I am an only child. I never had to learn to share when I was younger, and I never had to deal with siblings forcing their opinions and desires on me. I could pick my own activities and indulge my introverted nature to my heart's content. It led to lots of uninterrupted reading, lots of time available to learn how to write code (in BASIC and Pascal; this was the 80s, man), and lots of freedom to create whatever I wanted to create. While I'd like to think that I've learned how