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Well, I played recorder in elementary school. I was not the worst in class, but not exactly in the middle either.

I tried guitar, but the only one I had access to was horrible, so I could never really play it, and gave up after it became clear that nothing else was going to be available to me. Which kinda sucked because I had started to figure things out, despite the shitty guitar, but trying to use any of it was just not good.

I guess I could have modified the guitar, but I was like 16 and had no idea that was even possible then, much less how to do it.

Also, my chorus teacher tried to teach me enough piano so that I wouldn't have to sing. That's because I suck at singing lol. I didn't even sign up for the class, I got shunted there after the classes I chose filled up. I had picked art as the primary option, latin as the secondary, and band as the third. Chorus wasn't anything I was into at all, and I knew I couldn't sing worth a damn.

After the teacher discovered that I couldn't sing for shit, she tried to get me moved, and couldn't. Then she tried teaching me some piano enough to bang out some stuff during class, and I was vaguely interested, but you can't learn piano quickly, and that's what would have been needed.

So, I learned to lip sync!

Later on, I picked up some very basic drumming fucking around with friends. Not enough to call myself a drummer, but enough that I can kinda get the job done in a pinch. Enough to keep a beat going for practice or just fucking around, and to recognize I'd need a lot more practice if I ever wanted to be serious with it.

I've figured out that I could probably have learned an instrument, before my arthritis got bad, but that's also why I'm not upset I didn't go hard after any of it; having put in that work and then losing the benefit of it to arthritis? I'd be pissed