Gotta admit, for all of the weirdness of this place, it made me a much better writer. I had no grasp on English before I got yelled at by prescriptivist dweebs on here.
I started playing on here when I was 12-13. I am now 18. If anything, it gave me a shitton of practice, lol. I distinctly recall one of the better role-players on here back in 2.0 giving me advice on how to use the collective singular properly.