Hello fellow STEM fan :) I struggle with creative, non-structured things too!

Regarding the second part, it's something I've felt at times but as a community of people who struggle to fit in, we can probably do better to be more kind and learn from each other rather than form a mob. This is sort of a new start here on lemmy so I'm hopeful that it can be built into something nicer from the start.

I used rarely participate in the reddit community but decided to try my best here for the above reasons.