the social skills required to be an "achiever" in your adult life.
LOL ... I had no social skills then and have none now, either (but that's mostly because I have Asperger's syndrome).
No programming skills or the knowledge of the probability theory are necessary.
No programming skills necessary at all, certainly (people with coding skills, ultimately, are working for people with trading skills), but knowledge and understanding of probability theory and statistics are very necessary, in my opinion, both for trading specifically and for coping with everyday life in general. Just my perspective.
My bet is that you are heavily weighed down with bad habits and other nasties
Thanks for your concern, but I'm really not. On the contrary, I have gradually, eventually managed to turn my mental state to my advantage by acquiring highly paid skills, and there's nothing "nasty" about that. Nor was there any disadvantage at all in having started at a younger-than-average age.
My plan moving forward for a little while will be to start reading books about trading and to make a daily journal. Il try to learn as much as I can with practice money and hopefully move to real money soon.
Sounds a very good plan, to me. (I was stuck on demo for too long, being unable to open a funded account until I was 18, though in the long run that did me no harm). Good luck and good wishes to you. Shout if you want help, and try not to let the irrelevant forum aspersions put you off.
