"I'd say dancing and skating are two different things, since learning how to skate came much later than dancing and I really sucked at it in the beginning."

[ He has no pride, because he knows it takes forever for him to learn anything completely new. ]

"I probably would have, yeah. I was really stupid like that. I craved feeling useful or helpful towards anybody and I was affection starved. I was neglected by my parents because I was the useless kid who wasn't good at anything that would have helped him get a job and was terrible at academics."